Well I had a busy morning followed by a slow afternoon. My back and hips were hurting so bad I could hardly get up so I just sat here most of the afternoon trying to move as little as possible. I don't hurt so much now but the back is still being a problem. It's time for me to sign off now. See y'all tomorrow.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Think I might be becoming a Motely Crue fan. Just got "Kickstart My Heart". Then again, I do like Aerosmith, Queen, Bon Jovi, Guns 'n Roses and so on, so I think it was just a matter of time.
Night everyone.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Lehigh Valley 2089 ...Motley Crue...Aerosmith, Queen, Bon Jovi, Guns 'n Roses...
...Motley Crue...Aerosmith, Queen, Bon Jovi, Guns 'n Roses...
Throw in a little KISS, Wasp, and Iron Maiden and that would be the makings of a great play list!
Happy Modeling!
Don.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly."
Add Duke,Basie,Ella,Sara,Django,Benny,Artie,Kenton,Clark Terry.
Happy Fathers Day to y'all.
Prayers and Blessings,
Flip
Good (Late) Evening, Diners,
Sorry for my extended absence from keeping up on things in here. Combination of w**k schedule (wacky), trying to get things lined out so I can go to an Apple II conference in July (KFest, aka KansasFest) (which I've thought about attending for several years, but the time, funds and transportation haven't w**ked out previously. Oh yeah, and a certain musical female in the general KC, MO area. We're looking to meet on the Sunday that the conference ends, and I'll get a motel for me (only) for that night, so we can visit/talk longer on Sunday (as well as attend her church together). We're getting along well now on emails and phone calls, so so far, so good
On the MRR front, I have made a little more progress on the grain elevator I think I mentioned before (waaaaayyyy back the last time I was in here). Hopefully, all of you Diners (and I see a new name or few, so to the new folks!) are not coming down with anything new in the health area. for those I recall, and I'll get my list updated tomorrow for those with ongoing or new things happening.
A good night to all, and a good rest as well.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau (currently...)
Lehigh Valley 2089 Burlington Northern #24whenever I run trains anymore there's always a cloud of guilt hanging around. at this point I'm not sure what's keeping me from putting them away until a better time, stubbornness, or the need for something familiar that I can escape to. I think it's stubbornness. Maybe the Force is responsible somehow................................. Good evening. Well, the Mogul is now finally decorated for the BT&S. However, there was a small snag with it. When blotting the decals on one side of the tender shell, two of the decals pulled up and tore themselves apart. To make things worse for me, the last & decal for the size I was using was one of those used. However, I just used one of the smaller decals from another set. Even though it doesn't look great, it gives the impression that the loco had an older paint scheme on it, so it kinda worked out. Also got decals on one of the cabooses today and also got weathering on a freight car done.
Burlington Northern #24whenever I run trains anymore there's always a cloud of guilt hanging around. at this point I'm not sure what's keeping me from putting them away until a better time, stubbornness, or the need for something familiar that I can escape to. I think it's stubbornness.
Maybe the Force is responsible somehow.................................
Good evening.
Well, the Mogul is now finally decorated for the BT&S. However, there was a small snag with it. When blotting the decals on one side of the tender shell, two of the decals pulled up and tore themselves apart. To make things worse for me, the last & decal for the size I was using was one of those used. However, I just used one of the smaller decals from another set. Even though it doesn't look great, it gives the impression that the loco had an older paint scheme on it, so it kinda worked out.
Also got decals on one of the cabooses today and also got weathering on a freight car done.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD SUNDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Sunday, June 16th,2013!!!
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!
I will light the prayer candles at 9 am for those in need...
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
REDNECK:
"You might be a redneck, if you...."
One variant:
To be a redneck is not because anger makes your neck red. The term comes from the South and refers to anyone who works outdoors, especially in the farm fields, where after a while sun exposure gives one a very red neck {from bending over in the fields as many wore hats that sheltered their faces but left them all with red necks}. After years of having sun-burned necks, skin just got darker, reddish and more crusty. So today the term, although oringinally used for Southern farmers, can be another who works outdoors rather than in an office.
