Lets see your New FEF-3

[up1950s]

thanks a lot guys!I really appreciate the great comments!

Here is your crown

(And sometimes Y if your me in a rush)

[C855B]

Very funny, Richie!

What Adam has done is very convincing. It really looks like a "working locomotive", "working" in the broad-shoulders sense. There's just enough weathering to convey that gritty out-on-the-road feel, far from the appearance of a rust-bucket waiting for the torch that we frequently see. It's a really good case for backing-off on the "rust" colors in the weathering palette.

Robyn will be keeping hers in all its excursion purity. That's what she knows, and that's what she likes.

[up1950s]

Well there's your silver !

[superturbine]

Oh sure Richie, edit you post and the joke is on me now!!

[draskouasshat]

 by no means am I the king richie lol.  thanks again guys.  guess I need to pick up another one and rinse and repeat.  the question still is, leave the smoke lifters off or on?  I'll work on some better pictures with better light later tonight.

[peteski]

The loco looks surprisingly good with the lifters off but I also agree with you that the weathering (of the now exposed) smokebox looks a bit strange. I don't think it is overweathered - the weathering looks mottled or something like that. Looks like it has swirls in it.

That is in contrast with the initial weathering you did to the new paint job. That light weathering job looked superb and very realistic.  I understand that this is a much heavier weathered loco but the smokebox doesn't seem to be up to your standard.  Same with the silver firebox sides. The weathering seems to be tabbed in the center with the outside edges still bright silver. Looks like you just took some gray paint and dabbed  the paint over the center of it.

Hey, I can't weather worth a damn, but I can criticize critique quite well.    You did ask...

[draskouasshat]

I think I need to redo the smokebox and I do have some touchup  work I need to do. I used the tamiya  kits with the makeup applicator so that might be the swirling? I think on the next one, ill  do a light job on it and keep it in a somewhat recently shopped state abd ready to pull the limited over cajon.

[Cajonpassfan]

the question still is, leave the smoke lifters off or on?  I'll work on some better pictures with better light later tonight.

Drasko, my two cents: you're going to be hard pressed to find an all black FEF of any class with smoke lifters before '1952/53 or so. There are a lot of photos of TTG FEF's with and without elephant ears, and even in TTG without the red Mars light, but none I know of with lifters in all black until later. So I'd say if you're going all black before the TTG era, leave the ears off. And yea, better pics would be great...
Otto K.

[EspeeGoldenState]

Here's a couple of mine:



Sorry about the blurry image, but not sure how I like the looks of it double heading sitting on the desk.


I'll post a video of it late Friday from pulling the train around the club Friday. 844 + 2 Water Tenders + 24 Business Cars. Makes me wish I had my own layout, but an apartment and kids just doesn't work that way. Always the club at least.

Chris

[draskouasshat]

I'm going to have to agree with otto  on this. I think ears off is  the way to go.  I'm stretching the truth enough as it is with an fef2 on the pass in all black, less  than a year after the change to oil, a  change that supposedly was followed by a ttg  paint job! once Christmas eve festivities are done and I  get home, ill see  about better pictures and maybe some altered weathering.

[arbomambo]

running the FEF-3 on the layout real quick...plan on this one being a 'show runner' only
Thanks for looking!
Bruce

[EspeeGoldenState]

Here's mine with a break run on Friday, and today's run for the public today. The first day was 23 cars without a second power car, and the second day was the full 24 car train that I have at the moment with both flag cars and two power cars. All cars are based off of current day Union Pacific executive fleet. I still want a UPP 9336 Boxcar and UPP 5818 Reed Jackson (souvenir car).


http://www.youtube.com/p52pvri95S4

Still lots of stuff to do to get it to "100%" but hey its a hobby right?

Chris

[peteski]

Still lots of stuff to do to get it to "100%" but hey its a hobby right?

Chris

Considering that I don't think we'll ever be able to truly reduce the 1:1 items to 1:160 (to make a 100% replica), you're not doing too badly. 

[lashedup]

Started dismantling an FEF today and it appears Kato is leaving the door open for more variations. The top of the tender unit comes off separately allowing for a potential change to a coal unit if Kato decided to tool the piece up. Likewise the elephant ears come right off and the detail underneath is good. Runs fantastic and looks great. Bought a spare unit to bash into something else. We'll see how it goes...

- jamie

[peteski]

It is all snapped together. The domes, the smokebox, the smokebox front, number boards, headlight are all separate parts.