11-20-2022, 09:33 PM
I finished off the first engine this weekend. I'm finding that now that the snow is falling, I have more time for the indoor hobby.
I decaled the engine over a couple days.
The black divider lines are five decal stripes per side. The 'Canfor' and the safety hashes on the pilots and the stripes all came from the original decals that were used on the yellow engines.
I was not really happy with the air tanks on the original engines. I had made them with 3/16" tubing that was filled with body filler and then I rounded the ends. This time I used 3/16 rod and rounded the ends by chucking them on my drill press and sanding the ends with sandpaper. It worked much better.
And then it was just a matter of paints the walkways and railings black. I used some leftover decals for the numbers on the hood and then re-assembly.
Almost all the handrails are originals this time. I managed to get the safety hashes around them without removing them.
If it was up to me, I'd weather it just a bit to make the trucks 'pop' a bit more. Straight black makes everything disappear into the background.
Now I'm on the second engine. It'll be fairly straight forward this time. Just another yellow one.
I did, however, write down all the dimensions for the detail parts and paint striping for these engines.
Just in case I'm asked to build another or if I build one for myself one day.
This Saturday I did get another project from another client:
My first Brass paint job, a GMD-1
I decaled the engine over a couple days.
The black divider lines are five decal stripes per side. The 'Canfor' and the safety hashes on the pilots and the stripes all came from the original decals that were used on the yellow engines.
I was not really happy with the air tanks on the original engines. I had made them with 3/16" tubing that was filled with body filler and then I rounded the ends. This time I used 3/16 rod and rounded the ends by chucking them on my drill press and sanding the ends with sandpaper. It worked much better.
And then it was just a matter of paints the walkways and railings black. I used some leftover decals for the numbers on the hood and then re-assembly.
Almost all the handrails are originals this time. I managed to get the safety hashes around them without removing them.
If it was up to me, I'd weather it just a bit to make the trucks 'pop' a bit more. Straight black makes everything disappear into the background.
Now I'm on the second engine. It'll be fairly straight forward this time. Just another yellow one.
I did, however, write down all the dimensions for the detail parts and paint striping for these engines.
Just in case I'm asked to build another or if I build one for myself one day.
This Saturday I did get another project from another client:
My first Brass paint job, a GMD-1