My first tinplate restoration

Excellent work, Matt! Looks great!!

Looks great!

Looks better than new, great job!

Good job, looks great!!

that looks great, nice job.

Looks brand new to me.  Considering this was your first restoration effort, you sure knocked it out of the park.   

Thanks,

Ed

Always love to see the basket cases come back to life. Nice job.

Thanks guys it was a really fun project but soooooo much work. I wish I dint have to give it back to the customer but he was blown away.  Every casting on the loco needed to be replaced and it took forever to get the paint right. I painted the tender shell like 8 times. Gloss black is so unforgiving. Wen thru 2 full cans of Rust-O-leum black Lacquer paint

you have inspired me to try....... baby steps on my latest circus tinplate car....

Matt,

I think the best fun for me in this hobby is bringing broken rusty trains back to life.    None of mine were to the extent you needed to do on that tinplate but I can imagine the effort it took to get the fit and finish you accomplished.  I think I would have wanted to buy it from the owner rather than give it back.

Ed

slick !!

Beautiful job!

Ray

Thanks guys, I really do appreciate the compliments

Nice job....I like to restore old Tin Plate too. I have been using Krylon and Dupli-color from the auto parts store...I bake them in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 degrees...it seems to smooth out the paint...They really come out nice.

real

Matt, Really nice work on your project. Ed mentioned above about the fun of bringing something like this back to life.  I would second that. 

Tom 

#AMAZING GENE!! very nice work.... lotta love going into those. <salute>

Baking does smooth out the paint and makes it rock hard too. I left the tender in for too long and it got all kinds of weird spots similar to water spots on it and they were in the paint. The finish was smooth and glossy but had all these spots so back to the garage to strip the paint it went