This is my RS3 hammerhead
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actually it is supposed to be WM . The thing that brought the RS3 hammerhead to my mind in the first place was a WM decal set , they all come with sheets in the plastic and there was a photo of a WM hammerhead.
I always liked the odd loco's , especially the re-builds done by C&NW and Katy . No one builds them . I like both the re-builds that used the Baldwin AS16 short hood and cab and frame as well as the RS3 they did using the same parts and then they added a GP-9 long hood planted right on the Baldwin or RS3 frame . I have build a few of both. I came across re-builds in a used railroad magazine where they had a set of three what were called Buffalo's which were a baldwin cab and frame on commonwealth trucks but they build a boxey short low hood that was fabricated and also used the EMD GP9 long hood. C&NW used the commonwealth trucks on a few as well but used like Katy the Baldwin As16 shorthood.
I can't wait to see what it looks like painted either. I do recall seeing another sort of odd RS3 hammerhead and I'm thinking perhaps C&NW where the high short hood was not with the normal round corners but it had a square cornered custom build hood but I can't find the railroad or photo.
I used to do one loco at a time and detail and paint it . Then I decided to build 4 or more loco's then go back and detail them all and usually when they were all the same road name then I would paint then all .
The sad truth is I have not painted one single loco since 2003 and that one was for a fellow from NC that was selling a few front range high hood kits for GP30's so he asked me to send him photo's of my work and I did and he sent me a P2K shell and frame that he wanted made into a slug in one of his customers own fictional road name so I did the work. As far as my own loco's the building I have done in the early 90's and the ones I did not sell are still waiting for the detail phase and the ones i sold were sold as built but no paint and the un-installed included handrails and detail parts. I sold many detailed and painted C&NW and C&GW loco's all 25 to one fellow , a few SD40-2's and GP38-2's in NW high hoods. I built all of those in the mid 80's. I saw a magazine artical on the Mantua 2-6-6-2 steam locos and got three pretty cheap back then and finished all three, including the super details they needed.
I still have all my air brushes and compressor and handmade spray booth but for some reason at one point I just stopped cold. I got back into building guitars and did paint the last one in 2006 using a paasche #5 H brush single action . I also got back into building tube powered guitar amps from the ground up just like the guitars. I would jump around from one hobby to another even building fly fishing rods for my own use. And fly tying but all of that is a different subject.
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IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
Western Maryland also had a few:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=358913
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2490256
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=358911
Can't wait to see what your unit looks like painted!
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=358913
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2490256
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=358911
Can't wait to see what your unit looks like painted!
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actually it is supposed to be WM . The thing that brought the RS3 hammerhead to my mind in the first place was a WM decal set , they all come with sheets in the plastic and there was a photo of a WM hammerhead.
I always liked the odd loco's , especially the re-builds done by C&NW and Katy . No one builds them . I like both the re-builds that used the Baldwin AS16 short hood and cab and frame as well as the RS3 they did using the same parts and then they added a GP-9 long hood planted right on the Baldwin or RS3 frame . I have build a few of both. I came across re-builds in a used railroad magazine where they had a set of three what were called Buffalo's which were a baldwin cab and frame on commonwealth trucks but they build a boxey short low hood that was fabricated and also used the EMD GP9 long hood. C&NW used the commonwealth trucks on a few as well but used like Katy the Baldwin As16 shorthood.
I can't wait to see what it looks like painted either. I do recall seeing another sort of odd RS3 hammerhead and I'm thinking perhaps C&NW where the high short hood was not with the normal round corners but it had a square cornered custom build hood but I can't find the railroad or photo.
I used to do one loco at a time and detail and paint it . Then I decided to build 4 or more loco's then go back and detail them all and usually when they were all the same road name then I would paint then all .
The sad truth is I have not painted one single loco since 2003 and that one was for a fellow from NC that was selling a few front range high hood kits for GP30's so he asked me to send him photo's of my work and I did and he sent me a P2K shell and frame that he wanted made into a slug in one of his customers own fictional road name so I did the work. As far as my own loco's the building I have done in the early 90's and the ones I did not sell are still waiting for the detail phase and the ones i sold were sold as built but no paint and the un-installed included handrails and detail parts. I sold many detailed and painted C&NW and C&GW loco's all 25 to one fellow , a few SD40-2's and GP38-2's in NW high hoods. I built all of those in the mid 80's. I saw a magazine artical on the Mantua 2-6-6-2 steam locos and got three pretty cheap back then and finished all three, including the super details they needed.
I still have all my air brushes and compressor and handmade spray booth but for some reason at one point I just stopped cold. I got back into building guitars and did paint the last one in 2006 using a paasche #5 H brush single action . I also got back into building tube powered guitar amps from the ground up just like the guitars. I would jump around from one hobby to another even building fly fishing rods for my own use. And fly tying but all of that is a different subject.
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Enola Yard Tim
Just call me Tim
Rather interesting.
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