CNR MLW RS-18 (Atlas)

[sailormatlac]

Hallo Matt,

this is

Cheers Lutz

Thanks Lutz!

CN 3651 just coming out from the weathering shop. The fading paint effect is accurately reproducing what CN RS-18s looked like back in the 1970s. According to some former CN shop employees, they used to wash off the oil covering the locomotive with Varsol and caustic soda, which caused the premature erosion of the paint. That's why the CN logo reverted to the red oxyde underlaying primer. I still have some work to do on the locomotive, including forming the headlight lenses and making the roof more oily as per prototype... oh... and weather the shiny coupler knuckle!

Here's the prototype picture used as reference:

http://www.cnrphotos.com/gallery2/main.p...emId=87810



















The two other locomotives will be less drastic than this one though as they will represent locomotives from the early 1970s.