Lehigh
Valley
Railroad
SW1 #112.
USA Trains
NW2
kitbashed into a SW1.
1/29
scale.
Scot
Lawrence
Page 3.
November
4,
2005
DEconstruction
begins! USA
trains did
a nice
job of making this engine easy to disassemble!
The
only wires
I snipped
are these 4 wires running into the cab.
(I have several more detail shots of the wiring..I wont bother to post them all. if anyone wants to see them just drop me a line.) woo! all apart! 3 large
bits
of blue plastic a few
of the
round handrail
eyelet things didnt want to come out, and the
handrail actually pulled
*through* them, leaving the eyelet behind with a
crack in it. thats everything so far! next
up..strip
the paint!! November 19, 2005
paint
is
stripped!! November 20, 2005 Cut!
December 6, 2005 the
shell is
together!
squadron putty applied and sanded.
next,
primer
and paint! December 12, 2005 Designing
decals.. Thanks
to Ray over on
the LVRR forum, I got accurate prototype
details for the stripes! next,
send the decal order
to Stan have them printed, spray on some
primer, and test a few reds.
I re-did the decal sheet, enlarged the drawing of the SW1 to full-size for 1/29 scale, then cut and pasted my decals onto the drawing with photoshop, without re-sizing them at all.. here is the result:
and
here is my final decal
sheet! :P
thats a
reduced-resolution
version for posting on-line..
December
19, 2005
we have RED!!! Lehigh
Valley "Cornell
Red" is a very controversial color..
after trying out a few flavors of Krylon reds, I found a great one!
December 22, 2005 Decaling
begins... Scot
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