I saw a movie trailer a half year ago. I wrote an email to the 20th Century Fox movie company with an idea for a Special Collector's Edition with DVD
It would be a great special pack - two models of AWVR AC4400CW #777 i #767 with the DVD. I wrote in my email that Kato have already produced this model so maybe it would be possible to order a special painting from Kato. It could be an extraordinary movie promotion. Unfortunatelly, they didn't send me any reply.
This is the first unit I painted. I do not have pictures of the sister unit (767) which just made it out of the paint shop the other day. I still need to put the white reflective markings on the walkway sides.
People keep poking Athearn to do it, but you can always try printing them on white-back decal paper. The engines are easy enough to find, a prettycommon model in the Ho scale. Actually, all of them are.
-Morgan
9751 was one of the locos painted as the trailing 767 by the way, so in the AWVR scheme with more black in it.
-Tim
I don't know of any decals yet, but I suspect someone will do them (probably a small custom run...you could even get someone to do it for you). It would more likely be a small firm, rather than Microscale.
Interesting thing though...Athearn is releasing an AC4400CW for CP Rail which is painted to match one of the CP units that was used for filming, after it's CP repaint. These 4 locos are unique on CP because while the body was repainted, they left the yellow striping on the plow from the movie!
Check it out:
The real unit:
And then the upcoming Athearn model (due in January):
It's not AWVR, but it's sort of close :P Perhaps Athearn would even think of producing an AWVR AC4400CW some time in the future. Let them know you're interested, they might just think about it. They're doing plenty of other "fantasy schemes", so perhaps that wouldn't be too far off.
I just saw the 'Unstoppable' movie today, and asde from it being a real good movie (in my opinion, at least) I also liked the paint schemes of the locomotives for the fictional Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad.
I think I have seen several photos floating around out there in cyber space, and I was wondering, Are there any decal sheets for any of the locomotives in Unstoppable? Or will I have to make my own?
Do you think there would be any chance that a decal company (i.e. Microscale) would eventually make decals for the movie?
Thank you.