12-01-2010, 06:57 PM
Whoa! Doctorwayne!
Those little puppies are beautious! In all the time I've spent studying Fo-Toes of your layout and modelwork, I don't know how I never noticed them before!
I like 'em!
Hopefully, this ancient kit can be transformed into a decent-looking example of a scale test car ... we'll have to wait and see.
I made the trip the 87 miles up the interstate to my "LHS" and bought a few things ... a couple badger paint jars to replace the couple dozen that my former wife assumed, when she was packing the house to move (I had gone on ahead to start the new job) was a box of little cleaned out, empty little glass jars that I was obsessively saving and packed them into the trash can, a few bottles of Floquil paint, a couple sheets of decals (for my GP39-2,) two sets of AB brake gear, and that kind of stuff. Then I climbed back into Horace, the Dodge pick-up truck for the 2-plus hour drive back home, hitting the Rush Hour traffic just as I got to the south side of Sarasota ... swell. I'm thinking I'll visit that shop and the helpful guys that work there maybe two, possibly three times a year ... it is a bit of a trip for this old guy who most weeks only puts about 8 to 10 miles on his vehicle.
I am a bit concerned about sourcing the correct decals and receiving them in time to complete this project by the deadline ... of the next challenge! I'm not having any luck locating proper decals for this model. I may have to cobble something together from several other sheets - a word here, a couple letters there, a number or two over here. I guess I should have looked into that before I jumped into the pool! But ... what the hey! We'll give it the old college try!!
Those little puppies are beautious! In all the time I've spent studying Fo-Toes of your layout and modelwork, I don't know how I never noticed them before!
I like 'em!
Hopefully, this ancient kit can be transformed into a decent-looking example of a scale test car ... we'll have to wait and see.
I made the trip the 87 miles up the interstate to my "LHS" and bought a few things ... a couple badger paint jars to replace the couple dozen that my former wife assumed, when she was packing the house to move (I had gone on ahead to start the new job) was a box of little cleaned out, empty little glass jars that I was obsessively saving and packed them into the trash can, a few bottles of Floquil paint, a couple sheets of decals (for my GP39-2,) two sets of AB brake gear, and that kind of stuff. Then I climbed back into Horace, the Dodge pick-up truck for the 2-plus hour drive back home, hitting the Rush Hour traffic just as I got to the south side of Sarasota ... swell. I'm thinking I'll visit that shop and the helpful guys that work there maybe two, possibly three times a year ... it is a bit of a trip for this old guy who most weeks only puts about 8 to 10 miles on his vehicle.
I am a bit concerned about sourcing the correct decals and receiving them in time to complete this project by the deadline ... of the next challenge! I'm not having any luck locating proper decals for this model. I may have to cobble something together from several other sheets - a word here, a couple letters there, a number or two over here. I guess I should have looked into that before I jumped into the pool! But ... what the hey! We'll give it the old college try!!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln