Another brass loco project - repairs and painting.

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Great job!
Most inspiring, but........
Unless you had written permission from ReadingBob, I find the desecration of Reading Green objectionable. Guess I'll have to go hide in my safe space.
Sarcasm suspended.

Chip,

Thank you for the very kind words, much appreciated. I didn't need or get Reading bob's permission to use the Reading Green. He knew if he objected, I wouldn't let him spend another six months of his time building one of my fine, very fine craftsman kits.


Sarcasm always welcome.


Tom

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I also finished the Judges PFM Sierra Railroad logging 2-6-6-2 loco.



This loco now has the TCS WOW Sound installed. I used to install all my DCC decoders but the Judge and I are paying a friend to do it for us. I'm just to busy in retirement to do it.


I save about four days a month by having Jon do the DCC installs.



Notice a few little paint dings on the side of the front right running board. This happens when sound is installed and is no big real. I wait until the weathering process to touch up the paint prior to weathering. After weathering it goes on the layout and won't be touched.

Continued in a few.

[sdrees]

Tom,

Your work on the locomotives is fantastic.  The Sierra Mallet is great and I have one that has never been painted and I hope it looks as great as yours does one of these days.  But first, I have to get some track down so I have a place to run it.

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This loco is an oil burner and still needs a few tender details added. I'll show them when finished.




Continued in a few.

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The Atlantic and Southern RR now has it's own logging train. We have the A&S 2-6-6-2, five log cars (without logs at the moment) and the A&S #5 bobber caboose.






The logger stopped on a siding and the conductor noticed that the cattle were trying to excape the slaughter house by jumping from the GN cattle car.

I think the "Eat more chickun" cows are behind the escape.



Four down and four to go.

Tom

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Tom,

Your work on the locomotives is fantastic.  The Sierra Mallet is great and I have one that has never been painted and I hope it looks as great as yours does one of these days.  But first, I have to get some track down so I have a place to run it.

Steve,

Thanks very much for the very kind words. I appreciate you taking the time to stop by. The 2-6-6-2 wasn't the easiest paint job I've done. Now get some track down.


Tom

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Back to the work on the C&O J-3 4-8-2.



I'll have much more on this loco tomorrow.

Tom

[Twopoint2]

Wow you got a lot of brass, nice work on all the projects Tom.

[GPdemayo]

I like the logging loco and train Tom.....came out great. 


Can't wait to give it a run around the room.....I promise not to go into warp speed with it. 

[ACL1504]

Wow you got a lot of brass, nice work on all the projects Tom.

Jim,

Thanks for stopping by the thread, your kind words are appreciated. When I was younger, much younger, I traded my paining for store credit and got most of the brass that way.

Tom

[ACL1504]

I like the logging loco and train Tom.....came out great. 


Can't wait to give it a run around the room.....I promise not to go into warp speed with it. 

Greg,

Thanks Butty, much appreciated. You can't go warp speed on this one due to the gearing. The Judge got it up to 25 and I told him to be careful as he was getting close to "Greg speed".

Tom

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this stuff is just beyond amazing to me.


John

[ReadingBob]

this stuff is just beyond amazing to me.


John

I certainly agree.  I'd be afraid to take one of these things out of the box let alone tear 'em down, repair them (or in my case break them  ), detail them, paint them and then weather them.  Oh yeah, I forgot the part about installing decoders and speakers.     Absolutely amazing!      

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this stuff is just beyond amazing to me.


John

John,

Thanks for stopping by and posting your comment. Thank you for the kind words, much appreciated.

This is really just basic brass paining and repairs, although if you've never done it, it can seem daunting.

Thanks again Butty!

Tom

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this stuff is just beyond amazing to me.


John

I certainly agree.  I'd be afraid to take one of these things out of the box let alone tear 'em down, repair them (or in my case break them  ), detail them, paint them and then weather them.  Oh yeah, I forgot the part about installing decoders and speakers.     Absolutely amazing!      

Bob,

Your comments are much appreciated. I compare my brass projects to your structure building.

Absolutely amazing Butty, thank you.

Tom