BC Rail caboose in green?

Highball Graphics now has the decals in O, and I’ve ordered a set! Thanks again for the link!

Decided I wasn’t super happy with the primer, the can was almost empty and it splattered in a few spots... so I’m giving it an oven cleaner bath...

The oven cleaner is making a cool rust effect as it’s removing the white primer and revealing the red underneath...

The paint and decals are here... I’ve almost got all of the old paint off the shell...

Those of you who have used Scalecoat paints: would you recommend using a primer, or just spraying right on the plastic? I do have the scalecoat II paint (plastic safe), and the shell is molded in grey plastic...

I’m so impatient sometimes...

My gut said “prime it”, so I ran down to Hobby Lobby and picked up a can of Tamiya fine primer, first time I’ve used it... boy is it great stuff!

There’s only light green and black on the cupola, and no lettering, so once the green cures I can mask it off and hit the roof with black, then flat clear the whole thing and the cupola will be done...

Paint looks really nice so far. I've admired the BC Green too, much like the NP.

Light green on the body!

@harleyhouse posted:

Ho and N but no O  Christine Braden could do this one for you.

Essentially a nice job, but wrong shade up top! 

@Virginian65 posted:

Essentially a nice job, but wrong shade up top! 

It does look a bit light... a bit faded I suppose...

The light green from scalecoat matches the Atlas RS-3, I haven’t sprayed any of the dark green yet...

How did the oven cleaner work out?

@harleyhouse posted:

How did the oven cleaner work out?

Worked pretty well... I found a can of the “skull and crossbones” stuff on a shelf in the basement, that worked well but there wasn’t very much left. For some reason I had a hard time finding any oven cleaner in the stores around here, and when I did find some it was the newer “safer” lemon scented formula. That stuff didn’t work very well at all...

Dark green!

Black roof!

Painting completed!

Just gotta apply the decals, and give the whole thing a coat of flat clear, then put it all back together...

Decals applied!

Done!!

I’m really happy with how it turned out!

The light green dried a little bit lighter than the light green that Atlas used on the engine, but it doesn’t bother me at all... it’s not obvious unless the caboose is right next to the engine... let’s just say the engine had been shopped and painted more recently than the caboose, therefore the caboose is a bit faded...

The decals went on well, and they look great! I can highly recommend Highball Graphics! I sent them an email Friday evening asking if they could resize the HO decals to O, not expecting an answer until sometime on Monday... they responded on Saturday morning that they had resized them and added them to the website! Above and beyond expectations!

Edit: I somehow managed not to loose any of the grab irons!

Purdy!

Nice job all around 👍

Here’s a quick video...

Very nice job.  Looks great!

You nailed it! Cab looks awesome, and I'm glad they were able to upscale the decals.