Really nice work, Mitch, the units are looking very sweet. I'm a bit of a closet admirer of MP. Whose beacons are you using? Look like the old Loco-Motives type.
Mitch, what is you method for stripping off the cab numbers with chameleon stripper? I have been trying to find away to change a few Santa Fe -9s into BNSF.
Mitch, Thinking about the numbers for the locomotives Would 6064 and 6057 be ok? as 64 and 57 are the years myself and my wife were born
Light strokes with stripper and a q-tip is what i use to remove lettering.Mitch showed me how to do it.You can see what is comming off by the color of the cotton on the q-tip.You will loose a little of the silver but it shouldn't go all the way through.Trial and error is the best way to learn this.
ahhh Pinkster-san..... you have learned well from Master Mitch, and are showing others the way of the Chameleon very good. may you continue along the path to enrichment and lotsa' BNSF stuff
Mitch, That will be excellent I'm really looking forward to receiving them and posting pictures back to you
well here is the 6064 done, i have the 6057 almost done but my battery went dead on the camera, tell me if you like colonel. and btw the class lights and nose headlight do work. [ 10. April 2003, 05:12: Message edited by: Mopac3092 ]
Mitch, What can I say other than they are fantastic and i'm sp pleased you have the nose light working as well I really didn't expect that. How did you do it?
Mitch I don't like em'.Make them BNSF again please .....Dude another one of your masterpieces.Very nice job.But I still am a little partial to the BNSF.But the Mopac did run with the BN hmmmmmmmmm ......... [ 10. April 2003, 14:35: Message edited by: Ed Pinkley#2 ]
clint the answer to your question is yes, that is the only reason the mopac bought units with dynamic brakes so they could run through on the bn the coal fields. and no bnsf colors are gross, looks like someone slaughtered a pumpkin on halloween , so don't ask if you can borrow any of mine not gonna happen, i will get pics up in awhile of how i did the class and head lights.
Mitch, You once agin have outdone yourself. How did you make the class lites and nose lite operational??? Fiber optics?? Ncredible!!! Must see more!
Hey Mitch....how about when you ship them back you just send them to me. I'm sure Colonel won't mind. While looking at the pictures I decided that a couple of those would look good rolling around my layout....
All I can say to that is NO WAY lol those beauties are headed to Australia. Mitch has done a fantastic job and i'm really looking forward to having them back on the layout. They will be the pride of the fleet and going straight back into service.
OK what you all need to do is look at the finished pics above.Do you see the little ringlets on the top of the engine?While boastfully I can say I have already seen these engines the other night ,Those little rings are detail parts Mitch adds to the units .The pics look neat but the engines look neater in real life.Colnel YOU will be all the envy of Austrailia with these units ! [ 11. April 2003, 04:00: Message edited by: Ed Pinkley#2 ]
Oh I intend on taking the units to my old N scale club and showing these off. It is xcellent to have a custom painted loco that nobody else has
ok here are some pics of the fiber optic soon to be installed and after. i forgot to mention that there is alot of trial and error when trying to make headlights nand such from this wire, the ends are formed by placing the wire next to a heat source causing a lens shape to form, it is easy to use alot of this wire when trying to make these lenses if not careful. these are the class lights and new nose headlight it will be installed in. and this is the area of the small amount of filing needed on the frame for the wire to slide between the frame and shell. [ 14. April 2003, 04:40: Message edited by: Mopac3092 ]
