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 Posted - April 19 2015 : 12:21:54 AM
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This caboose is part of my effort to put together a "period" appearing excursion train using only Mantua Metal Products equipment. I now have a short version of what I think were typical colors of equipment used by an early local line, the Colorado Midland. This is to be considered an homage perhaps, because they didn't use any 2-6-0 Moguls. "Get what you pay for.", hey? Well I'm havin' fun with it. I think maybe it's the colors that pull this thing together; "locomotive" green (1/2 Brunswick Green, 1/2 Pullman Green; works out to be black with a green cast . . . in the right light), Tuscan on the combine and excursion car, and [Floquil] Caboose on the caboose. And a couple photos around the "work in progress" work bench . . .
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Posted - April 19 2015 : 07:14:55 AM
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The colors do pull the train together so it looks as if all the parts belong. They're also nice railroady colors that would be typical of the time depicted.
I also like the use of people in the scenery. They make for scenes within the scenes like the guys loading horses at the ramp and the old guy sitting at the freight house, with his thumbs hooked in his suspenders, talking with the man with the cookie duster mustache.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - April 19 2015 : 10:35:13 AM
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Always a treat to see your work with the "little people". Those are works of art 
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