{Along this line, there is also a term called a "farmer's tan" which means one has a sun tan from your elbows down, since being outdoors in a T-shirt covers the rest of your body. It's a common phrase in California to tease outsiders, especially those from the Midwest. They have a "farmer's tan" when in California people pride themselves on having overall tans}.
ANOTHER VARIANT:
Another version states that the term originated in the coal mines of Kentucky and West Virginia at The Battle of Blair Mountain, which was the largest civil uprising in US history. In 1921 West Verginia miners clashed with lawmen and hired hands of the coal companies when they tried to stop the miners from forming a coal miner's union. Approximately, 13,000 miners with red bandanas tied around their necks, to identify them as a separate group from the others, marched on Logan county. This uprising helped showcase the conditions faced by the minors and helped shape the way unions operated. It also turned union tactics into political battles to get a new law on the side of labor. All those miners, with red bandanas on their necks, is said to be the origin of "red necks."
Wiki defines "redneck" as thus:
Redneck is a derogatory slang term used in reference to poor, uneducated white farmers, especially from the southern US. It is similar in meaning to cracker (especially regarding Georgia and Florida),hilbilly {patrticularly regarding Apalachia and the Ozarks}, and white trash {but without the last term's suggestions of immorality}.
In recent decades, the term has expanded its meaning to refer to bigoted, loutish reactionaries who are opposed to modern ways, and has often been used to attack white Southern conservatives. The term is used broadly to degrade working class and rural whites that are perceived by urban progressives to be insufficiently liberal. At the same time, some Southern whites have reclaimed the word, using it with pride and defiance as a self-identifier.
WIKI agrees with BOTH of the above stories thusly:
The term characterized farmers as having a red neck caused by sunburn from hours in the sun working in the fields. A citation from 1893 provides a definition as "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts...men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks".
By 1900, "rednecks" was in common use to designate the political factions inside the Democratic Party comprising poor white farmers in the South. The same group was also often called the "wool hat boys" (for they opposed the rich men, who wore expensive silk hats). A newspaper notice in Mississippi in August 1891 called on rednecks to rally at the polls at the upcoming primary election.
By 1910, the political supporters of the Mississippi Democratic Party politician James K Vardaman- primarily poor white farmers- began to describe themselves proudly as "rednecks," even to the point of wearing red neckerchiefs to political rallies and picnics.
By the 1970s, the term had turned into offensive slang and had expanded its meaning to mean bigoted, loutish and opposed to modern ways, and was often used as a term to attack Southern white conservatives and racists.
and as thusly also:
The UMW {United Mine Workers Of America}, and rival miners' unions appropriated both the term redneck and its literal manifestation, the red bandana, in order to build multiracial unions of white, black, and immigrant miners in the strike-ridden coalfields of northern and central Appalachia between 1912 and 1936. The origin of redneck to mean "a union man" or "a striker" remains uncertain, but according to linguist David W. Maurer, the former definition of the word probably dates at least to the 1910s, if not earlier. The use of redneck to designate "a union member" was especially popular during the 1920s and 1930s in the coal-producing regions of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania, where the word came to be specifically applied to a miner who belonged to a union.
The term can be found throughout McAllister Coleman and Stephen Raushenbush's 1936 socialist proletarian novel, Red Neck, which recounts the story of a charismatic union leader named Dave Houston and an unsuccessful strike by his fellow union miners in the fictional coalfield town of Laurel, PA. The word's varied usage can be seen in the following two examples from the book. "I'm not much to be proud of," Houston admits to his admiring girlfriend Madge in one scene. "I'm just a red necked miner like the rest." In another scene, a police captain curses Houston as a "God-damned red neck" during a fruitless jailhouse interrogation, before savagely beating him with a sawed-off chair-leg.
The earliest printed uses of the word red-neck in a coal-mining context date from the 1912-1913 Paint and Cabin Creeks strike in southern West Virginia and from the1913-1914 Trinidad District strike in southern Colorado. It is not known where the term originated. It originated as a negative epithet. Apparently, coal operators, company guards, non-union miners, and strikebreakers were among the first to use the term "redneck" in a labor context when they derided union miners with the slur. According to industrial folklorist George Korson, non-union miners derisively called strikers "rednecks" in the Appalachian coalfields. The best explanation of redneck to mean "union man" is that the word refers to the red handkerchiefs {Bandanas} that striking union coal miners in both southern West Virginia and southern Colorado often wore around their necks or arms as a part of their informal uniform.
