TLOC
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Fellow weathering enthusiasts or bored looking for something different! Welcome aboard.
I have a MP15ac HO scale Athearn Genesis that needs some dirtying up. This will be different for me.
1st thing is to remove the body from the chassis as this is a rough runner and cleaning out and re-lubing didn’t help. So while the body is off the drive train will get disassembled, cleaned up, feeders soldered to the pickup and hopefully add some ditchlights that currently are on backorder.
The CP lettering and numbers will go. The white sill stripe will stay and the red body shall be faded without I hope breaking any of the fragile railings.
Online tonight I was looking for a protptype picture of a medium dirty MP15ac. I prefer to weather off a sample picture to keep me focused. No picture of a sample seems to lead me into almost but not quite the “rust bucket” mode. Road names didn’t matter except it could not be one of the Soo Lines “bandits.” Never excepted to find thousands of pictures on 3 photo sites of such a clean locomotive. These samples are actually the dirtiest MP15ac’s I could locate, minus “bandits.”
Each picture has the photographer name listed. While not one is the ideal picture to work from, the dirt (up 1420) or rust (csx pic) are there.
A diesel tank picture, (up 1420, and Milw #444) the fade of the red and a patch of rust in the upper front of one. I can work with these.
Once the weathering is complete, hopefully the LED’s for ditchlights will have arrived
Please follow along as this may become interesting. Also, your comments push me to complete a project
TomO
I have a MP15ac HO scale Athearn Genesis that needs some dirtying up. This will be different for me.
1st thing is to remove the body from the chassis as this is a rough runner and cleaning out and re-lubing didn’t help. So while the body is off the drive train will get disassembled, cleaned up, feeders soldered to the pickup and hopefully add some ditchlights that currently are on backorder.
The CP lettering and numbers will go. The white sill stripe will stay and the red body shall be faded without I hope breaking any of the fragile railings.
Online tonight I was looking for a protptype picture of a medium dirty MP15ac. I prefer to weather off a sample picture to keep me focused. No picture of a sample seems to lead me into almost but not quite the “rust bucket” mode. Road names didn’t matter except it could not be one of the Soo Lines “bandits.” Never excepted to find thousands of pictures on 3 photo sites of such a clean locomotive. These samples are actually the dirtiest MP15ac’s I could locate, minus “bandits.”
Each picture has the photographer name listed. While not one is the ideal picture to work from, the dirt (up 1420) or rust (csx pic) are there.
A diesel tank picture, (up 1420, and Milw #444) the fade of the red and a patch of rust in the upper front of one. I can work with these.
Once the weathering is complete, hopefully the LED’s for ditchlights will have arrived
Please follow along as this may become interesting. Also, your comments push me to complete a project
TomO
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