"New" Vintage Project....

Greetings strummer, Trains Inc, Is this an O scale model? I know you dabble in H.O as well.

Looks like it would be fun to run as well! Pittman motor perhaps?

cleanedup nice!

btw, a hair off topic, what year is your ES 335? I had an early orig Casino once. Same color.

leroof

This is an HO scale model.

The guitar is an Epiphone "Sheraton"; pretty much a 335 (I had a 1981 once). This is beautiful and plays like a dream. 😊

Mark in Oregon

Got this thing running; kinda noisy (no surprise there), but not "terrible" either.

Dunno if you can tell by the photo, but I tried to remove the tarnish (from the roof area)and realized this has a lacquer finish; any suggestions on how to remove that, so I can get to the actual brass?

Mark in Oregon

@Strummer posted:

This is an HO scale model.

The guitar is an Epiphone "Sheraton"; pretty much a 335 (I had a 1981 once). This is beautiful and plays like a dream. 😊

Mark in Oregon

Another hobby near and dear to my heart is music.  While my electric guitars consist of two Strat knockoffs and a Hagstrom surf style guitar of Swedish design, I am the proud owner of a Gibson fretless bass and a Fender Jazz to go with my two workhorse Dean 4 and 5 string basses.  I've always like the hollow body electrics however.   

We won't get into the vintage keyboards, drum sets and other oddball music gear I have accumulated over the years.  Once a collector, always a collector?

By the way - another nice HO find!  Do you plan on painting it and if so, what road name?

@GG1 4877 posted:

By the way - another nice HO find!  Do you plan on painting it and if so, what road name?

Thanks; I get lucky sometimes.

I typically don't paint my brass engines; I feel that, although not particularly "realistic", the natural brass color just looks elegant. Plus, once painted, brass looks (more or less) like any other material.

In this case, if I did paint it, I would probably go with a nice Maine Central gold and green scheme from the '80s; the MEC got that batch of ex-Rock Island U25s, and since I lived in Maine once, that seems like it would be a logical choice...yes?

Mark in Oregon

@Strummer posted:

Thanks; I get lucky sometimes.

I typically don't paint my brass engines; I feel that, although not particularly "realistic", the natural brass color just looks elegant. Plus, once painted, brass looks (more or less) like any other material.

In this case, if I did paint it, I would probably go with a nice Maine Central gold and green scheme from the '80s; the MEC got that batch of ex-Rock Island U25s, and since I lived in Maine once, that seems like it would be a logical choice...yes?

Mark in Oregon

I like the Maine Central scheme quite a bit.  You are correct that once painted, brass locomotives look like any other locomotive.  I'll have to photograph my Tenshodo GP9 and F7B I painted in CNJ green.  They turned out quite well, but you are correct.  No one would  know they are brass.

Looks like a small double shaft Pittman is in order,….😉..

Pat

@harmonyards posted:

Looks like a small double shaft Pittman is in order,….😉..

Pat

Could be... although I think most of the noise is generated by the rather funky nylon drive universals and brass(!) "dog bone" drive shafts. The open frame motor (which looks identical to the KTM motor in the Alco Models RSD4/5 I posted about) runs very smoothly and quietly. Fun stuff, this...

Mark in Oregon