Absolutely no progress to show on the 2-8-8-8-8-8-2, although I do have a new boiler hinge design in mind. FV-Trains was up from Florida and visited last Thursday and brought along his new Electroliner to run. I studied the between-cars bellows on that model and it gave me ideas.
I've been focusing most of my energy on the streamlined cab-forward 6-4-4-4. The pictures below are based on a photo taken yesterday, when it was still in primer. It now has a new coat of Warbonnet type silver over everything but the cab, which I will let harden for a few days and them do red, yellow, black in that order. I have three different possible paint schemes in mind as shown below, all variants on Warbonnet, of course. Just curious which people like best - I don't promise to follow anyone's suggestions, but I will appreciate any input.
