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RSJB18 posted:
p51 posted:

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Very nice Lee. Looks and sounds great! It needs a engineer and fireman. I assume your expert weathering is on the to do list too?

I don't know if I'd call what I do to poor unfortunate rolling stock as 'expert,' but thanks for the kind words.

Yeah, once I break this in, I'll be putting WW2-era Army markings along the side tanks ("USA" only, not "USAQMC" as was common for US Army Quarter Master Corps as I'd be explaining that every time anyone looked at it) and then a road number under cab side windows. I've settled on 5069, as that was a road number for one of the original Baldwin class 10s, and I recently turned 50, born in 1969 (and this was intended as a birthday present to myself, belated by two weeks due to Bachmann).

Then, yeah, some light weathering. they didn't go nuts with letting these things go even back then, so it'll get weathered about as lightly as my Whitcomb diesel.

At Fort Benning, they ran a small fleet of Davenports, copies of the Baldwin Class 10s. I'm using this and photos of them as a guide as to how to make them look. Note how they're clearly not OD green, even from the b/w film, unlike how the one on display at the Infantry/Armor museum there is now painted:

https://youtu.be/-BTtncKnS9k

I want to get a solider into the cab wearing herringbone twill fatigues or a coverall and what they called a "Daisy Mae hat," which sort of looks like a sailor's hat in dark color with the bill turned downward. Maybe he'd have a fireman with a steel pot on or not. But I need to find some 1/43 scale GI's to put inside this to show how small they really were! I'll also replace the plastic molded 'coal' bunker with real crushed coal and spill lots of it onto the cab deck.

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