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I guess I'll start LotW off this week. Yesterday I went to a train show, and I guess I went a little crazy. But I did get some good stuff. My favourite purchase was an Athearn PA1 and PB1. They had been custom painted so that it started off red at the front and then faded to white at the back of the B-unit...looks kind of like a Sun Burst guitar. Whoever did this had some serious air brush skills. They look cool and run really smooth.
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Posted - March 30 2008 : 11:06:51 PM
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On the theme of Custom-Painted stuff (if not your own), here's recent acquisition:
A shell for $1.25 on ebay. It was custom-painted for a fictional road called "Illinois Northern". I like the paint scheme, and I love the logo which is reminiscent of an early and favorite Nine Inch Nails album cover. Plus, "Illinois Northern" is perfectly befitting the geography of my own STC, so buying it was a no-brainer.
All I did was install a standard MU-2 drive, touch up the handrails and step edges with white safety paint, and paint the classification lights. Looks real nice.
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Posted - March 30 2008 : 11:10:14 PM
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I was about to ask if the "Ducky" had merged or been taken over! Subtle though. Very nice.
-G
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Posted - March 30 2008 : 11:16:32 PM
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Looks great GIC... Nice find.
Mike
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Posted - March 30 2008 : 11:22:19 PM
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Picked this up on ebay, loved the colours. I believe it is a custom paint, as I cannot find it on Tony's websites.
Mike
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Posted - March 31 2008 : 01:03:06 AM
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This is a Tyco F7 I repainted.
Mike, I notice yours is a Tyco Deluxe F7. I don't think Tyco did the Deluxe in that road name.
Ray
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Posted - March 31 2008 : 4:26:17 PM
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| That Milwaukee F7 could be a Mantua release, as they used the same tooling and mechanism as the Tyco Deluxe. A Milwaukee version was cataloged in at least 1981.
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Posted - March 31 2008 : 5:33:09 PM
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Athearn PRR FM Trainmaster
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Posted - March 31 2008 : 8:15:09 PM
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Custom paints this week? One of my GG1s in PRR Brunswick Green. I don't know who did it, it's pretty old---late 60s, early 70s---but a fair job. You can just make out its original lettering under the newer paint.
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Posted - March 31 2008 : 9:00:00 PM
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Here's another Trainmaster. Saw this in a hobby shop in San Antonio, Tx. when I lived there in 1992. Didn't have a lot of spare cash in those days....didn't even have a layout to speak of, unless you count the eight-foot long by four-inch wide strip of bare wood along my apartment wall, but I HAD to have this! I loved the massiveness, and the metal sideframes (I think Athearn was already going plastic on it's other models). My only "mistake" was that I was not familiar with the use of ACC (super-glue), and secured the handrails with small drops of J-B Weld epoxy! Above the TM is an OO scale LMS British coach, which is my other current interest.
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Posted - March 31 2008 : 9:33:50 PM
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Very nice...like yours a lot...thought I would show you latest acquired unit...nothing special, but in excellent shape at
garage sale...rf16 shark...yes a tyco too...
"Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, SHARKS will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them . . ." by Herman Melville
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Posted - March 31 2008 : 10:30:34 PM
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One of the first "real models" I bought once I got back into the hobby. Over 20 years old. I would have the crews of PRR SWs call to me "hey red" and wave as I walked to elementary school. I lived within 1/4 of a mile from the station and a small yard. My memory is that they always seemed to run cab first or backward.
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Posted - April 01 2008 : 02:15:17 AM
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Okay, it's not a custom paint job, but this little switcher has more mileage inside the box than out of the box... China, Ontario, Wisconsin, My house... Kamloops Museum.
Well, here it is photo-form. I really like the stripe arrangements these little switchers inherited.
This is what my dad sent me for my b-day & Christmas 2007...
Now, it doesn't pull much, but it sure crawls nicely.
John
I don't have a one track mind. It depends on the turn-out.
"I love your catenary!"
Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - April 05 2008 : 02:42:36 AM
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Here is one Tony does not have a pic of, on the Life-Like page. A low nose Grand Trunk GP-38-2. Feel free to use the pic.
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