I myself, consider myself to a be a redneck, as my maternal family is from the coal mining hills of Kentucky. So does MOH, as MOH is of paternal W VA coal mining descent. SO I-we- am-are officially of redneck descent and dang it if we ain't proud!! Many rednecks, and their descendants are proud to stand up and be counted!
Have a GREAT Father's day!!!
{even if you are not a dad}
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Morning guys,
Another rainy day here. I will take it as I bet July-August will be hot and very dry. My grass is nice and thick and green too. Speaking of that I had to lend my lawnmower to my parents yesterday after there old push mower gave up. I'm going over there today for dinner so if the rain lets up I will take a look at it also. My mom also has my dremel which I need back for a few projects, jeesh everybody has my tools except me,lol
I have been trying to come up with a way to make some more coal loads. I have used the foam carving and the florist foam carving as base to put cal and stone loads on but I find it to be very messy to work with. If I had a handsaw it would make cutting the foam a bit easier. I also use the woodland scenic coal which is okay but I would love to use real coal but I have no idea as to where I could get a couple pieces of coal around here as we aren't exactly in coal country in these parts.
Happy Fathers Day!!
Boy, our diner was just full today..all of 4 couples showed up! lol!!
Today is a dull drab rainy kinda day here...but muggy...oy....
Need to pick up a few things for the big dinner tonight...yay...anyways..have a great day!!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and the Sunday Breakfast Buffet please, thank you.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 83. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Rained just enough yesterday and at just the right times to keep me from mowing. Maybe today huh?
Happy Fathers Day to all the Fathers, both natural, adoptive and those with children on the stairs.
Don’t know what I’ll do today. I know WHAT I want to do but will I? Probably eat out at a place of my choice. That’s usually my gift for all occasions where it’s my alleged day. Birthday, Fathers Day, there’s another one in there too it seems. I get to choose. Of course I get to pay as well, AND I get to pay for any straphangers who manage to weasel in to help celebrate my being able to choose too. This joy is all mine brotha...don't try and take it. “Wasn’t that nice of them to take time to be here?” …..”Well YAH! A free meal for 5….you bet they’d be here!” Mention pay their own way and they politely pass by saying they’ll let us celebrate together just the two of us. Some time alone. How thoughtful. Just me Brenda and that phone they call every 10 minutes.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Happy Fathers' Day, everyone! Even if you're not a dad yourself, you've got one. Give him a call, or remember him fondly today.
fec153Add Duke,Basie,Ella,Sara,Django,Benny,Artie,Kenton,Clark Terry
Our cable system has music channels, and I usually put on the Golden Oldies channel. It's the only place I have for real oldies - 50s and 60s. The radio thinks "classic" is anything more than a few years old. I sure wish there was a Big Band channel. Oldies are fine for running Transition Era, but when I've got a steamer making the rounds with a string of coaches, well, there's nothing that fits better than the Duke, the Count and Glenn Miller.
I think I'll do some decaling today. (Ha! Spell Check doesn't like "decaling." It thinks it should be "decaying." Well, I'll probably do a bit of that today, too, at my age.)
And how about them Bruins?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good morning. Happy Father's day!
Not sure what I'm going to be doing today. Likely just staying out of the rain.
Good morning. It's 80° with 86% humidity. Heat index is 85°. The high will be 95°.This morning I'm getting the rest of the cars and locos off the tracks so I can get them out of the way. There's thirty cars to box up and thirteen locos to put up. There are four other cars that have to be boxed up for a trip to their new home. So it looks like I'll be busy today.
Good morning all and HAPPY FATHERS DAY!
Cloudy day with rain threatening.
Kids spoiled me today with breakfast, pot of coffee and a nice coffee table style book called Rails Across Canada (the story of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways).
