Weekend Update - September 9, 2007

[Ryan87]

the aluminium paint on the shaft of the brake cylinder punched me to the floor , the ref. even had the time to count 10 ...

Except now the engine wont move, the bare metal showing means the brakes are engaged!

[ednadolski]

Fantastic work James, how did you do the faded lettering?

Thanks,
Ed

[ednadolski]

Very impressive Steve!  Craig needs to put your work on his splash page!

 I'm esp. impressed at how neatly the grabirons came out, do you use the BLMA drill templates?

[txronharris]

Steve....That's not fair. Nobody should have skills that good. You need to give me some of that tallent since you've obviously got plenty to spare. Really though, incredible work!

[txronharris]

After Steve's post, I'm a little embarrassed, but here are a couple I'm working on:

My shortline, Maple Leaf Central SD35 #27:


A fictional SD40 Snoot CP#5654 ex BCRail:



Thanks for not laughing at my photography (or modelling) skills.

[nscalesteve]

I'm esp. impressed at how neatly the grabirons came out, do you use the BLMA drill templates?

thank you...
no, I use the molded on grab irons as a drill template. first I use a little center punch/scriber, then I drill the holes and then I remove the molded on grab irons...

[nscalesteve]

Steve....That's not fair. Nobody should have skills that good. You need to give me some of that tallent since you've obviously got plenty to spare.

...yeah right !     thank you for your compliments Ron

btw, I haven't seen your Maple Leaf Central engines upclose before (only the samll one in your TB signature) and I like the idea with the Maple Leaf "a la" PacMan on the rear end - cool... 

[James Costello]

Fantastic work James, how did you do the faded lettering?

Thanks,
Ed

Thanks Ed!

I weathered the container first, applied a white speed lettered decal (from a Microscale SP diesel set) to represent the cleaner container side from where the original lettering was - and then lightly re-weathered again. I've been wanting to try this project sometime and am happy with how it has turned out. Reminds me I need to speak to a custom decal maker though.....