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Here are a few of my customs paint jobs, most of which were done by friends with painting and decal skills far superior than I have.

MPC era custom painted  ART reefer I picked up at a train show years ago, and an IC box car that started off life as a GN 6464 that I did many years ago back when my eyes were much better. .

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An MTH bay window caboose that started out life as a N&W caboose and is now an L&N caboose. I picked this one  up at a train show in Nashville.

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 An IC side door caboose and a US Hobbies  brass 2 dome tank car. The IC caboose started off life as a Lionel RI caboose. A good friend added the side doors and marker lights.  He also painted the caboose. I lettered the caboose.  Another good friend painted and lettered the Texas Co. two dome tank car.

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An Atlas troop sleeper converted to an NYC MOW crew sleeper. I painted and lettered this car. The crane tender car was a Lionel PS 4 NYC flat car.

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A new Atlas undecorated Troop kitchen car painted and lettered for an NYC MOW  Crew kitchen car by a good friend. I am still working on the assembly of the car's under frame.

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Tennessee Central 40ft steel boxcars that are early Atlas undecorated box cars. My good 2rail friend painted and lettered the boxcars.

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The same friend also painted and lettered these two undecorated Atlas Single sheathed box cars  - an IC, and a Tennessee Central.

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 Thanks to all who have posted some great pictures on this thread and to the good friends who worked on these cars for me.

Richard Gonzales

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Richard Gonzales posted:

Here are a few of my customs paint jobs, most of which were done by friends with painting and decal skills far superior than I have.

MPC era custom painted  ART reefer I picked up at a train show years ago, and an IC box car that started off life as a GN 6464 that I did many years ago back when my eyes were much better. .

IMG_2267

An MTH bay window caboose that started out life as a N&W caboose and is now an L&N caboose. I picked this one  up at a train show in Nashville.

IMG_2268

 An IC side door caboose and a US Hobbies  brass 2 dome tank car. The IC caboose started off life as a Lionel RI caboose. A good friend added the side doors and marker lights.  He also painted the caboose. I lettered the caboose.  Another good friend painted and lettered the Texas Co. two dome tank car.

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An Atlas troop sleeper converted to an NYC MOW crew sleeper. I painted and lettered this car. The crane tender car was a Lionel PS 4 NYC flat car.

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A new Atlas undecorated Troop kitchen car painted and lettered for an NYC MOW  Crew kitchen car by a good friend. I am still working on the assembly of the car's under frame.

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Tennessee Central 40ft steel boxcars that are early Atlas undecorated box cars. My good 2rail friend painted and lettered the boxcars.

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The same friend also painted and lettered these two undecorated Atlas Single sheathed box cars  - an IC, and a Tennessee Central.

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 Thanks to all who have posted some great pictures on this thread and to the good friends who worked on these cars for me.

Richard Gonzales

Very nice!

Tom M posted:

Alright time for me to add one.

This is custom from top to bottom. This is a 3d print of a White Pass and Yukon Route GE Shovelnose diesel.

Here is the prototype.

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My model is sits on a postwar alco frame with u36c 3 axle trucks. This has been in the planning stages for a while and I just finished the painting and decals a month ago. There are still a few detail projects to work on, but it will run around the tracks and look good while it does it too.IMG_20160903_094441052

 

 

WOW, who makes that print?

p51 posted:
Tom M posted:

Alright time for me to add one.

This is custom from top to bottom. This is a 3d print of a White Pass and Yukon Route GE Shovelnose diesel.

Here is the prototype.

ge100bennett20060611

My model is sits on a postwar alco frame with u36c 3 axle trucks. This has been in the planning stages for a while and I just finished the painting and decals a month ago. There are still a few detail projects to work on, but it will run around the tracks and look good while it does it too.IMG_20160903_094441052

 

 

WOW, who makes that print?

I found a guy who created the 3d model originally for n-scale. I  blew it up to fit on a postwar alco frame and still look right. I had it printed by a company called Shapeways out of New York, using a process called laser sintering. 

https://youtu.be/qCThfUhVftw

In the future I want to create an On3 model using a higher definition printing medium which would quadruple the printing price. In the $400 range.

Shoot me a message if you want to know more.

Richard,

They're mostly Great Northern but also have NP, DM&IR, UP, SP, CN, Burlington, B&O, Milwaukee, C&O, NYC, N&W, PRR and logging.  Most interfaced with GN but I have engines that I consider iconic in the 'steam' world.

A lot of work involved as all removable parts are disassembled, usually 75-150 pieces, and then painted.   The multi-colored engines take even more time as thin as 1/32" pieces of masking tape are applied before painting. 

Labor of love, obviously!

Richard,

HO and, yes, all brass engines.  It's amazing what they did in that scale back in the late 80's, early 90's:  Functioning cab vent hatches, closed cab operating doors, functioning smoke box door/sand box hatches/ top steam valve access hatches/tender water hatches and see through walk boards. 

Lately, I have installed micro LED's into the classification lights on the engine and tender.

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samparfitt posted:

Richard,

HO and, yes, all brass engines.  It's amazing what they did in that scale back in the late 80's, early 90's:  Functioning cab vent hatches, closed cab operating doors, functioning smoke box door/sand box hatches/ top steam valve access hatches/tender water hatches and see through walk boards. 

Lately, I have installed micro LED's into the classification lights on the engine and tender.

SP AC-5 4-8-8-2 cab forward key 36

UP big boy key 43

Very nice!

Back in the early 1980's, I was looking for another powered Alco to run with my Lionel Amtrak 8664.  At the same time, I had a UP 202 Alco with a distressed shell from a previous set purchase.  I decided to try my luck with an airbrush and repaint the UP in Amtrak colors.  To my surprise, it actually turned out quite well for my first and only custom paint job.  I put a random number on it (8523) and wired it to run in reverse.  It worked out quite well to pull a long train of Amtrak 027 passenger cars.

The picture of the UP 202 is a stock picture from the Lionel Library just for comparison.  My 202 shell was much more distressed than that.  It helped that local hobby shops of the time all carried specific Amtrak paint colors.  The third picture is a comparison to the Lionel 8664.

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Roger L. posted:

Back in the early 1980's, I was looking for another powered Alco to run with my Lionel Amtrak 8664.  At the same time, I had a UP 202 Alco with a distressed shell from a previous set purchase.  I decided to try my luck with an airbrush and repaint the UP in Amtrak colors.  To my surprise, it actually turned out quite well for my first and only custom paint job.  I put a random number on it (8523) and wired it to run in reverse.  It worked out quite well to pull a long train of Amtrak 027 passenger cars.

The picture of the UP 202 is a stock picture from the Lionel Library just for comparison.  My 202 shell was much more distressed than that.  It helped that local hobby shops of the time all carried specific Amtrak paint colors.  The third picture is a comparison to the Lionel 8664.

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Terrific work, well done!

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