Just spent the last hour watching a B-29 Superfortress fly around the house with my Son. What a nice sight and sound and made me think of my late Grandfather, a World War II Air Force veteran.
Have a great day all and HAPPY MODELING!
Morning All,
Happy Fathers Day.
Not much planned today. Later the family is coming over for supper. Like Todd when we go out as a group MOH and I always seem to end up paying for everyone. On the other hand when he have everybody over for a family get together MOH does 95% of the work and I do 5% grilling. Based on this MOH came up with a great suggestion which we are doing this time. Each family group (3) will bring a main dish and side dish. MOH will also make rolls and a dessert so it will be like a pot luck. The main dishes will be Fried Chicken (Dad's favorite), Swiss Steak (my favorite), and prime rib (Son In Laws favorite).
Looks like the flooring job is on upstairs, but Lowes has to change some things in the estimate of materials. We will probably put it down ourselves (wood laminate).
Hope everybody has a great day and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Currently it is 62 with an expected high of 86 under sunny skies.
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to current one's and soon to be.
My daughters will be coming over late this afternoon to take me for Sushi, and they will pay. Such good girls. Son being in Australia, will probably e-mail or text later in the day.
Layout front, completed both loops with the turnouts in place for some industries and a future yard. Ran a short passenger train around one loop, and a 13 car freight around the other, crossovers work well, but almost had a cornfield meet, as I forgot to switch the freight to the other loop. I only have six engines, so I will make up a few more trains and run several to make sure track w**k is really OK before doing more scenery and ballasting the track.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
HAPPY FATHERS DAY!
Otto .... Happy late birthday.
Galaxy .... Interesting about the word "Redneck" ..... I don't think Wiki is correct to say it is derogatory. Maybe in the past it was, but not now. Now it means people living in rural or non-urban areas of the South. Typically they are working class people.
Try another idiom: " The proof is in the pudding".....
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
TODD- Every family has a "PATSY".
Mr. G - Where did "PATSY" Come from???
Heartland Division CB&Q HAPPY FATHERS DAY! Otto .... Happy late birthday. Galaxy .... Interesting about the word "Redneck" ..... I don't think Wiki is correct to say it is derogatory. Maybe in the past it was, but not now. Now it means people living in rural or non-urban areas of the South. Typically they are working class people. Try another idiom: " The proof is in the pudding".....
Sometimes when I do my morning ritual, I leave out a few parts not "deemed necessary" to the explanation of the HISTORY of a word ro phrase, as I can take up a whole posting page on some explanations, so I have to chop chop chop sometimes. AS I said, I am proud to be a redneck...at least of redneck descent!
BUT:
This is what Wiki has to say about the late 20th/21st century usages of the word "redneck':
"Late 20th century writers Edward Abbey and Dave Foreman use "redneck" as a political call to mobilize poor rural white Southerners. "In Defense of the Redneck" was a popular essay by Ed Abbey. One popular early Earth First! bumper sticker was "Rednecks for Wilderness". Murray Bookchin, an urban leftist and social ecologist, objected strongly to Earth First!'s use of the term as "at the very least, insensitive".
But many members of the Southern community have proudly embraced the term as a self-identifier. Among those who dispute that the term is disparaging, Canadian Paul Brandt, a self-identified redneck, says that primarily the term indicates independence."
And of course, we know how "famous" a certain group of comedians have made the term "redneck"!!
Look for tomorrow mroning for the "proof of the pudding is in the eating"...the ORIGIN of the more commonly known to us phrase of "the proof is in hte pudding".!
-G
fec153 TODD- Every family has a "PATSY". Mr. G - Where did "PATSY" Come from??? Flip
PATSY {n.} "fall guy, victim of a deception," 1903, of uncertain origin, possibly an alteration of Italian pazzo "madman" , or south Italian dialectal paccio "fool." Another theory traces it to Patsy Bolivar, character created by Billy B. Van in an 1890s vaudeville skit who was blamed whenever anything went wrong.
