GEC's Layout Progress

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Here are some pictures of recent progress on my projects!

Conrail GP18 #7499-

Its almost a shame to have to patch over all the Lehigh Valley logos, but I'm hoping the "peeling paint patch" effect will be worth it. The engine does look pretty spiffy as it is! I still need to pop air bubbles and put more solvaset on the decals. I'll then seal it in with a clear coat before masking and patching the LV logos on the engine with another shade of LV Cornell red. I plan to dab the wet paint with a paper towel to reveal some of the older lettering.

You can see from the photos that there are some serious air bubbles in the LV logo, and i'm very concerned that the size of these decals might make them a problem in the future, especially if I'm going to use masking tape to box in the patch.



PRR B1 switcher #4751

This one, as well as the GP18, are my first uses of the "tru-color" paints that appear to be replacing Polly Scale/Floquil. So far, I am very satisfied. It goes on glossy, but this is fine for decals. You can see my TV screen reflecting on the sideframes! I think they also got the Brunswick Green down pretty good.

this picture might be a bit bright, but the engine looks great under normal lighting conditions. The only pain will be putting in the little numberboard decals on the headlights. I did this on one already, but there are three more number boards to go and its so small!

I also need to paint the grab irons yellow, but one step at a time!

The real challenge will be isolating the motor for DCC.



PRSL RDC-1 #M-403

I applied the Mount Vernon shops decales to it, which add some much needed color and "update" it to the time period that I model. The tiger stripes are particularly nice







NJDOT/PC Arrow I #100

I picked this car up for $20, and I'm 99% sure its the original display model that the manufacturer has on its website. All of those display models were recently sold off. It also has an early attempt at a Stemman pantograph, but I plan to replace this with the Walthers Stemman Pantograph.

The car represents the Arrow I as it appeared originally in 1968.

I plan to renumber this car into the 500 series. I have positively identifed 4 Arrow I cars in the 500 series (and I now there are more), so it looks like this one will become #521. Other numbers I've seen are 507, 509, and 510, which will be applied to my other three kits.







SIRT R44s

Not much I can do with these now, since there are neither decals nor underframes for them (yet), but I had to have these since I'm in Staten Island all the time.



More to follow!