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You are indeed fortunate to model the Q. You saved yourself some worry with the diaphragm color as they didn't have any. A great source besides the Mike Spoor and George Spier Morning Sun books is the Burlington Route Historical society's F-Unit issue. It is a smaller issue and can be had from the society via the web or snail mail. Most roads removed them along with skirts and coupler covers into the 60's as it was a maintenance issue. If you want to detail a Burlington motor, don't forget the grabs up the fireman's side of the cab, the foot ledge above the lowest rows of rivets, the wagon wheel antenae, backup headlight and the Deail associates F Unit underframe set. The bigger issue is, if you are painting them, what color is greyback?? Most photos show an Off-White, the paint dagram shows "Aluminum". They were neither Bright Silver or Bright White. The Genisis color looks about right to me. For matching color I've used Modelflex "Antique White" which is NOT the same as Floquil's color (too green). The heartache is using Microscale's revised decal set. I was told that the Red printing ink on these sets are bad and that explains why I went through 8 sets of decals before I gave up and stripped my FTs again. Find an original set or Champ's.
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