05-16-2010, 10:57 AM
Thank you for the kind words. I will go ahead with that technique on my other AT&SF CF-7 and two caboose. I will try do do also smaller rust patches.
I did not get inspired by a specific picture but after I learned yesterday to have the option to run an older engine with none or minimal changed reporting marks on my layout a new option has been born for me.
I love the CF-7 and prefer the old AT&SF colors. But that does not match my layout. With the information from yesterday I could reuse the AT&SF CF-7 with a little sticker of the fictional CSTR class 3 railroad on my layout. Because the CSTR runs the CF-7 in the original AT&SF paint some severe weathering and rust is justified.
In parallel I did find lots of older CF-7 in the internet. Lots of them are in bad shape the could be used as an example for me.
viperman Wrote:Did you get inspiration from a picture in another thread here? That looks like a loco posted in another thread about reporting marks
I did not get inspired by a specific picture but after I learned yesterday to have the option to run an older engine with none or minimal changed reporting marks on my layout a new option has been born for me.
I love the CF-7 and prefer the old AT&SF colors. But that does not match my layout. With the information from yesterday I could reuse the AT&SF CF-7 with a little sticker of the fictional CSTR class 3 railroad on my layout. Because the CSTR runs the CF-7 in the original AT&SF paint some severe weathering and rust is justified.
In parallel I did find lots of older CF-7 in the internet. Lots of them are in bad shape the could be used as an example for me.
Reinhard