Share Your Repainted Locos!

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This started as a damaged postwar Burlington shell that I repaired and painted in the fictional  Gukf Southern and Ohio scheme which combines the best elements of GM and O,Minnesota and Saint Louis and Texas Special schemes. I put on an MPC Geep chassis. 

Here are some of my repaints.
Love the Prewar 150 series and the Prewar 4-wheel passenger and freight cars, fun and easy to do

The 2025 was my first repaint and was done in the mid 80's, The pictures were taken about a month ago. Notice The piping was ground off and re-dun with cotter pins and piano wire, dry transfer lettering. Bell and whistle not original, but looks good. This was my rendition on how Lionel should of made the loco. It has the original plastic tender with hand rails added.

Bassett Lowke

MTH GP40 painted for Western Pacific 3532.  I didn't paint this, but when I saw it on Ebay I had to have it.  After the weather warms up, I'll be building my spray booth in the garage and doing a few custom pieces.

Wow I painted that WP 3532 several years ago.  Nice pic!

You did a beautiful job on it. Where did you find the decals?

I had those custom printed by ELS decals, who no longer is in business. He did a good job on them for sure. 

Unfortunately, I have only one loco on my roster that I have recently redone. I have sold the rest lol.

  Here is my MTH Royal Hudson that I did some modifications to as well. I picked up a 2nd MTH Royal

Hudson(#2851) for Christmas, that I will be performing a similar treatment too as well

 Al

Not mine but my brother just did these from a bunch of spare parts. He did have to machine a few of them.  

This should be on it's way to me tomorrow.  

Ha!, I found some pictures of my old 249E and 600/601/602 passenger cars in LCT colors.  Before and after pics.

tcox009 posted:

Bassett Lowke

Nice, I have a Duke of York and Prince Charles that need that treatment.  Nice work!

Dennis Holler posted:

Ha!, I found some pictures of my old 249E and 600/601/602 passenger cars in LCT colors.  Before and after pics.

Very nice! I like the Lionel color scheme! How did you strip the rust off of the cars and the trucks especially?

Nice work folks! 

Here are some of my repaints;

On this one, I think I used Evaporust.  now I use electrolysis.  Then Eastwood chemical blackening kit for the trucks.

corsair29 posted:

Not mine but my brother just did these from a bunch of spare parts. He did have to machine a few of them.  

Love it Steve!  I have a grey modern 785 I want to repaint gunmetal and make it 763E like.  What color did your brother use?  Was it the Gunmetal repro paint or rattle can?

Thanks

Jeff, this is why, when I saw this beautiful model for sale, I had to have it. 

The 8 year old posing with the Family Days crew with the 3532 is me, with my Dad. I rode the cab all day and even got a chance to take the throttle for a while. 

Your model has a good new forever home where it’ll always be a cherished reminder of one of the coolest things I ever got to be a part of.  Growing up on the WP was wonderful and started a lifelong career as a proud railroader.  

Great pix on this thread. I've always enjoyed body-fill, prep and paint on lightly or heavily abused postwar items. Compared to some of the pix ahead of this post, I'm a piker, but here's a few anyway.

Wes97 posted:

Dennis Holler posted:

Ha!, I found some pictures of my old 249E and 600/601/602 passenger cars in LCT colors.  Before and after pics.

 

Very nice! I like the Lionel color scheme! How did you strip the rust off of the cars and the trucks especially?

Great job, looks like a Lionel product that they should of sold.

Lionel 736

tcox009 posted:

Lionel 736 

Very nice, great job.
I have a 736 and just maybe?

Dennis Holler posted:

 

 

 

 

 What color did your brother use?  Was it the Gunmetal repro paint or rattle can?

Thanks

Total repaint, switched pilots, added winterization hatch and air tanks.

Added the yellow and switched frames

re-decaled not paint involved

repainted from gray to silver, painted trucks added baggage door ,decals and new silhouettes.  Messed up a decal on this side.

Here is a lionel 2018 that I repainted for my first 3 grand children Ella, Rhiannon, and Callahan. The engine number 709 represents the years of their birth: 2007 and 2009. The tender in an ubiquitous 1130T that I added a modern air whistle to. To make room for the whistle, I cut out the cast in coal load added some side extensions to the coal bunker and fashioned a new coal load allowing space beneath for the whistle. I also replaced the pill type smoke unit with a liquid smoke replacement. 

I also added engineer/fireman figures and glued a photo of a locomotive backhead onto the loco's backhead. Cheap but effective...

Next is my Frankenstein Trainmaster. The Frame, drive-train, and reverse unit is Williams. The shell, and stansions are MTH. The railings are floral wire. The horns are Precision scale, Head light and markers are Evan Designs. Paint is Scalecoat and decals are Shell Scale. As an homage to the Postwar FM's, I used an after market decal for the "FM" symbol. Also added is an ERR sound commander...

Mark Diff posted:

Here is a lionel 2018 that I repainted for my first 3 grand children Ella, Rhiannon, and Callahan. The engine number 709 represents the years of their birth: 2007 and 2009. The tender in an ubiquitous 1130T that I added a modern air whistle to. To make room for the whistle, I cut out the cast in coal load added some side extensions to the coal bunker and fashioned a new coal load allowing space beneath for the whistle. I also replaced the pill type smoke unit with a liquid smoke replacement. 

I also added engineer/fireman figures and glued a photo of a locomotive backhead onto the loco's backhead. Cheap but effective..

Next is my Frankenstein Trainmaster. The Frame, drive-train, and reverse unit is Williams. The shell, and stansions are MTH. The railings are floral wire. The horns are Precision scale, Head light and markers are Evan Designs. Paint is Scalecoat and decals are Shell Scale. As an homage to the Postwar FM's, I used an after market decal for the "FM" symbol. Also added is an ERR sound commander...

