Anyone who knows me knows I'm a fantasy kind of guy and a weathering nut also. This time a fantasy without the weathering a shiny new SD40 in the somewhat CAT scheme. I really dig the CAT yellow and thought this would work out good on a SD40. Just wonder if anyone else did a locomotive in the CAT scheme as I've not seen any at all.
JDR was working on an SD70ACe a few years ago. http://www.trainboard.com/highball/...ar-sd70ace-almost-out-of-the-paintshop.69542/
Hmmmm....looks very "EJ&E-ish" !!! I LOVE it, but it appears to be orange on my computer screen. I would like to steal your idea, if you don't mind. There is a local Caterpillar dealer here, so I might be able to get the paint (CAT has "their" shade of yellow copyrighted. Thanks, UP !!!) and decals / stickers / emblems. Anybody know if exhausts remained the same with CAT re-powers ???
Yeah your computer screen might be off a bit. The color I used was Badger TTX yellow which was as close as I could get to the CAT color.
Looks better today !!! Not sure which was "off". The computer, me , or BOTH !!! Regardless, I still like it !!!
Looks very plausible actually, considering that CAT is doing all kinds of experimental Tier IV work, is tied in with EMD, and is doing a sorta-kinda version of this on the SD70: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3d/e8/2c/3de82c5e695afd3e0eb97e506fd4ba85.jpg