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SP Lives Nov 8, 2010

  1. bremner

    bremner Staff Member

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    look at loco #146...perhaps they were planning that when the merger talks started
     
  2. SP Lives

    SP Lives TrainBoard Member

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    i have allways wondered why they put it only on 146... does anyone know?
     
  3. Wings & Strings

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    SP #1988 is here! What other engines do you want paint for?
     

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  4. subwayaz

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    Tom your not only quick , but good as well. Nice job:thumbs_up:
     
  5. SP Lives

    SP Lives TrainBoard Member

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    this just blows me away!!!! i only wish i had the money to get every unit in the SP heritage fleet
     
  6. Wings & Strings

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    Revised it as much as I could

    I checked photos of the left-side of the engine and moved the lettering fot thr Rio Grande back a smidge. It will now clear the converter box on the other side if you center it in the same spot on the left side. However, I couldn't move the logo to between the phrases, but I'd recommend keeping it in the space at the back of the long hood on both the left and right to ensure there's room for it. (So on the left-hand side, it will be after the phrases, while it's before them on this side)
     

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  7. MRL

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    Since I saw the UP 6361 SP paint AC44 with UP spelled out in reflective red on the long hood. What you need is to take more UP AC44's and put SP in Roman on one unit, as well as speed lettering on another, you could even do a few with cotton belt spelled out in Roman and speed too!!! Just a thought!
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  8. SP Lives

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    well it seems the logo goes over the vent or whatever it is in the back and i cant do that on the model... what i was saying was have the logo underneath the phrase if you can shrink it a little. the sunset logo i will be using for the loog is the large logo on the front of SP's 48' containers whcih is smaller than this but it still looks cool the way you did it i will just have the painter put the logo under the phrase
     
  9. SP Lives

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    wow ive never seen that before!!! i will consider it... i have two things to say... first i would only use speed letters as i am not fond of the old stlye letters on SP locos as it was far too small second it is hard to find UP ac4400s that have the words Union Pacific on them. Most of the models they make have the flag and i cant have the building America seen anywhere on my line.
     
  10. MRL

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    Take the flag and all off the long hood and put red speed lettering or white, probably white since up did thier red on the SP to be opposite.
     
  11. SP Lives

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    well i would BUT there is no way to eliminate the flag without painting over it. Due to this there will be a HUGE yellow mark over the flag and it would be obvious that it used to be the flag i am OCD when it comes to my models so this i could not do... i willl try to locate some of the most recent AC4400 run athearn did as they were both the old style letters.
    ALso my SP has cotton belt merged in as the real SP did so i couldn't put cotton belt on a UP loco
     
  12. Wings & Strings

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    SP #1980!!!

    Here's another one! Have any more ideas? (BTW I found the actual font and "R" logo for this one.)
     

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  13. MRL

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    So they are kind of like a Kato and the lettering dosen't come off very well with alcohol? Maybe alittle ether or brake fluid quickly to loosen the protective coating but not get to the styrene completely...
     
  14. MRL

    MRL TrainBoard Member

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    OK these ACe's are looking good, the RI and SP look great!!! Maybe some BN proud of our heritage...
     
  15. SP Lives

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    well i don't know i am young and inexperienced so i do not try this... i am actually looking for someone who is experienced in this method to remove some decals for me...
     
  16. southerntiertrains

    southerntiertrains TrainBoard Member

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    Kato units needs to be sandblasted with baking soda or fine sand with a abrasive airbrush
     
  17. SP Lives

    SP Lives TrainBoard Member

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    the units i am talking about are athearns
     
  18. Wings & Strings

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    SP #1999

    Here's the next one!
     

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  19. Wings & Strings

    Wings & Strings TrainBoard Member

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    Wings are clipped

    upon request...
     

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  20. SP Lives

    SP Lives TrainBoard Member

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    thanks :thumbs_up:
     

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