Rock Island GP18

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Just a quick cell phone pic of the CRIP GP18 I just finished tonight.  Old P2K kit, straight out of the box.  Better pictures will be added tomorrow if I can get my camera to take any decent pictures. 



Darn it, meant to put this in the cheap projects subforum.  Can a mod move this if need be?

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I REALLY like this one (and it's ok right where it is)!!

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Alright, as promised, here are some better photos.  As I stated, it's a DC P2K.  I picked it up probably 10 years ago.  I can't imagine I paid more than $35-$40 for it.  The kit is just straight out of the box, although I will add the firecracker antenna at some point and maybe replace the fans with correct ones too.  One thing I found in my research is that no two CRIP GP18's seemed to have their fuel tanks and trucks painted the same way.  Some had silver trucks and black tanks, others the other way around, some all silver.  One thing was for sure, not one had red tanks the way the kit came.  I went with black tanks and the silver trucks the kit came with.  I think it turned out alright...






And just for a little variety, a pic with a CRIP caboose I finished last week.

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Thanks! These two pieces are my first foray into Rock territory and I'm learning quickly that it seems like they never used the same paint or scheme twice.