MikeOwnby
Active Member
Sort of a proof-of-concept, since I didn't want to destroy a "good" locomotive until I knew I could actually accomplish the paint job. I've painted and decaled a number of units in real RR paint schemes, but this was my first go at designing my own paint job, creating the decals for it, etc. This locomotive is N Scale, BTW, and the photo I've attached shows the progression from concept on the computer to the end product.
This is a conglomeration of an Atlas SD60 body I had lying around stuck onto an Intermountain SD45T-2 chassis that I had...you guessed it...lying around. So if you count rivets, this one's not even gonna be close
That said, I'm thinking the paint job generally turned out well, and I'll next set my sights on either a GP60M or SD70MAC as the next unit. While this won't ever be a prototypical unit, I can just pretend that it's been rebuilt from whatever since it is my own made-up railroad
I'm somewhat new to this (just back in the hobby for about 18 months now), so if there's any constructive criticism or anything that I got just blatantly *wrong* on this guy, I'd be interested to know any of that. I based the placards off of some Norfolk Southern SD60 photos, but since both the photos and the N-scale decals are so difficult to read, I had to just guess at what decals were actually appropriate, and basically just went with whatever seemed to have the same shape and colors.
This is my first post to the board, so I hope I'm doing everything correctly and all that. Look forward to hopefully contributing where I can and definitely garnering needed information from you vets out there along the way.
-Mike
This is a conglomeration of an Atlas SD60 body I had lying around stuck onto an Intermountain SD45T-2 chassis that I had...you guessed it...lying around. So if you count rivets, this one's not even gonna be close
That said, I'm thinking the paint job generally turned out well, and I'll next set my sights on either a GP60M or SD70MAC as the next unit. While this won't ever be a prototypical unit, I can just pretend that it's been rebuilt from whatever since it is my own made-up railroad
I'm somewhat new to this (just back in the hobby for about 18 months now), so if there's any constructive criticism or anything that I got just blatantly *wrong* on this guy, I'd be interested to know any of that. I based the placards off of some Norfolk Southern SD60 photos, but since both the photos and the N-scale decals are so difficult to read, I had to just guess at what decals were actually appropriate, and basically just went with whatever seemed to have the same shape and colors.
This is my first post to the board, so I hope I'm doing everything correctly and all that. Look forward to hopefully contributing where I can and definitely garnering needed information from you vets out there along the way.
-Mike