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 Posted - November 02 2011 : 4:40:51 PM
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I thought the last thread was getting pretty long, so I started a new one.
After finishing up the LED wiring and checking all the electrical with my "high tech" test track (I will include an image of that later in my summary), it was time for the old timer to get a makeover. I have been playing with livery concepts for a while, trying for some color scheme that would suggest the parent railroad (GN) of my little line, the Minnesota, Sioux Lake and Western. This is a subsidiary that "exists" in the transition era, where the GN bought several small feeder lines in rural areas of central and western Minnesota, but kept them as independent entities for some legal or economic reason, one of them being my railroad. I am presently modeling the Sioux Lake engine shop and a small agro- industrial area adjacent to the shop and engine servicing facilities. Purists and rivet counters might say that it would be easier to let the subsidiaries' maintenance needs be met by the large facilities only 2hrs away in Minneapolis, but this line serves the farmers and commercial customers of eastern North Dakota and Western Minnesota. When the winter wheat is ready or the fall produce crops are coming in, it is handy to have that small servicing facility nearby to keep things moving during the busy agricultural shipping periods. In addition, the small state teachers college at Sioux Lake was recently absorbed into the new satellite state university system set up after 1945, so the bumper crop of GI Bill college students, many with family nearby, could stay local and get their college education. There is a lot more to this fictional story, but I verge on trending into the old Twilight Zone episode with William Windom about the commuter on the evening train who wanted to get off in an imaginary whistle stop of a small town called Willoughby.
(I screwed up the typing here so bear with me)
I will continue in a second post...
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episode with Willam Windom about the commuter who wanted to get off in that pleasant old time small town.
Back to painting...I settled on using a combination of GN Orange, with a contrast color of plain old red auto primer. The two colors suggest some of the fall leave colors of the state and set each other off nicely.
After washing the unpainted parts in dishsoap water and recleaning leaning them wi painted the shell and the lower deck piece with good old Walmart Colormate Gray, an economy
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Posted - November 02 2011 : 4:48:54 PM
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Good Luck!
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Posted - November 02 2011 : 4:54:55 PM
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So, after prepping the shell and deck pieces, I painted them with Walmart Colormate Gray, which I have used extensively on structures as a primer. It lays flat and does not obscure small details, unless you are heavy on the button. I was them in dish soap and then, when rinsed and air-dried, re lean them with 91% alcohol, using a foam pad- not cloth or Qtips!
I let them sit for several days after priming and the just shot the lower deck in Rustoleum auto primer red.
I chose that and a contrast color of GN Orange, to maintain family ties with GN and to mimic some of the beautiful fall leaf colors seen in Minnesota as the weather changes toward winter.
The lower deck all red primer, and I will detail the side mechanicals- the compressors, springs and other detail cast onto the part- with engine black, as did ChrisC on his project.
The center cab front,rear, sides and roof will also be red primer, with the GN Orange used for the front and rear hood areas. I was thinking of a top hood treatment of the red primer as well, but it would serve as a poor contrast to the airborne, muffled exhaust and other details on top.
I have a railroad logo, but may use a GN decal with MSL & W initials below it, rather than go all out and use the original design. After all, why spend money on a small service switcher- it's not going to pull the railroad's president in a business car!
More later...
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Posted - November 02 2011 : 5:12:31 PM
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Cool! Show me what it looks like when shes done!
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