Post a Picture of a Engine Repaint Job

Here's some more Marx projects. A Santa Fe ABA in freight colors, a Reading AA & caboose and a customized Wm Crooks & tender. The loco now has a straight stack and the wood load removed from the tender and replaced with coal. The Fort Worth & Western RR name was done to match the New Marx Tarantula RR passenger set.

Steve

Very nicely done Steve, much more professional job than mine.

Charlie

thanks Charlie. if viewed in person you can tell the diesels were made from combining badly damaged shells. i have units to do a Canadian Pacific ABA someday. the FW&WR was done with a nice piece to start with. looking for another engine & tender to letter for Virginia Truckee.

Steve

Here is a 318 I got new at York for a very good price but I didn't like the color so I did it in black to run any color I want behind it.

Here is my 408E dummy repaint.

Chris, you need some black hoppers (coal cars) and a red caboose with a black roof to run behind that 318!

Lionel 253 restored a few years back:

I have a few Marx 1095 Santa Fe F3 diesels 

Actually they are E7's NOT f3's

Hornby Pullman

PW 736 Berk

Bob Gale Super Classic Reading T-1 2124 in her Iron Horse Rambles paint scheme

I restored and repainted this Carlisle & Finch No. 4 loco and tender a couple of years ago.

Another engine paint job as I had too many black steamers of the 2-4-2 Lionel version.

To bad this photo does not show the coal tender. 

Keep the pictures coming.  They are great and your paint jobs put my spay can painting to shame.

Charlie

Here are two "before and after" restoration photos of my Lionel 1700 Hiawatha Jr and my Lionel 253 Electric engines.

II've had these Sakai's since the mid 50's. I repainted the rear one. The Hogwarts is also a good one to repaint.

T

Any new repaint jobs to share?

Charlie

Here is a Rich-Art 256. I only painted the roof and frame. For whatever reason, they used flat black. I did this one for Jeff Meyer's.

This was a junker 1688 shell. It has been repainted along with a spare tender. It is also re motored with a Marx 333 smoking motor. I still need to order new nameplates for the sides.

Steve

I had a 1688E I was planning on doing that exact same thing with Steve. Never got around to it though, the shell is still sitting in my closet. Nice to get a good look at what it could look like though!

So far I only have 1 tinplate locomotive (out of 2 working ones that I own) that I've repainted, as seen on an earlier thread.

As a 3/16ths O lovin' guy, I have to say that's one well done bash!  The Marx mechanism looks like it was designed to go under that shell - did you have to do much work to fit them together?

I enjoy looking at the repaints. I've been searching for a few Std Gauge as well as O-Gauge power units to redo. I own many original Std & O-Gauge that I inherited from my grandpa. Most of these still have their original boxes.

I've bought a few pieces from others that have been redone. I run these more and more. My favorite Std Gauge passenger cars are the very early 32, 35 & 36. The #'s 33, 38, 50, 8, 10 & 318 are my favorite Std Gauge Electric units.

Please keep the photos coming. I need ideas of where to go & what to do.

i paint mine with automotive paints..since im a autobody painter for 33+years.............

Not tinplate......but repainted........

WbB Dash-9 loco. I too use auto and hobby paints. Duplicolor primers and whites with Tamiya blue and yellow.

Lionel General reworked and repainted in Toy Story II colors with custom decals.

I do a lot of repainting and reworking.

bought a postwar Lionel 2018 at a train meet for $18.

No tender. looked like somebody had tried to paint it with

a paint brush. It was a hack job. Strip the old paint and repaint

with "Ballet Slipper" pink. right outta the spray can.

Had many at shows ask me if it was a real girls train, even had

someone make me an offer on it. NOT FOR SALE!!

just a simple black repaint

Some more Marx 1095 work:

here's a 254, painted black to look more like the 318 that headed the coal train. Also painted the coal cars and caboose to make this set in O gauge.

Tim

My Marx 1666 pretending it's an N&W K class Mountain (kinda like the story of the little engine that thought it could!).

Her's my Marx 666 with modified pilot

The Walker-Fenn usually came in a flat black paint, but since this one had to have some body work done, I decided to go with a more colorful scheme:

Charlie, Floquil makes a color called "Old Silver", which you can mix with either flat or gloss coat, or 50/50 for semi gloss. I had a friend use it on a Burlington 44 tonner, and it came out really well. 

Steve, is that a William Crooks repainted? I have a customer that has one with a broken roof support, it is a wind up and is OK otherwise. It has the tin tender in good shape, but your repaint makes me brave enough to tackle it. 

Gentlemen,

    All I can say is you are seriously talented people, some of those restorations are just incredible. 

Reading Fan,

     Your Reading steamer is just beyond fantastic!

PCRR/Dave

Some very excellent repaint jobs.  Repainting a junker is one my most fun projects. 

Lets see some more.

Charlie

Here's my repainted Marx 999. Not just a repaint, but also a reworked pilot to liven the front up a bit, not to trick people into thinking it's a rare closed spoke engine. Also added sand pipes, just because I could. The tender is a former 4 wheel 7" item. Looks good on the point of a Marx 3/16" scale tin train.

that looks fantastic! do you have any more pics of those? I've wanted to do a NKP tender conversion myself for a while now. 

