GEC's Layout Progress

[Green_Elite_Cab]

My Silverliner IV Arrived today. Hopefully, i can learn from my mistakes from my Arrow III MU car, as far as painting goes. I let the one Arrow car dry in the open, and now it is "fuzzy" in some light, as dust stuck to the wet paint while drying.

The plan is to do the sides with Alclad Chrome (airbrushed over a gloss black base) for maximum shiny-ness (they are shiny cars, even today after nearly 40 years of use). the ends will be brushed (with a new brush) laterally with Polly Scale Stainless steel. This accurately represents the finish of these cars.

Here is the model with a gloss black undercoat. Lucky for me, these cars use the common "faively" type pantograph, of which i have several spares for used on these cars.



Here is the Arrow III, complete with chromed dust. It is still not finished since i need to add lighting. Once lit, i can add the end steps and the model will be essentially completed. Only the unique Stemman pantograph remains to be completed, and i'm still perfecting it. You can see how the paint reflects differently. I couldn't capture it, but it will reflect my hand or a adjacent model the way the prototype would.



luckily from most angles, the dust isn't so obvious.



Here is the prototype for my Silverliner IV, Reading 9019.



I have the decals mostly collected. I just need to work on the numbers.



Finally, i have all the decals to complete my E44A 4465. the Champ set, on top of providing me the Pennsy style numbers, had electric warning stickers on the side, which i need for my other E44s and E33s, so i'll try to get more before Champs goes totally under. Luckily, i have the radio equipped and Conrail patches, so it shouldn't be a tough model to put together, and may actually look the most intersting. You can see in the photo within the photo that 4465 kept its Pennsy numbers and radio equipped decals even into the conrail era (that photo is dated April 1980, about a year from retirement).