Post by m636 on Oct 9, 2009 0:28:37 GMT -5
Hi everyone. Here are some other fantastic kits I haved built earlier.
YEAP. The unique CN GMD-1 in A1A and B-B trucks from Point-1 Models.
Point-1 was making all GMD-1 versions in resin some 5 or 6 years ago and it is no longer in production today
and they were not cheap but cheaper then a brass ;D
When I started to do some modeling in early 2000, I didn't like very much the GMD-1 model and at that time they were ugly to me. I don't know why, I saw a bunch of those units at CANAC in Montréal where CN was retiring their last old unrebuilt GMD-1. Some unusual units numbered 1100 series with A1A trucks and with a small fuel tank. Normaly it's the 1000 series that has the A1A trucks and the 1100 series have the Flexicoil B-B for retired GP9. Some were leased to customers by canac, and some others with the A1A trucks were exported to Cuba and foreign countries and I didn't take many photos of those units
Lets go back to the models:
They were first released in 2003 or 2004, I decided to purchase one kit a B-B 1983 rebuilt version 1100 series. It was a complete kit less trucks. I built it up in the following years and painted CN 1134. I have used all its components included in the kit and added Athearn trucks to it and it ran very well.
Since then I am modeling, and have more interest in grain trains so I decided to do a grain train. Today I have over 150 grain cars from Intermountain in different paint schemes .and I am running them with some CN SD40's, F's unit and GP9's
2 years ago, I was thinking I needed the truly locomotives to pull my grain trains. Some A1A GMD-1, at least 3. After some research on the net, I found 1 kit from someone and another from someone else and like a few people, the kits were sitting in their boxes for 1 year before I decided to built them. Last summer I painted them and badly, the paint didn't stick to the primer and I had to strip it and start over. CN 1014 run off the shop 2 weeks ago for the AMFM open house session where the test run was made and it was sussesful. Too bad its sister 1056 was not ready!
Today, I am still looking for the third unit and it will be painted in Northern Alberta color and patched for CN, maybe 1080.
In the GMD-1 A1A kit, everything was included and surely the special type of trucks. The gear tower was made in photoetching and very well made.
Enjoy ,Éric
YEAP. The unique CN GMD-1 in A1A and B-B trucks from Point-1 Models.
Point-1 was making all GMD-1 versions in resin some 5 or 6 years ago and it is no longer in production today
and they were not cheap but cheaper then a brass ;DWhen I started to do some modeling in early 2000, I didn't like very much the GMD-1 model and at that time they were ugly to me. I don't know why, I saw a bunch of those units at CANAC in Montréal where CN was retiring their last old unrebuilt GMD-1. Some unusual units numbered 1100 series with A1A trucks and with a small fuel tank. Normaly it's the 1000 series that has the A1A trucks and the 1100 series have the Flexicoil B-B for retired GP9. Some were leased to customers by canac, and some others with the A1A trucks were exported to Cuba and foreign countries and I didn't take many photos of those units
Lets go back to the models:
They were first released in 2003 or 2004, I decided to purchase one kit a B-B 1983 rebuilt version 1100 series. It was a complete kit less trucks. I built it up in the following years and painted CN 1134. I have used all its components included in the kit and added Athearn trucks to it and it ran very well.
Since then I am modeling, and have more interest in grain trains so I decided to do a grain train. Today I have over 150 grain cars from Intermountain in different paint schemes .and I am running them with some CN SD40's, F's unit and GP9's
2 years ago, I was thinking I needed the truly locomotives to pull my grain trains. Some A1A GMD-1, at least 3. After some research on the net, I found 1 kit from someone and another from someone else and like a few people, the kits were sitting in their boxes for 1 year before I decided to built them. Last summer I painted them and badly, the paint didn't stick to the primer and I had to strip it and start over. CN 1014 run off the shop 2 weeks ago for the AMFM open house session where the test run was made and it was sussesful. Too bad its sister 1056 was not ready!
Today, I am still looking for the third unit and it will be painted in Northern Alberta color and patched for CN, maybe 1080.
In the GMD-1 A1A kit, everything was included and surely the special type of trucks. The gear tower was made in photoetching and very well made.
Enjoy ,Éric
