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Trust me, they look bad-a$$ with 28 inch wheels.
Well, I never said that, nor did I intend to implicitly say it. At the very least, the decals won't say "F43" and it's hard to fudge that. Also, the F30 set does not contain any "R's." They all spell out PENNSYLVANIA on the decals.So Doug's pic from the flat car book says this is Shadow Keystone. Most PRR Flats didn't have the keystone on them at all. There's no keystones in the F30 set.So...what about other decal sets? I don't know if they can be pieced together.
Otto- Sad but true. However unless you plan to bring the car to an RPM meet, no one else will know and you are the master of your model railroad universe.Doug.
The "P" and the "A" can be combined to make an "R" if necessary. You just need a "4" for the class, as you already have the "F" and the "3", but letters/numbers from a generic sheet should give you the needed characters, as would any of Microscale's other Pennsy freight decals.My point being, it can be done form commercially available decals if desired. With an existing (albeit incorrectly-deco'd) Pennsy scheme readily obtainable in multiple numbers, I don't see the financial upside to having limited-run decals made OR lobbying for them to be made commercially.
Interesting. Hadn't thought of mixing the P and A. That's solid. I didn't provide full context of the discussion. It was more of a custom thing for me. I should also add that I have a bit of a rapport with John. My lobbying (read: playful nagging) might just pay off when it comes to his MOW set being released in N. I just tacked this stuff on. He mentioned something about being able to do single one off sheets. I recommended the F43 and F41 off the top of my head. I remember your F41 is stellar and that you patched other sets together.
Actually per Jason's suggestion on a related issue ... For the F41 I extracted the vector artwork from the Athearn GSC flatcar announcement PDF, corrected the errors in the data and used my more accurate PENNSYLVANIA from my files, and output white decals on an Alps. That's why the deco on my model fits in well with their stock model. Yes I "patched" the artwork, but did so virtually and not physically. Athearn has gotten smarter with their PDFs in recent times by embedding bitmaps instead of vector art, but all their older PDFs are worth mining if for personal use only.
BBussey, is there anything you don't already have. I can't find an Alps printer any more, let alone the white 'ink'. I want to come over to your house to play...
Decals can't be pieced together from Microscale's Pennsy F30 set? I find that hard to believe.