GEC's Layout Progress

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Frustrating past few weeks. I haven't really updated this as i've been doing things (in fact, i only tend to post when i get new things, but this is more of a semi reccord for myself).

Basically, as part of the agreement for those Arrow III Married pairs i mentioned earlier, I had to paint some models. Long story short, i had to do a Metro North GP40, and the whole thing was a complete mess. I have it "good enough" at this point, but those who know me will know that i'm not happy with it. It looks like something I would have done 5 years ago, and doesn't seem to reflect my previous couple paint jobs, which came out extroadinarily well.

Speaking of Arrow IIIs and paints, i got tired of the fuzzy paint on my Arrow III single that i was assembling for the past 3 years now (all sorts of frustrations there). In the process however, i may have roughed up one side of the shell (i suspect the alcohol i was using to strip did this). I don't think its so damaged that i cannot still repaint it, as it seems some light sanding and polishing repairs it, but now i'm wondering if, due to the laquer nature of the paint, that perhaps i should try some lacquer thinner to see if the rough spots are really just VERY persistent paint.

If you go ALL the way back to the very first page of this thread, you can see the Arrow III with Testors Metalizer paints. I never stripped this off, just painted over it. I suspect that whats left of the testors is whats making the paint funny. Either way, its gonna need a pain staking polishing, but in the end, i can at least repaint it into the NJ DOT scheme, and hopefully put a better finish on it than i had.

If its less than perfect, so was the prototype at times! This dirty speciment was loaned to the Maryland Area Rail Commuter agency during the mid 1970s, and it clearly hasn't been through the wash rack in a while. The hope is that i can make my model look like that when its done.





For comparison, "clean" Arrow IIIs tended to look more like this- You can see a reflection in their fluted sides.