Doorstop Diesels

[bob turner]

It gets Warbonnet. Sides and grille are stainless, roof, skirts, and trucks are to be silver paint. Thinking of going for Molotow chrome instead of stainless, although this color is growing on me.

Whaddaya think of the trucks on the A unit?

[up148]

It gets Warbonnet. Sides and grille are stainless, roof, skirts, and trucks are to be silver paint. Thinking of going for Molotow chrome instead of stainless, although this color is growing on me.

Whaddaya think of the trucks on the A unit?

Very detailed and really set this model off. What mfg? I like the paint now, but never followed modeling SF so don't know the best paints to use....but it looks really sharp.

[bob turner]

Doorstop CLW sand cast. Lionel trucks on the A.

[De Bruin]

Beautiful model, trucks and car body both, I'd be tempted to stick with the Alclad sides and just apply the warbonnet, #;s, road name, stripes etc.
Not as big an issue for you, but if you had a large existing roster of SF passenger cabs then you'd want superficially the same look scheme wise and (opinion) certainly is a big difference between Alclad and other silver/aluminum/stainless steel paints.

I'm impressed with the look of your Alclad application, I've not been able to apply it successfully like that in my past attempts, the second silver coat always interacted poorly with that base application, even after weeks of curing the first coat.

[bob turner]

I did it all at once over Scale Coat gloss black. Used the entire bottle. Dries fast; took ten minutes. Now I have none left for the B trucks.

[bob turner]

Parked it next to a stainless cup. The dark color is extremely close. I am going to try some polishing compound and Future Floor Wax.

Entertaining! I may blow another $10 and try it again, this time looking for perfection. I am always in a hurry when painting.

I note that where I touch it it seems to oxidize quickly.

[R.K. Maroon]

High-resolution photos of Bob's Alclad PA and PB can be seen here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mjugb6ebrpgegph/Alclad%20PA%2001.JPG?raw=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eso53kv34s2r0sp/Alclad%20PA%2002.JPG?raw=1

[bob turner]

Chris started us up again after almost a week, so I took the time to get some photos - Here is the AFT PA, in its very rough form. It has overspray here and there, and the nose needs to be perfected, but I always wanted one of these:

[bob turner]

I guess I am the only person here avoiding the big parties - there is a Super Spreader gathering going on at the Stearman hangar as I type. I think I shall isolate, and continue work on the Mexicano for a minute.
Meanwhile, here is how the etched CLW B unit mates up to the all sand cast CLW PA:

[ScaleCraft]

always liked those honorary steam engines.

Only was able to obtain H0 Athearn units in A and B.

Bigger issue was the lack of PA's on the NP.

All trucks powered?

[bob turner]

Never power B units. Six axle power on both A units - one really large Pittman in each - much larger than the 9434. I think they are 4000-series.

I have since then graduated to the 8000s - one over each truck. But my sprockets are starting to split.

[De Bruin]

...always liked those honorary steam engines.....Bigger issue was the lack of PA's on the NP.....

What? you mean my American Flyer NP PA's aren't prototypical?
I don't believe it 8^)
But yeah, I like these a lot and especially that AB set Bob has cobbled up. Awesome. The AFT unit is interesting too, the prototype wound up on the GM&O.

[ScaleCraft]

...always liked those honorary steam engines.....Bigger issue was the lack of PA's on the NP.....

What? you mean my American Flyer NP PA's aren't prototypical?
I don't believe it 8^)
But yeah, I like these a lot and especially that AB set Bob has cobbled up. Awesome. The AFT unit is interesting too, the prototype wound up on the GM&O.

Oh, yeah. Artistic License.
Back 35 and more years ago you couldn't get 3-rail NP F7's from anybody. After our house fire, my ATSF warbonnets were black with smoke damage. A-B-A went NP Loewy, A-B went NP Pine Tree.
Back in 90 or 91, had a convention, my small pike (at the time) was open, with the NP F's, and a string of custom painted NP streamliners. Two guys from Lionel came, got all excited, took lots of photos, promised NP stuff..and 3,4, 5 years later, came out with an NP passenger set. Beautiful cars, nice FA all neatly painted...guess how many FA's the NP owned?

Then FT's. NOBODY made them in 3-rail. I picked up a A-B in sand cast bronze, always thought Wentzco, but the roofs aren't right. Machined them and a Lionel 2343 set of frames, painted NP freight black.
25 pounds with two motors and four axles of magnetraction....they will pull teeth!

[E7]

Dave, Could have been worse! What if you were an Aberdeen and Rockfish fan?

[bob turner]

This week Trainz is selling an etched CLW PA for around $400 with good transmissions on four axles, and in the same general area is selling an all-cast CLW PB with one truck presumably powered with one of those solid block transmissions that were known to eat gears. No link for Dave, since my point is that Trainz has decided that dirtbag doorstops are nkow half again as valuable as the more modern stuff.

Hooray for my collection! I always thought they were stuck at a hundred bucks each, max.