Model Railroading > An Alco Six-Pack to Paint: Part 1

I’ve started painting the six kitbashed Alcos. Follow this link to my original post:
https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?3,4265986

Photos 1, 2 & 3:
The first one, CNW 1515 is complete. The weathering was done with airbrushing, chalks and colored artist pencils.

Dennis

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Photo 4: Prototype photo of 1515. New Ulm, MN 1975 Tom Flemming photo

Here are two others in process.

Photo 5. CGW 52 is ready for weathering.
Photo 6. CNW 1551 is ready for decals. The yellow is actually much darker; the lighting and camera white balance are not playing nice together.

Dennis



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/23/17 17:02 by CNW.

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You have been busy Dennis. Outstanding work as usual.
Regards,DK

Excellent Work !!!! Thank you for sharing. Gerhard

Wow! 1515 has so much character.

Excellent modeling!

Dan Boehlke
New Ulm, MN

Always Terrific! I wish my weathering work was 1/2 as good!

TJY

wow beautiful great work

Looks fantastic. Just the right amount of weathering.

Great job. I want to see if your crewmen's shirt sleeves have the same dirt on them!

Mark



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/23/17 20:45 by mwbridgwater.

Terrific work. Well done.

KG

Great job on the weathering, suttle and not overpowering. Very realistic.

Stanley Jackowski
Valrico, FL

Clean lines!

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Masterful work here!

~RGDave
http://onondagacutoff.blogspot.com/

Spot on, as always! I'm intrigued about that CGW unit. How long did that one hold on in CGW paint?

Thanks,
- Jeff Carlson

bnsfsd70 Wrote:
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> Spot on, as always! I'm intrigued about that CGW
> unit. How long did that one hold on in CGW
> paint?
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> Thanks,
> - Jeff Carlson

I believe it was still red into 1976, which I use as my layout modeling era.

Dennis

Very nicely done as usual!

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON

what kind of paint do you use thanks

Dilworth Wrote:
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> what kind of paint do you use thanks

I only use acrylic paints. On the C&NW engines, the yellow is Polly Scale and the green is a mixture of Model Master Green Gloss and Flat Black.
On the CGW engine, the red is Model Master Chevy Engine Red and the black is Polly Scale Engine Black.
The Model Master paints airbrush very nice; better than Polly Scale in my opinion.

Dennis

Just for the record ( I know this is an old post), the CGW #52 was in Proviso IL in June of 1976 wearing red paint, by September of 1976 she was in C&NW colors.

Mike in GR