Hoople wrote: Jeff: HOW COULD YOU!!! Violated a perfectly good SP unit! I'm joking, it looks good. Although I'd have kept it in SP colors... But thats me.
Jeff: HOW COULD YOU!!! Violated a perfectly good SP unit! I'm joking, it looks good. Although I'd have kept it in SP colors... But thats me.
And where are your pics? I'd like to see anything you have....
I like to do something a little different.
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Teditor
My fictional Pennsylvania coal hauler...
SD40's by Kato. No, I didn't dull coat it... the WM had a wash rack, and they weren't afraid to use it!
Atlas SD35... fortunately, I painted mine with the one number (out of 5) that they haven't produced!
Chopper!
Atlas VO-1000. This turned out very nicely... then I decided to weather it with a hammer... Oh well, lesson learned. Washes are better than spray any day.
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Custom Painted.........(Not by me I'm not brave enough yet!)
GAPPLEG wrote:innocent_gentleman love all those SP/SSW units nice looking paint jobs. very clean. Long live the SP
Thank you... I did my best... Started with 5 undec. Geep E's and then repainted 6 SD40T-2's. Bought two undec GP38-2's and did them next. I have five RPP SD9E's next on my list to do.
8500HPGASTURBINE wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Here are some of mine. What was an undecorated Athearn SD40-2 became KCS 666. It still needs a little work.An undecorated Athearn GP38-2 became Midland Gulf Railways #4003These two Proto 2000 E7's are both repaints. The loco on the left was Originally in B&O paint. It's now in the KCS black scheme. Note that the paint is slightly faded. The loco on the right was originally in SP paint. It's now in the KCS white scheme. Note the rust on the pilot. Jeff, Whay color & type of paint did you use for that KCS engine? Also what decal set.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Here are some of mine. What was an undecorated Athearn SD40-2 became KCS 666. It still needs a little work.An undecorated Athearn GP38-2 became Midland Gulf Railways #4003These two Proto 2000 E7's are both repaints. The loco on the left was Originally in B&O paint. It's now in the KCS black scheme. Note that the paint is slightly faded. The loco on the right was originally in SP paint. It's now in the KCS white scheme. Note the rust on the pilot.
Here are some of mine. What was an undecorated Athearn SD40-2 became KCS 666. It still needs a little work.
An undecorated Athearn GP38-2 became Midland Gulf Railways #4003
These two Proto 2000 E7's are both repaints. The loco on the left was Originally in B&O paint. It's now in the KCS black scheme. Note that the paint is slightly faded. The loco on the right was originally in SP paint. It's now in the KCS white scheme. Note the rust on the pilot.
Jeff,
Whay color & type of paint did you use for that KCS engine? Also what decal set.
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The bicentennial was done by someone else but the traditional lightning is mine.
A couple of D&H units i have done a while ago.
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Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
Jay
C-415 Build: https://imageshack.com/a/tShC/1
Other builds: https://imageshack.com/my/albums
Bachmann Consolidation:
Athearn Mikado (done for a friend):
Van Hobbies CNR 2-8-2 (done for a friend):
Bachmann USRA Light Mountain:
Athearn Mikado:
Athearn (modified) NW-2:
Athearn (modified) SW1200RS:
Atlas C-425:
Model Power (modified) FPA-4:
Proto2000 (modified) 0-8-0
Wayne
Here are several did this past year when I got my first airbrush. Sorry for the photo quality.
Chad - I recognize the BethSteel black n' yellow anywhere!
Jerry - nice scheme on the TMI locos
Here's a shot of a pair of SD38-2's in my freelance scheme, the Iron Belt:
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
This is a Stewart VO-1000 I painted up in the SP orange and black:
These are my shortline locos: RS-3 , 44 tonner , and A U-18b I made back in the late 70's by cutting down a U-30b:
did these with an airbrush and microscale decals...chuck
This is my weathered and painted train, The cab forward a repaint to the club.
One car weathered up.
