12-18-2010, 03:17 PM
As I sit waiting for hopefully the last application of filler putty to dry, I look at the back of my "work bench" at the other "in progress" project that sits waiting for the EOY Challenge to conclude. It is my OMI Reading GP39-2 that through a nice person on the "Brass Collectors" forum, I was able to acquire the parts to make repairs to the broken gear tower.
Once that work has been completed and the decoder and speaker have been installed, the next step would be paint. That presents yet another problem! I have plenty of reference material of the exterior of this class of locomotives on the Reading to paint and letter this beauty ... except for one area ... this model has a "complete" cab interior and I have no clue what color any of that should be! Maybe one or more of the 1:1 scale railroaders could help me out here, or if not, I'll have to search in the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society archives (or ask someone there to search for me.) I never used to worry about such details, but lately I've become obsessed with accuracy ...
... what a curse! I'll have to work on toning that down ... after I finish the Reading GP39-2.
I would need to know the colors of the floor, walls, seats and the "control stand," including any extra colors on that control stand. In looking for something else a week or so ago I happened on a cab interior shot that showed the control stand, with a large light-colored area on it, but I only paused momentarily as I was intent on finding this other thing (Scale Test Car details) and was not going to allow myself to be distracted (fighting the ADD) and now I don't know where I saw it!
Any assistance with these details will be greatly appreciated. Once again, my intense fascination with details and detail correctness, which was an asset as a product designer, has become a debilitating curse, a proverbial thorn in my side!
Once that work has been completed and the decoder and speaker have been installed, the next step would be paint. That presents yet another problem! I have plenty of reference material of the exterior of this class of locomotives on the Reading to paint and letter this beauty ... except for one area ... this model has a "complete" cab interior and I have no clue what color any of that should be! Maybe one or more of the 1:1 scale railroaders could help me out here, or if not, I'll have to search in the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society archives (or ask someone there to search for me.) I never used to worry about such details, but lately I've become obsessed with accuracy ...
... what a curse! I'll have to work on toning that down ... after I finish the Reading GP39-2.
I would need to know the colors of the floor, walls, seats and the "control stand," including any extra colors on that control stand. In looking for something else a week or so ago I happened on a cab interior shot that showed the control stand, with a large light-colored area on it, but I only paused momentarily as I was intent on finding this other thing (Scale Test Car details) and was not going to allow myself to be distracted (fighting the ADD) and now I don't know where I saw it!
Any assistance with these details will be greatly appreciated. Once again, my intense fascination with details and detail correctness, which was an asset as a product designer, has become a debilitating curse, a proverbial thorn in my side!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln