Tad, Here is a first shot of it. Haven't got my engines painted yet, but here is an ore jenny for my home layout. Haven't dullcoated it yet at this point, airbrush is plugged up and needs cleaning......
You did them "overpaint" style , kind of like I did my woodchip hoppers. They do look pretty sharp. The dullcote should blend them right in. Looks like you have a little fleet of the ore jennies to do. How do you like working with homemade decals? [ February 21, 2005, 09:54 PM: Message edited by: Tad ]
tad, thanks. yeah got a small fleet started, going to do a galena mine for my home layout. that will let me keep with smaller radii on my trackwork. the homemade deacals were not too bad. solvaset smeared a couple of them pretty bad. but i made extras, so i just peeled them off and replaced them. i have some clear decal paper on order so i can start on my home road locos here pretty soon. beast
Pretty good feeling when the fleet starts to come together. THere's nothing like a string of cars with your own road on them. Just one of the many joys of running a free lanced line.
Nice ore cars! Lead mine, eh? Are you modeling the area around SW MO, SE KS and NE OK? That part of the country is riddled with abandoned lead & zinc mines, as well as headhouses and chat piles. My own freelanced O&NE runs thru the mining area in northern Ottawa County, OK, but in the era it runs, it only hauls chat from the many large piles in the area.
frisco, yep doing the same area, but completely fictionalized towns, etc. basing it off of family & friends names. i remember the chat piles well, went to juco in miami and went out there quite a bit. slowly getting hauled off and sold. can't see very many from the turnpike now. beast
