Modeling Union Pacific's Generator Car UPP #2066 **Completed**

Epic Failure on Painting the Red Striping...Update

I have spent the past few days fixing my Oops's. This is as good as it will be, other than stripping the body down to the plastic and starting over, and that ain't going to happen. Using a #00 paint brush and magnifying goggles I was able to get things back to where they should be. Is it perfect? No. Is it straight, Yes. Am I pleased with the outcome? About as well as could be expected.  I did have to get up and walk away a few times, just 'cause I was having to re-paint it.
Anyway, Here's a couple of pictures of the finished product.



After I put the final coat of clear back on that side of the car. I taped up the other side using the orange hobby masking tape from Hobby Lobby. I ensured I only applied pressure to the painted edge of the tape. I once again layed out the tape using my machinist ruler using the lower scribe (red/gray) line as a reference point. Then I painted the stripes. I rinsed out the paint cup and then pulled off the tape very very carefully.
I was saying a lot of prayers that I wouldn't pull off the paint. I was very pleased with the results. A laser straight line with a few bleed throughs. But those can be cleaned up with my X-acto knife. After touching up some other areas, the whole side will get another coat of matte clear. Here's the after painting result.

More to follow in the next few days.

Excellent!

The Final Product!!

Good Morning Fellow O Gaugers! Today is a wonderful day to reveal the 98% finished product of my Union Pacific UPP2066 Generator Power Car. The reason is 98% is I still need to install the cooling fan grills and install the lower steps on the corners of the car. Now, The grills, Alan provided me with the grills for the fans. BUT, if I install them, you'll never see the spinning fans. Alan said he can print me some clear grills and this should afford me to the ability to see the fans in action. But before we see the videos. Here's a couple of pictures after the decals were applied. I will say that the Circus City Decals did well with being clear coated and my Oopps is hardly noticable.

And finally without further adue, the videos.

And lastly due to file size...

Is that exceptional work or what.

Very impressive final product! Paint job and lettering look top notch. The steam exhaust and moving fans are really cool.

One day when you have a UP "yellow excursion train" it will be a crowning statement of your hobbying.

- Ken

@Ken Gillig posted:

Very impressive final product! Paint job and lettering look top notch. The steam exhaust and moving fans are really cool.

One day when you have a UP "yellow excursion train" it will be a crowning statement of your hobbying.

- Ken

I am very pleased with the way it turned out. Even with the Oops mistake.

I have the full Bush Funeral Train. Now with the addition of this car, I only have one more car to make. That's the Portola sleeper car. Maybe next winter that one will get done.

Thank you for all the kind comments and suggestions during this build Ken.

I should have added some still shots of the car in my last post.

@Jayhawk500 posted:

I should have added some still shots of the car in my last post.

Fantastic, if I may what did you use to drive the cooling fans on roof?

@ThatGuy posted:

Fantastic, if I may what did you use to drive the cooling fans on roof?

Mini Micro Metal Gear Motor, Reduction Motor Geared Motor N20 DC12V Speed Reduction CW/CCW Micro Motor DC Gear Motor(DC12v16RPM) - Amazon.com

A list of items I used is on page 2.
I actually had two different speeds of gearmotors. I ended up ruining one of the motors with my solder iron and had to swap out a motor. I discovered that the worm gears are different for the different speed gears. I had to swap out both motors in order to get the speeds to match. I did not want to run the gearmotors fast due to noise issues. I have turned down the buck converter to 3 volts. The gearmotors run fast enough for the effect I wanted and there is no gear noise from having to run the gearmotors at full speed. It actually was a win-win for me.

@Jayhawk500 posted:

Mini Micro Metal Gear Motor, Reduction Motor Geared Motor N20 DC12V Speed Reduction CW/CCW Micro Motor DC Gear Motor(DC12v16RPM) - Amazon.com

A list of items I used is on page 2.
I actually had two different speeds of gearmotors. I ended up ruining one of the motors with my solder iron and had to swap out a motor. I discovered that the worm gears are different for the different speed gears. I had to swap out both motors in order to get the speeds to match. I did not want to run the gearmotors fast due to noise issues. I have turned down the buck converter to 3 volts. The gearmotors run fast enough for the effect I wanted and there is no gear noise from having to run the gearmotors at full speed. It actually was a win-win for me.

Thank you for the info