SP 70 tonner

[tom mann]

You've already seen this photo from the Vallejo paint thread:



But I starting to add some detail work:

[Chris333]

How long did that take so far?

[tom mann]

How long did that take so far?

At least an hour to figure out how to mount the couplers   Probably 1 1/2 hours after that for weathering.

[peteski]

Tom, your water-based acrylics paint job is so smooth that it look like it was done using AcuPaint TruColor paint!  Wow!

Looks like you used the 1023 couplers on yours. If this model is similar to the 44-tonner I also did the MT conversion, but I used a different coupler. Here is that thread: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=32605

[Ed Kapuscinski]

It's a shame, your great work really brings out all of the overly heaving tooling. The hood doors and other panel lines are painful.

[sirenwerks]

Great work, Tom!  I love the spots where the clean spots.

[peteski]

It's a shame, your great work really brings out all of the overly heaving tooling. The hood doors and other panel lines are painful.

The tiny windows too.  But I guess we are commenting on the paint job, right? 

[tom mann]

It's a shame, your great work really brings out all of the overly heaving tooling. The hood doors and other panel lines are painful.

Thanks - yeah the tooling is strange.  I like the louvers in the doors, but that's about it.  Everything else - especially the back of the cab - looks like Tetris pieces came together.   The cab windows are reminiscent of jail cell bars.

[wcfn100]

It's a shame, your great work really brings out all of the overly heaving tooling. The hood doors and other panel lines are painful.

And that fact that hood door arrangement never existed.   

Jason

[peteski]

And that fact that hood door arrangement never existed.   

Jason

...yet Tom took the time to beautifully decorate this crappy foob.  I guess there is a place for foobs in N scale.