Very excitied today when Maritime Hobbies & Crafts told me that my custom base-painted locomotives and boxcars were ready for the next painting phase. I contract this work out to an experienced model train painter. The two locomotives are Athearn Genesis - SD75I and SD70M. The three boxcars are Atlas Master Line NSC 5277 PD Box Cars. All five units were stripped and repainted in Nato Black.
Now I can design the remainder of the paint scheme including company logo. More rolling stock (ore hoppers, tankers, well cars) and smaller switchers will be base painted soon.
These two BLI Premium Cryogenic Tank Cars will be seen regularly on the Walton Rock & Mineral Railroad tracks. They are beautifully detailed and will not be modified.
Did a general Google search on locomotive numbering and found the old thread on this topic. Seems some of my questions concerning numbering have already been answered here. My freelance Walton Rock & Mineral Railway will have the unique, at least according to Rail Serve, reporting mark WRMR. I will probably use a numbering scheme based on the manufacturer of the unit (there will be less than 9), DC (0) or DCC (1), class (9 or less loco types), and sequential number of unit within that class (one digit). The cars will always have DC (0), class will have two digits, and a fifth and sixth digit that will be unique sequential numbers within the class.
For example, my Athearn (1), DC (0), SD75I (0), and first in this class (1) will be designated as follows: WRMR 1001. The first box car will be WRMR 200101 as follows: Atlas (2), DC (0), 50' NSC 5277 PD (01), sequential number in this class (01).
Love to hear your suggestions on this scheme to make it better.
Question for those of you who install people in your locomotives. How many crew would you put in this cab with seating for three?
BTW, I am going to paint this interior - don't like this pinkish colour.
The second layer of the paint scheme will be designed on a technical drawing. The Nato Black represents Walton shale. The cab will feature a layer of off-white gypsum with the upper part of the cab a soil-brown overburden such as found at Walton quarries. A geology hammer will be angled at the sloped gypsum rock face.
Three crew members will be installed in the cab: engineer, conductor and brakeman. The seats will be painted black, the floor dark grey, and the console, walls and ceiling will be beige. After my field trip this morning, I'll pick up the paints I need. One of the hobby shop staff may also have some seated HO people for me from his personal collection.
I haven't been idle since my last post on this topic. I have been doing my research on painting and weathering model trains. Got some useful tips from the staff at Maritime Hobbies & Crafts in Halifax. I picked up the paints that I need for my WRMR scheme, a pack of brushes, and a basic air spray kit. A few months ago I stripped my first locomotive shell and will now use it to practice my scheme.
I can barely hold a paint brush steady because of my advanced arthritis in my hands but I am going to give it my best shot over the next few days.
Wow. Not only was that easy to do, it was fun. Love the air brush - we are going to get along well!
Tonight I'll be stripping down some of the company's containers - these five to start with. They will be painted in WRMR colour scheme.
Although you can't see it when assembled, the insides of each train are being as carefully painted as the outsides. The HO people appreciate it. Air-brushed the insides of this locomotive with NATO black and then painted the seats flat black. Applied primer to part of the cab exterior and the inside consoles so I can paint them Earth brown by the weekend. Also ordered 5 bags of truck drivers - 150 figures in total.
While entering new articles into my database from the bound volumes of MR and RMC that I acquired yesterday, I came across two excellent articles on the FL-9 similar to the one I just painted NATO black.
(1) New Haven's FL-9 Third-rail Diesels, Al Kamm, Model Railroader 28(8), August 1961, pp. 34-35.
(2) Building the FL-9 Diesel, Al Kamm, Model Railroader 28(8), August 1961, pp. 36-41.
Lots of drawings and great ideas, and although the articles are about 56 years old they are still valuable, at least to me!
Got an email from Photobucket yesterday basically saying they don't like me using their site to only post pictures here on MR. You can see what they did below. LOL
Just read over Photobucket's third party hosting terms. To upgrade for this they want $59.99/year Minimum, and $399.99/year for the P500 in their box that shows up here. Not going to happen. So I'll limit future posts to text only.