My Great Trains F-40 Project and Superliner Cars

[vsmith]

Matt, I have an airbrush, I just never liked using it, takes 3x longer to clean it up than the time its actually in use. Guess I better find it and figure out how to make the beasty work.

[Anonymous]

Uh, Vic, think you can figure out how to make a paint brush cleaner, if they make paint shakers then I know you can come up with a cleaner design.

Ole Toad

[vsmith]

The Acid Test:
 
How does it look next to the Superliners?







You tell me?

http://www.railpictures.net/images/images2/n/NRPC709Blanco06251988.jpg.26179.jpg

PS this little baby pulled 3 fullsize LGB passenger cars around the layout no trouble

[Anonymous]

Looking great man! I like it!!!!

Toad

[vsmith]

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/F40Paintscheme.jpg

Some paint studies, so far its going to be either scheme 1 or 4, depends how good my airbrush is at pinstriping.

[fontgeek]

As an airbrusher, a teacher of airbrushing, and a computer graphics person, I think you are on the right track in combining the use of decals and airbrushing.
As it was already stated, if you use a transparent decal material, it won't print white, so the trick is either leave a white background where you are going to put your decals, or print on an opaque white decal material. Colors from your printer will only print out and show the way you think they are going to if you print them on white, or place them onto a white background.
The use of the airbrush makes the custom paintjob quick and easy. It also costs you a whole lot less than the $250 that was quoted, and learning the airbrush is actually pretty easy.
I will walk you through any steps you want or need help with, and there are several good forums for airbrushing, so getting support is easy and free.

I look forward to seeing your job completed, but at this point, I would imagine you are more than ready to be done with it. It's looking great so far, and I think the change on the plow was a good one.

[Anonymous]

New progress?

Toad

[vsmith]

Been too cold and wet here to use the airbrush outdoors, so I'm waiting till it warms up a bit there.

[vsmith]

Ok an update, no not paint yet, this is regarding the Superliners, whe I received them the coupler tongues had been cut off of each of them so I had to think a little bit about how to fix them, finally I tried an idea,  replacing the tongue with a brass strip, held in place with pop rivets so the top is flush and wont scrape the car body, and I added the Hook and loop coupler the same way, its soft metal rivets and can be cut off with snips if needed. Wheels are small diameter B'mann, I want to get some Gary Raymond wheels but I'm aa bit strapped for cash right now. So any way heres a short video of the set being run on the indoor layout, the sight of these cars going around my R1 curves is likely to make all the scale/prototype people eyes bleed, but I figure if it can run on this torture track it will run on anything!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8iogWhacsc

Pics of the coupler

[dwbeckett]

Neet vidio, so when do we see the 0-6-0 with slope back tender vidio

Dave

[vsmith]

As soon as I do the wiring...

Been a bit occupied, did this set of cars this last weekend, then we had a horrendous wind storm here on Sunday night, 50-60mph gusts, got 2 hrs sleep that night (hard to sleep when the wind roars like large waves breaking right outide yer window) found Monday AM part of my back fence blown down, so spent part of AM reparing that, late to work, spent day as zombie, came home to sleep, and meet accountant today for taxes, so I've been a tad bit busy.

[vsmith]

Finished this one off a short while ago, finally got around to pics of it

Decided to do with something that would look better pulling my Superliners, looks nice to me, anyway another one off the bench.

[Anonymous]

vsmith

As soon as I do the wiring...

Been a bit occupied, did this set of cars this last weekend, then we had a horrendous wind storm here on Sunday night, 50-60mph gusts, got 2 hrs sleep that night (hard to sleep when the wind roars like large waves breaking right outide yer window) found Monday AM part of my back fence blown down, so spent part of AM reparing that, late to work, spent day as zombie, came home to sleep, and meet accountant today for taxes, so I've been a tad bit busy.

50 - 60....hmmm would be like a Tropicial Storm or regular rain storm here bro.

Have 180 +/- for about 8 hours is a CAT 2.

Nice looking loco!!!!!

Toad