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How about: Lets see your custom paint jobs

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Posted by steamage on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:20 AM
I painted the Baldwin AS616 and the caboose about 6 years ago. Nowadays, I paint my SP passenger car fleet.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:17 AM
 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 #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.

Equipment primer gray. I print my own decals on MSPaint. The KCS logo is done on text size 36 or 48 depending on what kind of loco I'm working on. The cab numbers are size 18 and the small text is size 6. I usually Arial font.

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Posted by innocent_gentleman on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:37 PM

 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. 

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Posted by Hudson on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:24 PM

Custom Painted.........(Not by me  I'm not brave enough yet!)

 

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Posted by wm3798 on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:14 PM

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 

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Posted by Teditor on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:54 PM

I like to do something a little different.

N scale Kato P42, custom decal.Kato N Scale P42 with custom decals by Teditor" border="0" />

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Posted by Driline on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:29 PM
 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.

And where are your pics? I'd like to see anything you have....Wink [;)]

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