"Poor Rogers," Vincent said, still smiling, "he is always the 'Patsy Bolivar' of the school." "Yes," Frank answered, "if there are any mistakes to be made or trouble to fall into, Rogers seems to be always the victim." ["Anthony Yorke," "A College Boy," 1899]
Happy Father's Day, everybody! Janie, I'll have a slice of that devils' food cake, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of it, and a Santa Fe mug of coffee for washing it down (or warshing it, depending on anyone's dialect...)
Heartland Division CB&Q Galaxy .... Interesting about the word "Redneck" ..... I don't think Wiki is correct to say it is derogatory. Maybe in the past it was, but not now. Now it means people living in rural or non-urban areas of the South. Typically they are working class people.
Hey Garry, keep in mind that I heard someone (I think it was on a morning show out of the East Coast) refer to the middle of the country (that is, anything between the coasts) as "flyover country"... Maybe Galaxy could look up "flyover country"?
As for "redneck" - based on various emails I see about "redneck" gadgets, I would associate the words "resourceful", or "imaginative", or "creative minds" with the term "redneck". But that's just my ...
On my grain elevator project (Farmers Co-operative kit), I have the four base walls together, and bought some clear plastic yesterday to go in place of the usually-too-thick Walthers clear plastic windows for the "glass". I'm still not sure on the color of the walls. Have them in "Country Red" (that's the crafts company's name for the color of crafts acrylic paint), but I want more of a "kinda washed out red from sitting in the sun for years and years" kind of almost-red color. Anybody have any suggestions how to do that (on my simple level)?
I'll be w**king on my cake and ice cream at the corner booth for now. How's everyone else been doing?
[Edit]: Welp, looks like I've got the afternoon/dinner tab, Janie. Okay, here's my card... Anybody want a free RBF on my tab? And dessert? ...and dinner? (Man, look at 'em pourin' in now!)
Blessings,
Jim in Cape G.
JimRCGMOI want more of a "kinda washed out red from sitting in the sun for years and years" kind of almost-red color. Anybody have any suggestions how to do that (on my simple level)?
I had a red truck once that sat in the sun for years and it turned into kind of a pinkish color. Don't know if that helps Jim.
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
chochowillie JimRCGMOI want more of a "kinda washed out red from sitting in the sun for years and years" kind of almost-red color. Anybody have any suggestions how to do that (on my simple level)? I had a red truck once that sat in the sun for years and it turned into kind of a pinkish color. Don't know if that helps Jim. Dennis
Thanks, Dennis - I'm thinking a stage on that color before it gets kinda pink, but closer to where the red isn't as saturated but is starting to look "dull" (if I can borrow Barry's favorite weather word...).
Here're a couple of photos of the current color/colour:
and:
I still need to put the decals on (and other parts...), and maybe if I 'streak' the white lettering for the Farmers' Co-Op name on the side, that may help, too.
Good Afternoon,
Happy Father's Day to all those who are. Didn't get a card from Robbie but then again he is Westie and likely thought that a card was a needless expense. I did get a nice greeting when I got up though. Oh wait he is just a little dog so my expectations might be a little high.
Just sitting here sipping a glass of a fine Ontario red. It is a 2006 Old Vines Foch. Nice but very dry.
Well it is cloudy again here and 68F so not a great day weatherwise but at least it didn't rain.
I ran trains or at least a train for a while today. It is the Mortimer local pulled by a Pacific. If any of you are looking for a nice small passenger steamer, I sure can recommend BLI's Pacific. I did take my Mehano Hudson into the LHS as a consignment sale. It is a version sold here to somewhat resemble a CN K5a and was my first new loco when I got back into the hobby. It ran well but I don't have much of a use for it now and rarely ran it so off it goes to a new home. I'll be lucky to recover the cost of the decoders I installed but I'm not a collector. If I don't run them or they don't fit the layout, then out they go.
On the N scale front I insalled MT couplers on a Kato PA1 and also a decoder. Although MT couplers are the standard for N quite frankly I think Kato couplers are nicer. They sure are more to scale and work well but they aren't compatible with MT or others. Good grief those coupler parts sure are small! Especially a little spring that you have to fit in a special holder which is then glued in place. This is in a PA1 set in D&H livery. I just think they are really attractive locos and I really like D&H colours so on the layout they go. Funny but with N I'm far more relaxed about a loco fitting the layout either in type or the road. I now have more N scale than HO but so far rarely run any even though all of the trackwork is done and some of the scenery.
