This is my fantasy paint Army locomotive.
Last week, I was searching an auction site and saw a custom painted scale Class A. It was painted a light green and lettered for Army. This really got me thinking. I have a Lionel LionMaster N&W #1234 Class A. So I decided to paint mine like the one I saw at auction.
I have an airbrush that I use often, but I chose to go with a rattle can for this project. In the past I have used Model Master Olive Drab for U.S. Army models, but for this project I used Rust-Oleum Camouflage 1919 Deep Forest Green.
I removed all the add-on details and masked the areas that I wanted to stay black with green Frog-Tape. Then sprayed away. Only can was used to do the locomotive and tender. White decals are Archer dry transfers. I painted over the numbers board and put U.S.A. instead of the numbers.
Here she is...
Some more pics taken before assembly...
I didn't get a pic of the tender together...still need to decal it. The tender, on the auction site, had just a large star in circle on it. I may do that with mine.
Top of tender and the coal load were masked and left black.
