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Hello. Being an unemployed college student, not much got done this week. I'd meant to clean up my apartment (its getting pretty messy) and see just how many turnouts I have stashed away in the few boxes of stuff I have here. Also further mental planning on my benchwork and other construction methods was done. When I get home for spring break in a few weeks, I'll retreive more stuff. I have a whole box full of rolling stock that has apparently vanished and I'd like to find it. I did, however, get the idea to visualize things a bit more. I carefully measured the side of a caboose and printed a properly sized 'decal' of the paint scheme I'd draw up. It looked better in the drawing than how it looked when i'd laid the cutout paper side on the caboose. I'm glad I learned this now before painting the somewhat complex paint job only to not really like it as much as I'd thought I would. I also printed out the large AM&LE that goes on the long hood of our locomotives and I was pleased with how it looked. I inadvertantly printed a much larger size the first time and liked how it looked. I think that my SD40-2s will have a smaller version of the AM&LE on the left side of the hood (that has that elevated section of walkway along the hood) and a larger version on the right. Or maybe I won't! Who knows. Later today I might print out a light gray version of the letters, as they're white but my printer can't print white. Any decals I later make would require me to print the letters out. Perhaps a light gray, while printable, will be close enough to white for my purposes.
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