Hi, Thought you all might like to see some pics of my latest resto. Hennings paint, MH resto cab, and special thanks to Jeff at the Train Tender. 22 hrs to complete- not including drying time
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Looks great.
Steve
Beautiful job!!
That looks real good! What do you think about the color? If I remember right you were on the fence as to which paint to try and wondering if the paint color would be close to that original orange-ish red. Just curious, It looks great either way.
Right you are Dennis, I still think that the color is a bit red, but I think it blended in enough.
looks great!
TLH,
Real nice job, looks great!
PCRR/Dave
Great Job, love the color!
Question did you use a rubber stamp (can not see ion the pictures), decals or peal and stick on re lettering the cars?
Ron, Passenger cars were completely disassembled and the doors and windows were re-painted in Hennings cream collector color. The cars are lithographed so I touched the red up the best I could, rebuilt the trucks and reassembled. I don't like to use the decals or stamps and usually (if I can ) attempt to save the lithographed sections by painting in sections. Thanks for your inquiry
Looks like you are also pretty good at not "cleaning" the plating off the handrails!
Dennis, When I do restorations, I try and keep the train as original as I can. That said, there are always trade offs. Almost always, I dont go through the trouble of re-riveting. A purist wil tell you that if you paint a rivet, its not a good restoration. Well, I paint the outside rivets on the commodores so no one can ever sell the train down the road as unrestored. I have a press and could replace them or mask them but I dont. Again, its a trade off. As far as the rails, I clean them or use nickel stock and make my own. On the commodore, I also use a resto cab as most always the cabs are in bad shape on the trains that I am able to find. The MTH cab that you directed me to is really a nice casting. Thanks for that, it made this resto alot better than what I was going to use. By the way, I have got the Tender finished on the Blue Streak - The loco is next and finally those pesky two tone cars. I have my fingers crossed that I can pull this one off. Lol
