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Beginner's Advice for Painting F-units?

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Beginner's Advice for Painting F-units?
Posted by DDavidsonFarms on Saturday, May 7, 2016 1:02 PM

I've never tried my hand at painting locomotives. How would a person go about painting an F-unit or E-unit with the typical EMD factory designed striping? I want something similar to Atlantic Coast Line or Southern Railway....just the familiar striping patterns that we all think of when we think of cab unit diesels. Does anyone make a template (specifically for N scale) with pre made designs that can aid an unsteady hand? I don't think I could do a good even masking job without some kind of stencil or something. Not that I'm too lazy to mask and such, just don't think I could get a satisfactory result. I hope this makes sense.

Forgive my ignorance if this is something I should already know about lol.

Dakota

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Posted by dstarr on Saturday, May 7, 2016 1:14 PM

Look for Decals of stripes.  With care you can get them to go on straight. 

 

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Posted by RR_Mel on Saturday, May 7, 2016 2:35 PM

Dakota
 
Give it a shot, I didn’t think I could airbrush my E series locomotives either.  I’m working in HO not N but smaller might even be better.
 
Here is a link to my blog where I painted my first diesel using masking tape.  Since then I’ve repainted my entire diesel fleet, it gets easier with every paint job.
 
 
 
Mel
 
Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951
 
My Model Railroad   
 
Bakersfield, California
 
I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

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