Mr. Beasley , sounds like we are in a similar situation. I will have to retire soon as I'll be 66 in Nov. and we too are thinking of moving. In our case it is more for a better climate and no yard work. By today's standards our house isn't very large at 1400 S.F., but the back yard is heavily landscaped and takes a lot of upkeep. We probably spend $500 a year on flowers. My wife is the gardiner but she has bad knees now and was just diagnosed with early oesteoporisis in her spine so she can't lift much or bend.
Well I guess that wine is having an effect as I seem to be rambling a bit here. Thanks for your patience if you made it all the way through the post.
Nasi Goering for supper tonight. Yum!! Developed a taste for it when we went to Borneo a few years ago.
It is our TV night. We watch PBS on Sundays as we really like Masterpiece Theatre and MI5.
CN Charlie
JimRCGMOI'm thinking a stage on that color before it gets kinda pink, but closer to where the red isn't as saturated but is starting to look "dull" (if I can borrow Barry's favorite weather word...).
Evening guys,
Was going to go over to my parenst for supper but just started to feel awful this afternoon, like I am getting a cold. The house is getting warm with the sun beating down on it so I may turn on the air so I can get comfy tonight. The wife went over though, I have been off all day really, I just did the house cleaning this morning ( minus making the bad,lol ) and then did nothing. It was rainy until about 12:30 or so. Well off to make that said bed and might just get into it,lol.
Hello everyone,
Just sitting here reading the forums. I cant play with my trains because I am house and cat sitting for the weekend. Just finished watching Unstoppable for the 2nd time. I went outside and put some chicken on the grill....yummy!!!! Gonna hit Ebay and see what I can find. This Friday I am going to pick up my Athearn SD70 SP heritage unit with DCC and sound, cant wait!!! I hope everyone has a great night!
JimRCGMO chochowillie JimRCGMOI want more of a "kinda washed out red from sitting in the sun for years and years" kind of almost-red color. Anybody have any suggestions how to do that (on my simple level)? I had a red truck once that sat in the sun for years and it turned into kind of a pinkish color. Don't know if that helps Jim. Dennis Thanks, Dennis - I'm thinking a stage on that color before it gets kinda pink, but closer to where the red isn't as saturated but is starting to look "dull" (if I can borrow Barry's favorite weather word...). I still need to put the decals on (and other parts...), and maybe if I 'streak' the white lettering for the Farmers' Co-Op name on the side, that may help, too. Jim in Cape G.
Jim: I would suggest a very light over-coating of thinned out white sprayed over the whole thing, OR at least on the "more sun exposed sides".
This would give it a faded look that would, I think kinda look pinkish too.
I beleive in many cases Robby P. {'memba him?} said he did that..a light white spay over coating to start his 'fading " proceedures.
If you Try it let us know and post more pics fo how it turned out!
soilwork Hello everyone, Just sitting here reading the forums. I cant play with my trains because I am house and cat sitting for the weekend. Just finished watching Unstoppable for the 2nd time. I went outside and put some chicken on the grill....yummy!!!! Gonna hit Ebay and see what I can find. This Friday I am going to pick up my Athearn SD70 SP heritage unit with DCC and sound, cant wait!!! I hope everyone has a great night!
a big fat hearty to you soil man! I don't recall seeing you in here? SO to the diner!
Come in sit a spell, share your day and chat with us!
galaxy soilwork Hello everyone, Just sitting here reading the forums. I cant play with my trains because I am house and cat sitting for the weekend. Just finished watching Unstoppable for the 2nd time. I went outside and put some chicken on the grill....yummy!!!! Gonna hit Ebay and see what I can find. This Friday I am going to pick up my Athearn SD70 SP heritage unit with DCC and sound, cant wait!!! I hope everyone has a great night! a big fat hearty to you soil man! I don't recall seeing you in here? SO to the diner! Come in sit a spell, share your day and chat with us!
Thanks! First time visit at the diner for me!!