Painting A Brass Locomotive for Erieman

[tom.boyd.125]

Tom,
Thanks for sharing your custom loco painting skills !
The locomotive you did for Frank looks really looks nice and your ACL fleet of steamers are all Best of Show winners . 
Tom

[S&S RR]

Tom


Great work!  So what do you do in your spare time?

[ACL1504]

I guess I can settle for pictures.
Tom, if you want to do a Milwaukee one let me know. I think (hope) I have a line on a Milwaukee 2-8-2 by Overland.

Andy,

Let me know what you are looking at. If it is an Ebay offering you need to be very careful and knw what youy are getting. If you have an Ebay item # let me know and I'll check it for you. Also, early Overland made crappy brass locos.

I've know some Ebayer to spray brass locos with brass paint and pass it off as something it isn't.




Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom,
Thanks for sharing your custom loco painting skills !
The locomotive you did for Frank looks really looks nice and your ACL fleet of steamers are all Best of Show winners . 
Tom

Tom,

You are very welcome and thank you for the very kind words, much appreciated.

I'm very pleased you are enjoying the thread.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom


Great work!  So what do you do in your spare time?

John,

Thanks very much. I appreciate you stopping by. Spare time, what is that?


Tom

[Janbouli]

Tom  , haven't said a thing yet in this thread , why , because every time I wanted to type something my jaw would drop on the keyboard, now I taped my jaw solid so I can finally tell you how great this thread is , Wonderful Oh Wonderful.

[ak-milw]

Thanks Tom it's # 111882891018. I have over half a weeks pay check bid on it right now, can't go any higher.

[ACL1504]

Tom  , haven't said a thing yet in this thread , why , because every time I wanted to type something my jaw would drop on the keyboard, now I taped my jaw solid so I can finally tell you how great this thread is , Wonderful Oh Wonderful.

Jan,

You are very kind my friend. Thank you for the kind words as well, very much appreciated. This has been fun but I'm not done yet!

Tom

[ACL1504]

Thanks Tom it's # 111882891018. I have over half a weeks pay check bid on it right now, can't go any higher.

Andy,

I'll send you a PM concerning the loco.

Tom

[tct855]

  Tom,
           I've enjoyed this thread build for sure, I only have one thing to say at this point.
https://youtu.be/uvUL28Skt6E 
Thanx Thom...

[ACL1504]

  Tom,
           I've enjoyed this thread build for sure, I only have one thing to say at this point.

Thanx Thom...

Thom,

Thank you very much. I appreciate your support.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Here's as quick update on Frank's loco.

I started the sound installation this morning prior to going to the airport to drop off a friend.

I'm installing a Heavy Locomotive  Tsunami decoder. This loco would qualify for a medium one as well but I like the whistles on the heavy loco decoder. This decoder came out of my ACL R1 4-8-4.



I positioned the 8 ohm speaker on the tender deck and glued it in place.

I made a test fit while the glue was still wet to make sure it was in fact the correct position.



Since there is a slight opening in the coal bunker I needed to block it off so the coal load will not fill the opening.

I started by cutting a piece of cardboard to fit the opening.



Continued in a few.

[ACL1504]

I cut the insert a little long so it would not fit length wise in the tender. You can see it slopes from back to front.



Continued in a few.

[ACL1504]

I then added some glue to the edges of the cardboard.



I then placed the tender on an angle so the glue would dry flat and not all run to the front of the tender.



Continued tomorrow.

[ACL1504]

I forgot to add this little part to today's thread. For the best electrical contact I can get between the tender trucks and the tender bolsters, I polish both areas. In the photo below you can see the top tender truck has been polished and the one on the bottom hasn't.