Lets see your patched engines

[Guilford Guy9887]

I'm pretty sure atlas has an atlas fp9 out. I saw a pair on eBay last week painted in the conway scenic that look really good.

I also model guilford/pan am and I have a few NS gp's, but with CSX going as far north as rigby I guess I have to get some ac4400's

 

[diburning]

The Atlas FP9 is not the correct length. It should be a scale 4 feet longer (slightly longer than half an inch) because of the compartment for the steam generator.

Rapido's FP9 will be the most accurate model of the prototype in any scale. They will have two versions. The first version comes with detail parts to model variants A through D and a seperate model for the E variant because they have larger fans.

PAR 1 is an A and PAR 2 is a C.

The letters for the variants comes from the CN designation GPA-17* (General Passenger A-unit, 1750 horsepower (rounded down)) with the * being the part of the designation letter. A through D are variants on components on the nose. The E variant has larger fans.

The Intermountain version is very wrong and is pretty much an FP7 in FP9 paint

 

[ChevelleSSguy]

I hope I dont offend the BN guys with this question. Im a BN guy myself but im also modern era so I have to go with the times with this.

Anyways. Anyone care to give some advice on the best way to patch out several green BN locos to BNSF regarding green patches, BNSF lettering, etc? I also have a handfull of ATSF units that I need to try as well.

 

[V&AL]

Microscale makes patch sheets with the green and blue patch rectangles already made.

 

[kz9]

Lets see any or all of your patched units.


"DISCLAIMER" I mean no harm or offense to lover's of these fallen flags. It's just a fact of life in the modern day and age.

First up (pun intended) UP, Uncle Pete, The Borg, Union Pacific. (and yes UP even patched some of it's own units when they re-numbered them).

Norfolk Southern

MircoScale have these? I want to do my 3 Conrails.....

 

[bigford]

yup HO Stock# 87-1182
and N scale Stock# 60-1182 i used these to do my conrail patch
in post #11

 

[wheeler1963]

I hope I dont offend the BN guys with this question. Im a BN guy myself but im also modern era so I have to go with the times with this.

Anyways. Anyone care to give some advice on the best way to patch out several green BN locos to BNSF regarding green patches, BNSF lettering, etc? I also have a handfull of ATSF units that I need to try as well.

Here's what you need to do BN and ATSF units.

http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2...de=87-1035&Category_Code=BNSF&Product_Count=7

http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2...de=MC-4254&Category_Code=BNSF&Product_Count=0

 

[wheeler1963]

MircoScale have these? I want to do my 3 Conrails.....

Here's the sheet for NS units.

http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2...ode=87-1182&Category_Code=NS&Product_Count=15

 

[ChevelleSSguy]

Here's what you need to do BN and ATSF units.

http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2...de=87-1035&Category_Code=BNSF&Product_Count=7

http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2...de=MC-4254&Category_Code=BNSF&Product_Count=0

Thanks for that. I was thinking these look familiar until I realized when I got back in the hobby last year I searched Microscale for these very things. Totally forgot about that.

It looks like the numbering and lettering is in stock but the colored patches are out of stock. Which is fine, I dont see a reason why one couldnt just use actual paint to do that same task.

 

[wheeler1963]

Thanks for that. I was thinking these look familiar until I realized when I got back in the hobby last year I searched Microscale for these very things. Totally forgot about that.

It looks like the numbering and lettering is in stock but the colored patches are out of stock. Which is fine, I dont see a reason why one couldnt just use actual paint to do that same task.

Chris, you could paint the patches on, but the decals give you a much cleaner look and less build up. Let me know if you can't find any of the patches, I have a spare set here I can send you.