Great work, I like your tender modification.
Your grandchildren must of got excited over this?

Mark Diff posted:

Here is a lionel 2018 that I repainted for my first 3 grand children Ella, Rhiannon, and Callahan. The engine number 709 represents the years of their birth: 2007 and 2009. The tender in an ubiquitous 1130T that I added a modern air whistle to. To make room for the whistle, I cut out the cast in coal load added some side extensions to the coal bunker and fashioned a new coal load allowing space beneath for the whistle. I also replaced the pill type smoke unit with a liquid smoke replacement. 

I also added engineer/fireman figures and glued a photo of a locomotive backhead onto the loco's backhead. Cheap but effective...

 

Next is my Frankenstein Trainmaster. The Frame, drive-train, and reverse unit is Williams. The shell, and stansions are MTH. The railings are floral wire. The horns are Precision scale, Head light and markers are Evan Designs. Paint is Scalecoat and decals are Shell Scale. As an homage to the Postwar FM's, I used an after market decal for the "FM" symbol. Also added is an ERR sound commander...

the backhead idea and extended coal pile are really cool!

An old twin motored Santa Fe

Mark Diff posted:

Here is a lionel 2018 that I repainted for my first 3 grand children Ella, Rhiannon, and Callahan. The engine number 709 represents the years of their birth: 2007 and 2009. The tender in an ubiquitous 1130T that I added a modern air whistle to. To make room for the whistle, I cut out the cast in coal load added some side extensions to the coal bunker and fashioned a new coal load allowing space beneath for the whistle. I also replaced the pill type smoke unit with a liquid smoke replacement. 

I also added engineer/fireman figures and glued a photo of a locomotive backhead onto the loco's backhead. Cheap but effective...

 

Next is my Frankenstein Trainmaster. The Frame, drive-train, and reverse unit is Williams. The shell, and stansions are MTH. The railings are floral wire. The horns are Precision scale, Head light and markers are Evan Designs. Paint is Scalecoat and decals are Shell Scale. As an homage to the Postwar FM's, I used an after market decal for the "FM" symbol. Also added is an ERR sound commander...

beautiful job Mark!

I picked up a beat up 2328 Burlington GP7 several years ago for cheap. I model the AT&SF so after an order from Microscale I ended up with this.

I finally had the opportunity to take some pics of a repaint I did.  This engine began life as an MPC Southern 2-8-2 built on the PW 726/736 by substituting a 2-wheel trailing truck.  these models seem to have had a problem with paint--I have been told they were Mexican manufacture--and I ran across one that had been painted red for a circus train. 

These engines bear a strong resemblance to the MoPac 1121-class Berks assigned to the International-Great Northern (of Texas), so I bought a replacement 4-wheel trailing truck, added number boards, generator, and bell and a fireman's-side-mounted Worthington feedwater heater.  The paint was Rustoleum Gloss Black and Testors Gunmetal.  The decals came from Oddballs, a source long lost to us, which is a shame since they were very high quality.

I did this work almost 20 years ago, now.  The engine has taken a few lumps since then, including having been launched across the room by my son releasing the catch on a recliner just as the engine ran by its foot.

My K-Line Pacific from ATSF to N&W.

There are some very nice repaints here! I'm hoping I can find a professional painter who isn't afraid of being adventurous. I'd love to have my Lionel F40PH NPCU repainted into Amtrak's Veterans colors to match my MTH Amtrak Veterans P42DC. 

Can't wait to see what else gets shared, so many quality repaints.

Big Jim posted:

My K-Line Pacific from ATSF to N&W.

Nice work Big Jim!

palallin posted:

I finally had the opportunity to take some pics of a repaint I did.  This engine began life as an MPC Southern 2-8-2 built on the PW 726/736 by substituting a 2-wheel trailing truck.  these models seem to have had a problem with paint--I have been told they were Mexican manufacture--and I ran across one that had been painted red for a circus train. 

These engines bear a strong resemblance to the MoPac 1121-class Berks assigned to the International-Great Northern (of Texas), so I bought a replacement 4-wheel trailing truck, added number boards, generator, and bell and a fireman's-side-mounted Worthington feedwater heater.  The paint was Rustoleum Gloss Black and Testors Gunmetal.  The decals came from Oddballs, a source long lost to us, which is a shame since they were very high quality.

I did this work almost 20 years ago, now.  The engine has taken a few lumps since then, including having been launched across the room by my son releasing the catch on a recliner just as the engine ran by its foot.

Post war never looked so good!

I had a pair of Williams Budd cars in Pennsy livery. I wanted to add a second pair. I acquired a pair of Reading Budd cars and repainted ends and sides to match the Pennsy units:

Here is the Reading units, one stripped and the other one waiting...

Here it is one I added LED Headlight and Red Markers...shown along side the original Pennsy version

and the other with Green Markers and LED Headlight...

and here are all four, the repaints on top...

Here are a couple MTH SD70M-2 locos I painted in CN colors, along with adding fixed pilots, and full length handrails. 

My 254, finished product as well as in progress.

Have quite a few projects going on, but I do look forward to doing some more repaints. Quite a few posts here have given ideas and inspiration.

Tim

Mark Diff posted:

Post war never looked so good!

Thanks!  Your RDCs look factory!

This photo isn't the best, but here is a Rail King Berkshire I repainted for my Dad and lettered for the Wheeling & Lake Erie. I repainted another Berkshire and an 0-8-0 Switcher, but can't seem to locate the photos currently