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    ho wabash blue bird

    its actually a power unit and dummy set i did but just the power unit is pictured i'm very happy with it and recently painted an a-b-a set of hobbytown e-7's in union pacific, and in my opinion did not come out as good as these bluebirds! i'm about to start a set of athearn sd40-2's all powered...
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    u.p. armour yellow help?

    i've done the craft store paint thinned too before... worked very well...
  3. J

    Is your layout too big?

    my layout is other my layout is too small... expansionist border negotiaions have broke down... i am currently defending the safe zone (attic)and engaged in covert operations behind enemy lines for terratory in sector 1A (spare bedroom)... the occupying forces (wife and kids) are...
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    father son layout starts

    thanks for the encouragment,here is some updates future expansion is already in the planning stages, for a 4x8 triangle yard module with 6+ stall heljan roundhouse, 15" wilson turntable we have started laying trackwork & working out bugs in the trackwork and switches. on the berkshire valley...
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    u.p. armour yellow help?

    i've also started refinishing a project i butchered as a kid... its a bowser northern i was trying to build into a u.p. fef-3... i've almost wiped the slate clean... going with an fef-1 theme instead i made new domes from white metal reshaped the cab roof opened the cab windows made new running...
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    u.p. armour yellow help?

    thanks for all the replies i wound up painting them with duplicolor automotive paint "school bus yellow" and krylon "smoke gray" and i'm now happy with the results i thought the school bus yellow would be too orange but over gray primer they turned out nice. not as mustard as i would have liked...
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    father son layout starts

    hi guys new here dont know if i'm posting in the right spot, this last christmas i built a small holiday layout for the kids and wound up giving the train bug to my father... who came to my house and watched an old mantua pacific go around my simple double oval under my christmas tree, for...
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    ho wabash blue bird

    heres a shot of an athearn s.p. style trainmaster i painted as a kid, i always loved the lionel one but could never afford it,:rolleyes: i think atlas is making trainmasters in the bluebird scheme now... thanks for looking
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    u.p. armour yellow help?

    thanks guys for all the replies. couldnt believe what they told me at the local hobby store "your painting your own locomotives??? no one does that anymore" guess not glad i found this forum! looks like i'll have to mix up my own armour yellow... i really wasnt happy with the polly scale...
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    u.p. armour yellow help?

    hi guys i'm new here, but not new to the hobby although i've been away from it for a while, recently i began building an a-b-a set of hobbytown e-7's in ho wich i was going to paint as union pacific, went to a few local hobby stores and tried to get floquil u.p. colors... couldnt find floquil so...




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