I am looking for HO scale decals for PRSL for a Baldwin AS-16. The engine is a Stewart HO scale model. I have checked online with several manufacturers websites and may have found brand that is usable; Mount Vernon. To use their decals, if they are correct, would require a bit of work. Especially on the numbers. Is there a decal manufacturer that makes PRSL decals, preferabily with the correct number set for a Baldwin AS-16 engine? Paying for custom decals is something I would prefer to avoid if possible. I would also like to avoid printing my own decals.
-Best Regards,
Bill
You might want to search eBay and trains hows, they were produced factory painted and lettered. Trade or sell your existing one to fund buying the factory painted and lettered one.
In the old traditional line they had #6000 and #6013, and in the Executive Line they had #6009 and #6015, with or without sound.
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Captain_Bill12...To use their decals, if they are correct, would require a bit of work. Especially on the numbers....
If the decals are correct, how much work could it be?
Wayne
https://www.mountvernonshops.com/collections/all/pennsylvania-reading-seashore-lines
No diesel decals...
A photo of your Baldwin AS-16 would be helpful.
It looks like the numbers are the same as (or similar too) contemporary PRR numbers.
You might have to mix and match from a couple of sets to do what you want.
Eric
Try Clover House. They list PRSL diesel decals in HO and other scales.
http://cloverhouse.com/Store/product_info.php?cPath=64_65&products_id=1768
Interesting that the photo Eric posted is of 6022. The last 6 AS16's that the PRSL had, 6022-6027, are different than the others in a very subtle way.
They were 6 units canceled by the Reading - so look at the cab roof above the side windows. Good old Reading drip rails!
Randy thank you for the response but that is going in a different direction from what I want to do. I have seen and did have a chance to purchase one of those bowser engines but chose not to. Painting and decaling is something I want to do myself on this project.
Thank you sir,
doctorwayne Captain_Bill12 ...To use their decals, if they are correct, would require a bit of work. Especially on the numbers.... If the decals are correct, how much work could it be? Wayne
Captain_Bill12 ...To use their decals, if they are correct, would require a bit of work. Especially on the numbers....
The decal sheets I found would require me to cut and mount each number individually which is time consuming. It's not easy to get each number straight as opposed to having a group of 4 numbers on one decal that you can move around. It can be a pain when you move 1 decal number and the one next to it moves when you didn't want it to.
Thank you for the reply,
BMMECNYC https://www.mountvernonshops.com/collections/all/pennsylvania-reading-seashore-lines No diesel decals...
They are the sets I was looking at when I wrote the first post.
Eric White It looks like the numbers are the same as (or similar too) contemporary PRR numbers. You might have to mix and match from a couple of sets to do what you want. Eric
Eric,
Thank you for the response. The post below yours for clover house appears to have the decals I need. I do appreciate the picture. Was there a caption with that picture? I am curious where it was taken? The photo I have chosen to replicate the model from is of an AS-16 sitting in Atlantic City, NJ which is where I work. Here is the link to the photo I found.
http://ctr.trains.com/sitefiles/resources/image.aspx?item=%7B2F7F470C-831A-4F42-9AC9-B89ACB43D2B9%7D
Thank you for the pic and response,
DS4-4-1000 Try Clover House. They list PRSL diesel decals in HO and other scales. http://cloverhouse.com/Store/product_info.php?cPath=64_65&products_id=1768
Thank you, this appears to be what I am looking for. I need the buff colored ones as I am modeling it painted in DGLE and not black. They have both the buff and the white letters.
Thank you again for finding them for me...
Bill :)
rrinker Interesting that the photo Eric posted is of 6022. The last 6 AS16's that the PRSL had, 6022-6027, are different than the others in a very subtle way. They were 6 units canceled by the Reading - so look at the cab roof above the side windows. Good old Reading drip rails! --Randy
Thank you,
Captain_Bill12....It's not easy to get each number straight as opposed to having a group of 4 numbers on one decal that you can move around....
I sorta thought that that might be your concern, but there are a couple of methods you can use to aid in decal positioning when what's available isn't exactly what you need.
If you cut the decal close to the image (the best way to hide decal film is to eliminate that which serves no purpose), then you can place a piece of masking tape right on the model as a line to which you can work - it can be either above or below the place where the lettering will be applied. The masking tape should first be placed sticky-side-down on a sheet of glass, and the edge which will be the guide cut-off with a sharp blade. This gives a straight line with none of the dings and nicks that a roll of tape sometimes acquires. If space on the model is limited, the other edge can be trimmed, too. An ideal width would have one edge align with a feature on the surface which is straight and parallel to where the lettering will be placed.You can also place the cut-out but still dry decal pieces atop the the trimmed tape while it's still on the glass, and arrange the numbers or lettering as it should appear, then use a pencil or pen to mark locating lines on the tape. The tape's edge will take care of horizontal alignment, and the marks on the tape will ensure proper spacing of the individual pieces, however many there may be.If you don't wish to use tape, a set of dividers will accomplish the same things, but they need to be used continuously as you work.
I've done over 100 passenger cars and diesel locomotives in this road name, using either dry transfer or decal alphabet sets - every character is individual;
...and the lettering on this little tank car consists of 168 individual pieces of decal...
With the right techniques, and a little patience, you may be surprised by what you can accomplish.
I found the same picture on rrpicturearchives.net and the caption says it was in Camden. The data give in 1976, so it was probably stored dead. There is another picture in the same set a year later that has it in Ft Wayne Indiana, with a bunch of the hood doors open, possibly being dismantled or cannibalized for parts.
Indeed the Camden shot is from the dead line. There's also a picture of 6025 in Camden along with a bunch of E-L RS-3s and other locos.
Here's their whole collection of PRSL AS16's
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locolist.aspx?id=PRSL&mid=1133
I jsut realized the picture I THOUGHT was the same as the one Eric posted isn't - his is 6022 and the one I found is 6024, but the composition is almsot exactly the same. In Eric's picture, there is another AS16 behind it. In the picture of 6024, it's coupled ahead of GP38 #2000.