Share Your Repainted Locos!

First, a clarification, I did not paint this.  I did however have the good sense to buy it when I saw it.  It is a repainted Lionel 520.

Chris Sheldon

This one is based on a real Fallen Flag, but is purely fictional:

My junkbox 4-8-4 and Black Diamond cars

Modified and repainted MTH Rio Grande 10-wheeler.

Before & after of a Flyer 293 Pacific:

Rusty

I have others but this one is in process, slow process. Building an Army train from a prewar 262 and a few cars

Repainted beater 2383's by CJB custom design and painting.    Love the redone PRR Turbine at the top and no to far fetched had the real one been more succesful.      Mike the Aspie

Here's a Flyer K5 I rescued from a junk box.  Repainting it gave me the opportunity to install a can motor, LED headlight and get rid of die cast parting lines in the casting.

Before:

After cleaning and polishing of the side rods with an automotive polish (Wenol):

Locomotive:

Tender:

It's amazing how much detail is seen once the thick paint is removed.

Hey Jerry - That looks like my first locomotive from Christmas 1949!   Mine is a No 310 that we painted just like your about 25 years ago

Here's a Lionel CB&Q E5 that  had painted into SOUTHERN #2800 several years ago. Always liked the Tuxedo scheme

The Lionel F3s are PW repaints

I would like to post a photo but have no idea what the keyboard shortcuts to paste are.

Nairb Rekab posted:

I would like to post a photo but have no idea what the keyboard shortcuts to paste are.

Brian,

Just copy a photo (I press Ctrl + C) and then put the cursor where you want to paste and press Ctrl + V.  The photo will be embedded in the text.  At least that works for me on my PC.  Similar on a Mac. But substitute "command" for Ctrl.  Looking forward to your photos!

     Vulcans  - 

Scott Smith

FireOne posted:

First, a clarification, I did not paint this.  I did however have the good sense to buy it when I saw it.  It is a repainted Lionel 520.

Chris Sheldon

Here's a similar one in  Standard Gauge one. As you probably guessed I like the NH railroad. I'm slowly selling my O gauge items such as the one above and moving to standard.

I guess I should probably list the green one that is seen in the picture above.  

I'm not very good at repaints but i have done a few.   #3166 is an ex MP engine.

Frisco #717 is a repaint that I purchased.

#1455 is parts of parts of parts.

MP15 #85 is ex K-line KCC MP15 with Lionel GP dummy trucks.

And Slug #118 and GP7u are parts of parts of parts.

Pete in Kansas, I did not even care much for New Haven until I saw the little 520 I bought.  Quickly developing a jones for New Haven.  Love your standard gauge version.  You know what that means, dang it!  Another line to collect.

Chris Sheldon

Here are a couple...

A Postwar 44 tonner re-painted for the Seattle & Yakima RR

  Bill

Steamer posted:

My junkbox 4-8-4 and Black Diamond cars

That's awesome! Tell me how you put that together! Looks like possibly a few prewar and postwar prairie engines went into this?

A Lionel PW 2333 NYC pair AA that were very badly chipped in the paint, now are MP F3 motive power.  The Burlington F3s were some "throw away" St Fe AAs, now restored to pull my K Line CZ  21in cars.  With both units powered with dual AC Pulmor motors, and the E units tethered together, they have no problem pulling the 13 extruded aluminum cars. No, I cannot take credit for these fine repaints.But they do add two necessary lines I did not have before.     

Jesse     TCA   12-68275

Ex NYC RF16 #1213. Now S.B.R.R. RF16 "Sharknose" 2A

I would love to see a repainted engine into any AWVR scheme from Unstoppable.

some #8 beaters shells

Wes97 posted:

Steamer posted:

My junkbox 4-8-4 and Black Diamond cars

That's awesome! Tell me how you put that together! Looks like possibly a few prewar and postwar prairie engines went into this?

Well thanks! I had two 1666 shells, one had a bad front, the other a bad rear. Out came the hacksaw and JB Weld.

a 224E/675 type motor,some sheet metal and an extra axle.

some scrounging and junk box parts

first time I did a project like this. Didn't turn out too bad considering who did it 

This is a Weaver FB2 originally painted GN.  Will be doing another soon with the yellow striping. 

(same silver cars brushed on with 50 year old Kresgee "real aluminum" paint)

It's Rock Island caboose is now gold to match the RI&P Generals

This one was.cured in a freezer to haze the gloss; faux aging.

So ugly I cut it up so it would be half as ugly.

Adriatic posted:

That last one is pretty cool! I'm assuming you were going for this:Good job on that!

Wes97 posted:

Adriatic posted:

That last one is pretty cool! I'm assuming you were going for this:Good job on that!

Semi scale or not; someone had to

Nairb, you might see your pictures, but I dont, and many others dont either. It's because your photos are still on your system and not hostable from there as is. They are not downloaded to ogrf yet. I.e., the copy paste doesn't work for everyone and you need to upload the picture to ogrf.

  Start a post/reply by clicking in the composer box (Sometimes I need to type a letter for Android to get noticed) On an Android you may have to go to desktop mode in the browser and or tilt to horizontal/landscape veiw, but in the lower right, in the blue of the text tool, in dark blue text, a paperclip & "attachment tool" appears (and at the same time a composer toolbar appears up top...if your browsers desktop veiw works right). Click it, find the photo and choose it. While it is loading, more can be chosen. Wait for loading, wait for processing. When done, consider checking "insert into text large size", then finish. Wait for pics to actually load (video takes longer) and there is a data limit per post, I forget exactly, but about 30 sec of video, otherwise you have to host it elsewhere and link (auto) or embed (tool at the top)  If you didn't check " insert as large" you have to set the cursor and choose the size manually for each picture (in blue, with each photo, "insert" is listed at the bottom.)

  If you don't insert the photos in the text, they may not be viewable for some people. Clicking the photo to open the photo browser doesn't always work for everyone

I left the repaints to the pros.

Malcolm (Brother Love) altered the road name of the ALCO S-2.

Bernie Winkler altered the two EMD's shown (he did two others, not shown).

The #635 is stock, but I created the #7003 for a set.

The #624 is stock, so I made the #405. 

This is one of my few successful attempted at printing decals on white paper with a background to match the loco paint.

I don't have this one any more – but I still like the way it turned out.

If I could do this one over again, I'd use lighter paint colors.

The #325 turned out great; the #301 was quite a challenge, and, in the end, the yellow band is too wide.

Made from old Kusan shells.

A good friend of mine passed away about a year ago so when I was on a visit to the mainland I visited his old layout. His daughter showed me around for one last look. I saw an engine I painted for him sometime in the late 70's. He had wanted a 1776 engine so I painted him one. I forgot I had done it for him. This is it. Don

The NWP locomotive was painted for me by Scale Rail.  Tnx, Don!  Matt