After F comes G

I have to say-it looks beautiful!

I agree.  Pretty  cool.

 

Rick

 Nice job !

 I did see one in Dallas once.

Outstanding job Bruce!  It sure looks nicer than a Penn Central paint scheme. 

Oh man,,,,

Just wait until the old fart rivet counters wake up tomorrow

and see this...

Blastfamy !!!!!

 

It is cool looking though....

Looks great!

I picked up a blank  Williams shell on Ebay a few months ago with the idea to do this very same thing. What held me up was should I do it like you did a single warbonnet or do a double warbonnet paint job. Looks pretty cool, just wait til Lee Willis sees it!

 

Jerry

It is Beautiful!  However, SPF's (Slobbering Pennsy Freaks) would have you tarred and feathered.  I should know.  I was once a SPF.  Now I'm into NS and Conrail which is OK because the Pennsy is where they came from.

 

Chief Bob (Retired)

as a SPF, I like it, and it looks way better than the mating worms or Amtrack scheme.

All I can say is....

 

me and my Slobbering Pennsy Fan friends will be at your house by morning! 

 

George

That's exactly what I was about to post -- I thought at first glance that this had to be a Lee Willis article.  Not to take anything away from brwebster's beautiful work, but personally, I think the double-ended nature of the GG1 almost requires a dual warbonnet scheme.

 

super,,,,,,,,,,chief   !!!!!!!!!!!!

• The rivet-counter in me cringes.
• The art critic in me says "well done, sir."
• The "Self-appointed Information Minister of the Isle of Denial" in me says "park that right next to my ATSF SD70ACe." 

 

Wow.  I love it - for a host of reasons!  First, Warbonnet looks fantastic on just about anything, and particuarly here, where it improves the looks of the always sleek GG1. I particularly like how you interpreted  Warbonnet's non-symmetrical design front to back onto Loewy's symmetrical shape. It it quite striking.

 

Second, because I also love repainting great eastern-railway locos into even greater western-US locos, as with the two below, I know how difficult this paint job was.  warbonnet is as difficult as any re-paint scheme I have seen.  I repainted a scale GG1 olive drab, and in a simple military graphics scheme, for photos in the Veranda Turbine book, but I never did anything scheme so difficult on such a complicated shape.  Extremely well executed.  Just superb!

 

Third, I love the whole idea of striking out in a new direction, particularly against the current.  This is one of my favorites!  Just fantastic.

 

Below: N&W J in UP Greyhound, ATSF's never-built, late-'40s, 6-4-4-4 "Super Steam-Liner' (formerly a TMCC T-1).

Excellent! I also have wondered if SF or UP had GG1s, what their final paint versions would look like. I think you got it right on. Again, great job.

I'm not sure either western RR had catenary track for electrics like the GG1 to run, but the GG1 would be handsome in UP livery as well.  Interesting concept.

From someone with 16 scale GG-1's in as many of the road schemes as the GG-1 had, I say . . . .

 

BOFFO !

I recall someone in the 1970's repainting an AHM HO GG1 in SP Daylight.

 

Rusty

OK, Terry, Matt, Lee, Josef, Elliot, Rusty - I just want to let you know that you're all going straight to train **** for those thoughts.   There you will be sentenced to playing with broken wind-up and wooden trains. 

 

 

Well, at least the warbonnet paint scheme is better than anything painted for Penn Central.

 

George

The is cool!

 

Brad

The war bonnet is one of the best looking if not THE best looking diesel paint schemes ever.  It looks fantastic in SF and D&H colors, on Es, Fs and sharks, even modern engines.

 

The GG1 is one of the best looking if not THE best looking locomotive ever, but as far as its paint scheme, Raymond Loewy had it right.

 

As much work as you must have put in to this and as much as I have tried to like it, I just can’t.  But I will have to agree with Brian, George and Dave...It DOES look better than PC or Amtrak black.

 

Bob

You've proved it...the war bonnet looks great on just about any locomotive.  Me being someone who would never buy a GG1 in Pennsy paint, I love your what if paint scheme.  That I would buy.

Not bad! If i were to have any Santa fe in my collection it be that one!

Although the GG1 is my favorite..... Haha.

If your interested I have an extra Williams scale gg1 shell if someone were to want to do a project such as his.

Looks sharp!   Thanks for sharing with us.

My Goodness! That looks fantastic. 

I love it!

 

Beautiful job.  

 

Seems like I recall someone at one of the manufactures saying "we could paint a brick in Santa Fe colors and it would sell".  Wait until they see these photos

 

Thanks for posting,

Don

Need to do one in the black warbonnet or do an A-B-A set up in the traditional silver and red.

 

Now that would look cool!

 

Jerry

Well, I'm a Pennsy fan, and I must say, it looks terrific. Too bad the SF didn't electrify,  I'm sure the PRR would've loved to sell a couple hundred units to the Santa Fe back in the day .

Can somebody please tell me the best way to rinse vomit out of a keyboard. 

Well yes, any locomotive would look good in SF's warbonnet. But, OH MY!!

What's Penn Central?

great job...the second best custom GG1  paint scheme I've seen...only because I love the McGinnis!

 

This is a really cool looking paint job. Well done! I love the Sane Fe and I am not offended.

A creative and fantastic job!

 

(Just don't send it here please!!)

stop,stop overload,,,,,in up,daylight,nh,,,,,,,,want them all,  how out kcs,,or gn,,fec ,list goes on good thing painting , isn't my talent 

Beautiful paint job!

A B&O passenger paint job would be cool too!.

 

 

 

 

Jerry

Thanks to all of you....even those who lost their cookies.  Half the fun was knowing the results would produce surprise, controversy and maybe a tiny bit of offense.  A casual look around the net showed GG1's in Great Northern, Milwaukee and New Haven but thankfully I never found one in warbonnet paint.  Had there been 2, A unit decal sets on hand then it might have gotten the double end treatment.  The extras in the set for E's and B units were certainly needed for the wrap around stripe.  If only the GG1 had no right hand grills I would have positioned the flying Indian head logos there.  Paint is Dupli-color lacquers and I borrowed the pair of pants off my MTH GG1... they snap right on the Williams shell perfectly.  I really need to find the rest of a Williams GG1 though.  The plan is to continue the overall SF effect by painting the side frames, pilots and all silver.

 

Bruce