Been playing around with some old photos of mine. Ran them thru an editor and turned them into B&W's. In a couple of cases, doing this also made the photos better!
Also, here's another "paint shop" shot of an engine I'm doing for another friend. He's a CB&Q fan. This is an Oriental Limited 65 ton center cab for the CB&Q. The job itself wasn't hard and the weathering was kept light on purpose. The prototype, judging from the pictures of it taken thru the years, didn't see the wash rack but RARELY
. If I had followed those pix, the loco would be black and rust, with a little grey on top!
I now have a means of "checking" the paint job for mistakes other than by just looking at the loco. Yall have it as well, its your digital cameras.
I can now follow the advice John Allen gave a friend. John took a photo of a loco that the friend built, and enlarged it to an 8x10. Then he told the friend to study the photo and anything on the model that "told" his friend this was a model, or didn't look correct, he should replace.
I think that is still very good advice!
I still need to insert the decoder, couplers, window material, crew and light lenses. Probably get that all done today or tomorrow. Well anyway, here's a couple of shots. First CB&Q unit I've done.
Yall think I ought to add some more mud???