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Show Us 5 years 10 months ago #6218
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I also decided to take a few pictures of my other 35's out in the sun light. 3620/23/25 were painted using SCII RDG green and Polyscale RDG yellow with the white label.3622/24 were painted with SCII RDG green and yellow
     I do like the contrast in the yellow shades especially when mu'd    |
Show Us 5 years 10 months ago #6219
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Show Us 5 years 10 months ago #6225
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Reworked the weathering on my Atlas 265
 Originally I high lighted the detail on the body with pencil and blended it in with a micro brush. I reworked this using Tamiya panel line accent color (black)  I also lowered and mounted the drop steps. Looking at photos it seems to me that Atlas compromised and did not tool the drop step tracking low enough...I could be wrong   Proto type pictures showing TM's mu'd with other RDG power show the drop step higher as compared to an emd or alco. For the fuel spill I used engine and fuel stain by mig  Weathering powders were also reapplied  My goal was to give the unit a look of a hard working locomotive nearing the end of its career    |
Show Us 5 years 10 months ago #6226
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Along with the re weathering of 265 I installed the TCS wow decoder. My plan was to wait and see if TCS would have the proper sounds for the TM's when they introduce their version 5 of the 121 but decided to get one of my TM's running. I compromised using the Alco 244 along with the
Leslie a200 horn. RDG's TM's had Wabco H-6 horns. Anyway, on my carpet layout 265 is paired with 5207 pullig 45 loaded coal hoppers and the 244 and 251 sound great. Shots of the lash up      |
Show Us 5 years 9 months ago #6247
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Picked up my two undecorated Atlas C424's about three weeks ago and finished my 5205 yesterday really like what Atlas has to offer but the tooling on this model is really starting to show its age. Sad thing its the only option for a C424 with Rapido's announcement of the RS11 I see a lot of requests for the C424.
C424 5205  Many many detail parts were added from all the diferent manufacturers including the Nathan M3 tilt. Looking at photos of 5205 it seems the original horn was replaced with the tilt.   Four views of the unit's fireman's side     Three views of the engineer's side. The long hood hand rails are wavy... they came that way and I'm trying to remedy the situation.    Looking back to front right side  I used an emd fuel tank gauge to simulate the watchman heater vent on the rear top of the unit next to the sand fill  |
Show Us 5 years 9 months ago #6248
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At this time I'm running a consist of 5205/11/07 pulling a 50 car mixed freight all three units are equipped with TCS WOW sound and sound fantastic together with their 251's. Some pictures of the consist I really like the contrast of the paint shades.
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Did You Know?
September 6, 1945
#2100, the first T-1 4-8-4 steam locomotive, is outshopped at Reading.
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