Took a couple shots of my young small collection (besides the dozen units on lay-away). The brass M1A is too nice to mess with as is it's tender and the NOS N5B, but I have a few brass pieces coming which I won't think twice about modifying and customizing. My modern Diesels are all DCC/Sound...
Did some decals tonight. Have not done anything like that for 50 + years....... Decided not to get anal about it and used some numbers which came on the decal sheet. There was NO WAY I was going to try to piece single numbers together and try to get them straight..... Nobody but a...
Yeah, I'm not modeling PRR only have a display. I'm from Minnesota so I prefer Soo Line, BNSF or Milwaukee which are what my Diesel rigs are.
Alan, the Loco runs excellent. I just need to run my wire from the tender to the Loco. Once I cleaned the 30 year old grease (which had dried and...
As far as Smokebox Gray, I saw some which were lighter gray like this pic, and some which were almost black so what's correct??? They all are so no sleep lost. Even the purist scratch their heads since one paint shop didn't have enough gray, so they mixed some black so they had enough to do the...
You are correct sir. I had a coupler mismatch and flipped the springs on the tender instead of the Caboose. They will both be installed correctly tomorrow. I knew you would catch that. As soon as I flipped the springs on the tender, It was way top heavy and tippy. Seen it right away...
OK, i'm ready for tomorrow which is when my Decal juice will be here. After looking on the bay and some other sites, I think mine came out pretty good for my first attempt at paint and body work. Here is some shots before decals. Perfect? Not by any stretch of the imagination but as the boys...
The pic of the caboose I am trying to emulate on page 4 is NOT a stock PRR color. It's more red I believe. It looks nicer but I don't think it matches the stock color. I used PRR Caboose red. Looks more crap brown.
I got the caboose about finished. I used a textured black on the roof. Not sure if I like it or not. We'll see after some satin clear. Otherwise, it looks good. Crappy lighting, the spots at the apron around the bottom is glare from the metal plate it is sitting on.