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Painting is not hard and the Milwaukee is about as easy as it gets. The only easier models to paint are PRR diesels and there off-spring (PC, Conrail, NS)Take up the airbrush offer, buy some Tamiya masking tape and some paint and have at it. Work with acrylics and if you screw up, dunk it in alcohol and start over till you get it right.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KATO-N-176-4809-Milwaukee-Road-MILW-EMD-SD40-2-Diesel-Locomotive-160-DCC-Ready-/380660252903?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item58a11e80e7You'll need to be quick...
I have expected more, but have learned to scale back my expectations. With the current crop of motive power. The best improvement I have seen is when Atlas did the SD35 and dumped the Delrin handrail/walkway combo and then went back and redid the GP38/40 series the same. I really wish they would go back and redo the GP30/35 as well and would really like it if Kato would follow suit. I think that is asking to much though.I think the biggest leaps in N-Scale have been the freight cars, track and supporting scenery elements. They have really stepped it up. Moreso than the motive power. One thing I had to learn before I could convince myself to pull out my N-Scale stuff and start working on it again is that N-Scale is more of the overall viewing of the model and scene. Not needing the detail level of the larger scales although it is fun to push the levels of detail on my n-scale models too. N-scale models do look a WHOLE lot better than they did when I started back in the early 1970's. They look fantastic at standard viewing distances. When you have a nice layout with todays quality locomotives and rolling stock, n-scale really looks GREAT! They do not really cut it though as stand alone models without at least some detail work.Since I finished teh ICG SD40's last week, I have started on a detail project just to see how it will come out. Today I finished the pilot work on the SD40's and half of the U30C. The U30C required an under the coupler coupler lift bar and after finishing it, I got pretty excited and am really looking forward to see how these four models turn out. One of the SD40's is going to be kitbashed into a phase III SD40. I will graft the radiator hatch and DB hatch fom an SD40-2 onto it. I will have to make a few compromises though, but that is part of the modeling and I think it will be OK. I am learning to live with that and it keeps me moving forward rather than putting it away because there would be to much work involved in fixing the compromise. Now, if Kato would follow suit with getting rid of the handrail/walkway combo and do what Atlas has done. Then I would not have to compromise. So beit. .Although I have done a lot of modeling in HO, n-scale is still my favorite. AS I said above, I just need to learn to live with the compromises, move forward and enjoy it.Brian
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