Decaling complete and protective coat added.
As Tom Silva says: the money is in the details. Painting is easy, it's all the other stuff that's required!
Clear coat added to protect the paint and seal in the decals.
Did one engine at a time, mainly because that's all that fits on the toaster oven tray!
DM&IR 0-10-2.
Satin clear is my usual choice.
Unusual in that the number is under the railroad name. Decal sheet all 601 so easy to apply without having to cut up a bunch of numbers. Paint pen used on the running board edges. 'Cooked' in the toaster oven to seal the top coat.
Being made in 1967, the marker lights don't have the detail that later models have but again, you really don't see that when 'running' the train plus the LED's will light them. Pictures are the only time when people notice most details.
RF&P 4-8-4 was next.
I forgot to take a picture of the sand dome that got gold lines around it. That was a little 'tricky' getting it positioned correctly.
Glad the decal sheet has complete 'easy to use' striping.
Two separate 'sub decals' with the arrow pointing forward.
The cab number is on a raised platform. The engines are named after people.
LED wires go into those holes.
A conduit was against the back of the tender so I had to cut the decal in half to get proper adhesion.
MMM, That engine number on a raised plate will need some Solvaset to remove those air bubbles around the edges that I missed!
I almost missed the gold circles and what they were for; I happened to see a full size engine with them on the drivers.
And then there were 4 extra 'gold circles' and, again, noticed that the lead truck also has them. The gold circles were a little larger than the the model's raised center so the edges kind of bent around it when the Solvaset was applied.
ACL R-1 4-8-4. Not a whole lot of decals on the boiler.
The running board white line was with the paint pen. The white line on the side of the cab was with decals.
The tender will be painted a gray top half after the engine and tender wheels are assembled to get the proper line height.
New deliver. 4 more TCS 1517 decoders. With the 6 coming from TCS, I've got enough to get all my new and painted engines 'on the road'.
