The real things varied from polished stainless steel and bright shiny red to silver painted steel and eggshell or satin sheen red and certainly stained stainless, to dull and stained silver paint and quickly dulled in service red. One forgets or may not be old enough to recall how fast paints, especially reds and blues dulled and chalked with the type paints available back in the 1940's and 50's.
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BobbyD posted:Richie C. posted:Picked up my ABA Super Bass set last week at Charles Ro and, even though my new layout is still under construction, I couldn't resist temporarily hooking up a transformer and Legacy and running this beautiful set with a few MTH El Capitan passenger cars and taking a video and a few pictures. Very pleased !
Nice, enjoy!
Could you post an image of the A unit coupled to the baggage car so we can compare the stainless panels? Thanks!
Don't have pictures, but I hooked up a B unit next to a Lionel shiney aluminum Santa Fe passenger car, and (no surprise) the engine's "stainless" panels don't bear a whole lot of resemblence to the car. Lionel's "stainless" engine panels are brighter than the silver paint, but are nowhere close to shiney, like the Atlas engine panels are. The Lionel engine and car are fine together, though, although if Lionel had put a more realistic shine on the panels it would have looked better. Not a huge deal for most folks, I'd guess.
BobbyD posted:Richie C. posted:Picked up my ABA Super Bass set last week at Charles Ro and, even though my new layout is still under construction, I couldn't resist temporarily hooking up a transformer and Legacy and running this beautiful set with a few MTH El Capitan passenger cars and taking a video and a few pictures. Very pleased !
Nice, enjoy!
Could you post an image of the A unit coupled to the baggage car so we can compare the stainless panels? Thanks!
Sorry, Bobby -didn't see your post until last Friday.
Attached are a few pics with the A unit on the left and the MTH baggage car on the right. The side panels on the A unit are more of a painted silver color and the baggage car a more metallic color, but IMHO the discrepancy isn't that great. The real difference is in the roofs of the MTH cars which are very shiny.
Richie C. posted:BobbyD posted:Richie C. posted:Picked up my ABA Super Bass set last week at Charles Ro and, even though my new layout is still under construction, I couldn't resist temporarily hooking up a transformer and Legacy and running this beautiful set with a few MTH El Capitan passenger cars and taking a video and a few pictures. Very pleased !
Nice, enjoy!
Could you post an image of the A unit coupled to the baggage car so we can compare the stainless panels? Thanks!
Sorry, Bobby -didn't see your post until last Friday.
Attached are a few pics with the A unit on the left and the MTH baggage car on the right. The side panels on the A unit are more of a painted silver color and the baggage car a more metallic color, but IMHO the discrepancy isn't that great. The real difference is in the roofs of the MTH cars which are very shiny.
Thank you. Enjoy them!
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