Here are a couple I've repainted.

Williams Brass RF16 Sharks

K-line Conrail MP15

Williams F7

Lionel Nw2

Couple more.

MTH Scale Engineering Sample Painted for Coca Cola Passener set

Williams Nickle Plate Road Baggage car done up in Coca Cola livery

Williams 4-8-4 GS4 Painted for Coca Cola also outfitted with Led Headlight/ Mars Light and Fan Driven Smoke unit.

Marx steam engine customs......In the first three photos a stock engine is on top for comparison, with a custom one the bottom.

All of these are repaints:

Very nice!  

Wow! I always thought the Marx 591 was a homely little thing, but a bit of TLC and a real pilot truck makes a BIG difference!

Been kinda thinking of doing a Southern styled 666. Yours looks pretty good!

Thanks! The conversion's pretty easy. Hardest part was hacksawing off the original axle mounts and filing the cut edge flush with the rest of the frame. I used the same holes the couplers were riveted in to mount the trucks.

An SD70M repainted in the Brisbane & Bushong Railroad livery.  Our motto is, "We bear your freight!"  Matt

Oh I'm liking those! especially the Southern.

Thanks,
Steamer and handyandy!  I appreciate the comments.  Doing this kind of work on decrepit pieces has been absolutely my favorite train activity.

I know what you mean. I'm the guy on the floor of the train show going thru the junk boxes!

harry repaint of a WILLIAMS brass AB freight shark nose set from the 1980's.

Me too. I've been sort of a model railroad bottom feeder since I was a kid! 

You guys must get to the shows before me a lot of times. Sometimes those boxes of junk I find really are junk (even by my standards) by the time I get to look through them!  lol

Here is a Std Gauge Flyer 4019 & Coaches. The 4019 was done a few weeks ago, but the car roofs are were painted earlier today.

Here is a Lionel 1688 with a Marx 333 motor. I did this engine to pull the U&R Mfg coaches seen behind it.

They all look beautiful, Steve.

My first 898 I restored, actually my first engine. I only have the photos of the engine took apart and the results when I posted them on one of my forum topics.

Andy, I'm also one of those guys that loves junk!  There ain't much I won't take home   Those rusty Red 600/601/602 cars turned into the Orange and Blue cars for my home brewed Lionel Corp passenger set.

The top pic is the original paint scheme.  The bottom pic is the new paint job.  Matt

Nice painting guys, those diesels are are looking real good

OK, here's my Lionel Alco S-2 switcher.

Before (in Western Pacific livery).

And after (as Weirton Steel #208 courtesy of Tommy Gilbert's in Gettysburg, PA)

Photo probably doesn't do it justice.

George

Here's a Williams SD45 shell in a color scheme I developed for the Gadsden Pacific Lines, home railroad of the Gadsden Pacific Toy Train Museum. I wanted something that expressed the color palette of our desert environment in Southern Arizona. I call this color scheme Desert Tan and Red Rock. The shell is going to stay like this until I get some decals made for it, so I can add the decals and clear coat before I install the handrails. 

The SD45 shell was a challenge to mask because of all the panels and louvers on the side. It's very difficult to mask those small grooves. It was a learning experience and I will know how to do better on the masking next time. This was also the first time I used my new Paasche VLS airbrush. I love it - it's 1000 per cent better than the old Aztek. 

This is a lionel New Jersey transit gp-40 that I repainted as a White Pass and Yukon Route Diesel.

Ghosts of repaintings past...

Ex-MPC JLC Hudson:

Ex-MPC Alton Hudson:

Ex-MPC Great Northern F.A.R.R. "Northern:"

Ex-basket case Lionel 736:

Rusty

Here are some I have done.

Commodore Vanderbilt that I repainted and installed a double reduction motor and smoke unit in.

My favorite Marxie is the little 999.  Lots of possibilities in terms of paints themes.

Keep the pictures coming. Repainting ole black engines is real fun.

Painting Diesels is fun too.

This is Marx 1998 engine motor and frame with cut down Lionel SW-1 switcher body painted in B&N colors (Bauxite & Northern, sub of Alcoa in Bauxite, Arkansas).

It is a custom job with Lionel coupling on the rear and Marx coupling on the front to allow switching both types of cars.

Charlie

Here are a couple sets I have done over the last few years!

Here is a pair I recently completed.  They looked on my Christmas tree loop!

Marx Commodore Vanderbilt.

Marx Canadian Pacific 397

wow! those are stunning Jack 

Long before Atlas came out with there version all I had was this...

This originally was a postwar 623 switcher.

Here is the prototype...

{Robert Callahan Photos}

Thank you, Dave!  I was pleased with the way they turned out.

Well, this thread has com back again! I'll add my latest repaint I guess....

My Copper Commodore!

I was told by a forum sponsor that my two engines would take 2-3 months for a repaint. That was 5 months ago and I still don't know when or if they will be completed. I'll leave him nameless.

Joe B.