John:
NICE paint jobs!
Dave
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Modeling the LIRR
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by Richard Glueck
John, beautiful paint work. I like the LIRR grey/orange stuff particularly, but the MP15's are so very well done. I believe I've seen your work on eBay. You have outbid me several times, you son of a silly person!
"We no take-a gasoline. We no take-a airplane. We take-a steamship! And that friends, is how we fly to America! - Chico Marx
by Richard Glueck
Most of my painting is now done with an airbrush. I have gone over to acrylics as they clean up more easily and done require dipping my hands in Floquil diasol thinner. I still use Floquil for a number of things, but less and less. The C420 is an ALCO models brass model I purchased off eBay. It was in SP "black widow", but SP never ran them. I stripped it and put her to right. The paint is Floquil, in a mixture that closely simulates the LIRR's. Same is true for the RS1, also an ALCO models product or the same generation (about 1970). These are on the eBay lists all the time. The decals were a gift from friend Al Castelli. The FA1 is a Spectrum model that started life as a NYC unit. I stripped it in isopropyl alcohol and repainted it in acrylics. The color is a military light grey that closely simulated "platinum mist". The yellow and blue stripes are similar acrylics. The MTA decals are again, from Al Castelli. I touched the trucks with a silver burnish, then airbrushed with "dust". The ALCO Diesel soot is Floquil engine black.
Pre-weathering and post-weathering images below.
Pre-weathering and post-weathering images below.
"We no take-a gasoline. We no take-a airplane. We take-a steamship! And that friends, is how we fly to America! - Chico Marx