I have ongoing work like painting my South Shore little joe, but needs a rework.
Here's mine. It's painted for the CA&S, my freelanced line, and is unfinished until I get a spray booth or warm weather comes.
In official RR colors:
if the Official colors were "rust and grime"
Have fun with your trains
My old KCS 666 was looking pretty tired. I recently did a new one from an Athearn Blue Box kit.
From this -
To this in three days.
Here's a shot of My 55' Mckeen Motorcar,A brass Ken Kidder model,I painted and lettered this for the Great western Rwy.
And Here's a Great Western diesel I also painted and lettered for the GW..
And Here's a shot of GW #90 an Empire Midland brass import.I painted and lettered it also.
C&HV.
Huron River
R.J.Corman
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
From the time that I started this thread to now I have done 3 engines that most of you have seen but I'm going to post them again.
Please lets keep this thread going with more photos.
--Zak Gardner
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MrKLUKE wrote: SFRAILFAN!Hello and THANKS! Hey, I did experiment once with a friend's inexpensive Testors airbrush and he also used those cans of air. Ugh. I did NOT like the cans of air. They worked good for awhile but the pressure seemed inconsistent. He was a novice as well so maybe we were doing it wrong. Anyway, this is all conversation for a different thread. When it gets closer, I'll seek advice on another topic but I did decide that I'm not getting an airbrush until I can afford a quality brand along with a real good compressor. Speaking of BN "paint peelers", there are also some neat blue MRL covered hoppers with BN's Cascade Green coming through! Very wild looking freight cars... Jeff (MrKLUKE)
SFRAILFAN!
Hello and THANKS! Hey, I did experiment once with a friend's inexpensive Testors airbrush and he also used those cans of air. Ugh. I did NOT like the cans of air. They worked good for awhile but the pressure seemed inconsistent. He was a novice as well so maybe we were doing it wrong. Anyway, this is all conversation for a different thread. When it gets closer, I'll seek advice on another topic but I did decide that I'm not getting an airbrush until I can afford a quality brand along with a real good compressor. Speaking of BN "paint peelers", there are also some neat blue MRL covered hoppers with BN's Cascade Green coming through! Very wild looking freight cars...
Jeff (MrKLUKE)
Before the days of me getting a nice little airbrush set, I used to use a cheap-o airbrush and the canned air. I had read somewhere that if you keep the canned air in a container with room-temp water, it'll reduce the loss of pressure while airbrushing. As you use the air from the can , the can gets cold and it causes the pressure to fall. The water absorbs the coldness from the can and helps regulate the can temp. Eventually you'll need to "refresh" the water since the water will get cold, but you might run out of canned air before this happens. One of the problems with doing this is that while you're airbrushing, you'll have a tub of water next to you with your compressed air submerged in it. This tip did seem to help though.
This is what I use now (http://www.rcslot.com/pc-radio-control-slot-cars/TES9169.html). So far it's given me good results and I like how easy it is to operate and clean. I've seen them at Wal-Mart, but I don't remember the price, I got mine as a gift anyhow.
TONY
"If we never take the time, how can we ever have the time." - Merovingian (Matrix Reloaded)
My only real custom paint job so far has been these two GP15s, painted for a shortline in Northern Wisconsin:
1500:
1501:
The pair:
I did a couple other units a few years ago too, but they aren't worth posting, as they weren't very good. I now consider them my "practice" units....
I always like seeing others' custom paint jobs, so this thread is really neat! I only hope I can do paint jobs that are as good as some of the ones posted here someday...
Noah
I did the same thing with my brother's Testors cheep airbrush that attached to a can. He gave it to me to try and it was just as good as a rattle can. So I forked out the cash and bought one at the LHS. What a good investment! It was easy for me since I already had a pancake compressor from Porter Cable that I used for work.
I've seen those MRL Hoppers first hand that have the green coming through when I lived in Bozeman Montana going to school up there. I plan on modeling them when I get good.