Finally! pics of my custom painted engine

[dharmon]

Really nice job Noah. You did good work.

[Noah Hofrichter]

James, Right now I'm no where near being done with my project. Now that school's out I should be able to finnish it by late June or mid July. Then I want to get it painted and write the page before the deadline.

pmsteamman, I don't think I'll wheather this one both because it was my first one and because the prototype looks brand new as well. To see a pic of the prototype go to the website in my sig. It'll be there for a couple more days. I might wheather the grills with a little black paint, as well as make fuel wash on the gas tank, but..... we'll see.

Noah

[Anonymous]

Man, I wish I had the time/skill to be able to do custom jobs like this one!!! I don't trust my skill enough to even attempt some cheap boxcar or anything.

[pmsteamman]

Noah great job on the paint job! Are you going to weather the equipment also?

[Anonymous]

You did great Noah, Nice job. When can we see your next project?

James

[Anonymous]

[tup][tup]Two thumbs up, Noah. Well done![:D]

[Noah Hofrichter]

Lupo,

No I didn't. I was in the planning stages of making decals though once I was told at my LHS that they couldn't get any. Then I won one at the contest, and so the idea stopped. I've got the decals still stored on my computer, if I ever need them.

Noah

[Noah Hofrichter]

Thanks to all of you. Well, I'll see if I can remember what I did, so here goes. I started with an undecorated engine in this case, but I've had pretty good results using 91% rubbing alcohal to stripp models, on the suggestion of another thread here. I'm pretty sure I put an undercoat of grey on there,from walmart, the 99cent kind, so the red would be good and bright. Then I sprayed Testors gloss red spray paint on it. I applied the decals From scale rail graphics, using Walthers micro set like thing. Then I gave it a coat of tesors dullcoat. Warning never use krylon cleat coat on decals. It will make the decals shrivle up and you will have to do it all over again. I used this the first time and ended up haveing to do the whole thing again.[:(]

And as for the ARK, Jim, I don't know if I'll do that right away, but I might do that someday still.[:D]

Noah

[Anonymous]

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[lupo]

[tup]
Looks great !
did you do the boxcar as well?

[AggroJones]

Nice job!

[Anonymous]

Very excellent, indeed!!!!!!!!!! Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Ray Marinaccio

Nice paint job Noah. One to be proud of.
Looking forward to seeing more.[tup]

I so totally agree. [:)] [:D]

Great Job. [:D]

Now how about the ARK? [;)] [:p] [:)]

[Anonymous]

Nice paint job Noah. One to be proud of.
Looking forward to seeing more.[tup]

[philnrunt]

That is a very ,very sharp job. Both items look great![^][^][^]

[Anonymous]

Looks awsome.

Can you do a couple CP golden beavers for us to see? [;)]

[AntonioFP45]

Noah,

That paint job is "Notch 8"! Way to go!

One thing; will share with us specifically the procedure you used to paint your model
(what did you strip the old finish with, did you use primer, what air brush, etc.)

A number of modelers here that already paint or are newbies to painting would benefit from the sharing of painting techniques as they vary but the result is what counts!

Thanks and Cheers!

[Eriediamond]

Nice job, Noah. Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous]

Noah, that loco so totaly rocks ![8D][8D][8D] how about some pics of your layout !

[Anonymous]

Very nice looking engine!

I really need to get an airbrush myself.

[Anonymous]

Nice! Can't wait to get my new airbrush out!

[Anonymous]

Awesome dude!! NICE JOB!!

[Noah Hofrichter]

Thanks to Nora (from the trains forums) I now have pictures of My custom Painted WSOR engine to post.



This one is a close up of just the engine.



This one is with the model of the MR 70th car. Why I did this, I don't know, I just thought it looked cool.

Now for the stats:

It's an athearn GP38 engine.

I painted it using testors red paint.

I used decals from Scale Rail Graphics, at www.scalerailgraphics.com

Hope you like them![:D]

Noah