NJ Transit F7A

[cnj1524]

I have been building this over the past 3 years,finding parts
at the train shows and things from the parts bin,well at this
point I bought an athearn F7A at a show for $12 dollars,detail
kit from walthers for $6 dollars and some other detail parts
such as the bell,beacon,ant,hep mufflers,I will have a total of
less than $40 dollars,I modified the front windows with a kit
(cant remember who made it)but it has laser cut windows to
to give it the correct look and I found decals for it $2 dollars





HEP mufflers came from old preiser fire truck

I should have this done by next week

[cnj1524]

That is the name of the company,I couldnt remember because
I took them out and tossed the package,there will be better pictures soon when complete

[nysw240]

Here is my NJ Transit F7A based off of there 423 . I started with a B&O Athearn F7A and hand painted the shell sliver repainted the roof black added a scratchbuilt muffler DW Beacon ,CNW bell Atlas airtanks on the EMD Trucks hand bent wire for the handrails and lastly Microscale decals . it is also a dummy but i plan to re make it using the walthers F7A and fully detail and paint it with my airbrush. yours is coming along great! also I got the F7 from my friend so i spent about $15.00 for everything!

[Randy Earle]

Now who couldn't afford that? Excellent!

[stillbre]

I especially like the HEP exhaust. I'll have to look into doing that when I finally get around to doing my NS executive units.

[wvsecondary]

What paint did you use to get such an excellent surface? Was that metalizer or something else?