IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
It is easier to drop a wet spaghetti noodle thru a straw, than it is to replace the shell on the chassis of an Atlas C40-8. No, really - I spent close to an hour trying to force that *&&%@# shell back on over the front end. I was ready to do something stupid, when suddenly I felt something snap and the next thing I knew, it was sitting on there perfectly straight, go figure... (Luckily the decoder is already installed and working fine!)
I've been working on this model for the past 2 weeks. It originally looked like the diagram in this link: http://www.atlasrr.com/Images/HOLocomotives/hodash8/8-40C_CSX.gif
I figured I could do a little masking, throw on some Pollyscale CSX Blue & CSX Yellow with some Microscale decals, and be done with it. Wrong - turns out that the large 'csx' letters on the long hood are a scale foot lower on the Stealth paint scheme, so the blue stripe would've covered the bottoms of the letters. So to make a long story short, I ended up having to repaint the entire unit. I wasn't entirely pleased with the results, but hey - a bit of weathering covers a multitude of paint 'sins'!
Here is a proto shot of #7569, courtesy of Dean Heacoch's CSX Photo Archive:
http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/photos/C40-8/7569CSX-bc.jpg
I like this particular unit because (1) the paint is splotchy and uneven as on my model, and (2) the nose 'csx' letters are positioned below the center grabiron, instead of directly over it. I can't bring myself to paint the roof white though, I'm hoping that it wasn't delivered in that color.
Here is where I'm at so far. There are some imperfections that weren't obvious until I saw it in these direct-sunlight photos, it won't be too much trouble to correct those [I hope]...
I've been working on this model for the past 2 weeks. It originally looked like the diagram in this link: http://www.atlasrr.com/Images/HOLocomotives/hodash8/8-40C_CSX.gif
I figured I could do a little masking, throw on some Pollyscale CSX Blue & CSX Yellow with some Microscale decals, and be done with it. Wrong - turns out that the large 'csx' letters on the long hood are a scale foot lower on the Stealth paint scheme, so the blue stripe would've covered the bottoms of the letters. So to make a long story short, I ended up having to repaint the entire unit. I wasn't entirely pleased with the results, but hey - a bit of weathering covers a multitude of paint 'sins'!
Here is a proto shot of #7569, courtesy of Dean Heacoch's CSX Photo Archive:
http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/photos/C40-8/7569CSX-bc.jpg
I like this particular unit because (1) the paint is splotchy and uneven as on my model, and (2) the nose 'csx' letters are positioned below the center grabiron, instead of directly over it. I can't bring myself to paint the roof white though, I'm hoping that it wasn't delivered in that color.
Here is where I'm at so far. There are some imperfections that weren't obvious until I saw it in these direct-sunlight photos, it won't be too much trouble to correct those [I hope]...