Does anybody in N make a set of decals for the SP Halloween Scheme? I have a customer wanting to do set of F's in that scheme and we can't find them in the MicroScale catalog.
George - I'm not sure but I don't think anybody makes the Halloween decal. I masked my own it is a fairly easy scheme.
I don't think anyone makes those decals. No one makes a black widow decal for the nose of the F units. The halloween should be no harder than that. It is one that I want to model, too. Not only on Fs, but on PAs, too.
Yes. It is an F/covered wagon style. There are also halloween SD7s and switchers, but not as unique as the F units. All covered wagon units are very rare. I will look for another picture. It's later...Can't find one. All halloween B units were solid black. Only the A units had this nose scheme. One Alco PA had a red wings scheme, but the wings were orange on an all black engine. [ 31. January 2005, 15:30: Message edited by: sapacif ]
Crud, I thought that we might have had an opportunity as we just found a distributor with undec F3 sets still in stock.
George - As Flash shows with his photo, a few F units and only one PA2 were painted the Halloween scheme. the B units were solid black. The PA unit was #6039 and the B unit was # 5922. SP decided the color scheme was too "depressing" and they went full bore with the lark grey and bloody nose scheme. There was one more PA2 # 6034 painted solid black with the nose painted vermillion in place of the scarlet red. They should have left them all black; that way the lack of wash jobs wouldn't have been so obvious.
Lenny - The publication that I have does not have a photo of PB 5922. Excuse the quality of the following pics. My scanner has taken a dump and I took a photo of my book pages. Not the best. By th way the book is " PA Alco's Glamour Girl " by Andy Romano. Excellent coverage of all PA's broken down by railroad.
Not sure of this, but I think it was only Cotton Belt and they were referred to as the "bow wave" paint scheme. Atlas has made a model of this in the recent RS3 run. That was a fairly common paint scheme at the time. This halloween scheme was experimental. When the tiger stripe scheme was changed to solid daylight orange, that was also referred to as "pumpkin," but that was only for switchers, not covered wagons or F/E/PA units. John Barnhill and SP8299 know all this stuff. They are on the Espee fallen flags forum. [ 01. February 2005, 18:25: Message edited by: sapacif ]
Flash: I learned something new here. I thought the SSW was the Bow-tie scheme. Adding insult to injury it turns out that the distributor has a website way out of date and the dealer in CA who showed custom painted F3's in 'Halloween' on their website as actual was just doing a fantasy. [ 03. February 2005, 13:44: Message edited by: Wig-Wag LLC ]
