Reply to "What's On Your Tinplate Restoration To Do List?"

Originally Posted by electroliner:

Bob

The paint job on the BiPolar looks really good. Any closeups?

Bruce

Bruce,

Unfortunately, I don't have a closeup but I'll try to find the BiPolar and take several.

You're right. Dick did a great paint job! That's him in the photo above. To match the Milwaukee Road (UP) paint scheme he even painted gray the normally black plated trucks, which required him to build and install special electrical pickups to circumvent the paint on the trucks. Unfortunately, both Dick and his RichArt assistant, Butch Alvarado (see photo below), died before they had a chance to build me the matching RichArt 710 series passenger cars. That's why I now need to assemble and paint some of my RichArt 710 series passenger car kits to go with my unique RichArt BiPolar.

The Tinplate World certainly lost two superb craftmen when Dick and Butch passed last year.

Bob Nelson

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