Glen's diesel rebuild thread

[cnrglen]

Thank you Charlie. It's not that complicated of a paint scheme, mostly it's all angles and no compound curves. My most difficult paint job was a F-7 in Canadian National. Trying to get the chevron right on the nose was very tricky for me, and here I am thinking of doing 2 more!

I finished off the H-liner this afternoon.



I added the handrails, horn, mu hoses, glass and the rest of the screens. The handrails are supposed to be CPR maroon but they didn't stay that way for long so I painted them flat black with weathering to follow. The ends of the handrails are yellow.

I also replaced the couple cut bars. Originally they were a friction fit but I couldn't get all four lifting eyes in and lined up at the same time. I just drilled the holes out a bit larger and CA'ed them in. Now that the engine is all re-assembled, I fired up my airbrush and weathered it.



These engines were real workhorses in their day and got pretty dirty, pretty quickly. Most of the pictures I've seen have the anything that was originally black looking gray, more like Polly-s Grimy Black. So that's what I did. I also used Polly-s dirt on the walkways and footboards, rust on the couplers, truck springs and brake shoes.



When that had all dried I took it to the layout for some run-by shots.







I also used flat black on the roof to show diesel exhaust. And I added a brakeman to the front foot board for some character.