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Post by Randy Earle on Nov 30, 2010 18:01:00 GMT -5
The theme for December is First Diesel Detailing Efforts.
Post pics of some of your earliest work. If you have the pix.
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Post by Randy Earle on Nov 30, 2010 18:04:08 GMT -5
Back in the '80s, I made 2 High Hood what if NKP diesels. They were made with the old AHM C-424s and used Tyco cabs and hoods. Back in the old Athearn REALLY WIDE HOOD days, I made a N&W High Hood SD-45. I used an Athearn GP-35 rear hood filed down and sanded to make the high short hood. Yes, that's an Athearn U-30C painted by me in D&H. And that's one of the really early Blue Box Athearn SD40-2s I painted in N&W. I still have the camera I took the pix with, a PENTAX K1000se 35mm SLR. This ties in with my first efforts as this was the first camera I rebuilt and installed real snake skin on.
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Post by liengineerbob on Nov 30, 2010 18:27:04 GMT -5
Thanks for picking my suggestion, Randy!! I will post a few tomorrow.....I have to dig them out of storage and take a few photos to post.
Even if you dont have photos.......even a description would be great to hear about!
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Post by sd45longhoodfoward on Nov 30, 2010 20:29:06 GMT -5
ow Rand you did excellent work for back in the day we didn't have all the parts and stuff we have today available i can remember most of the parts were for steam locos i remember getting snow plows from Holgate and Reynolds were the hot thing lol making mu hoses etc from wire I did a few hood SD 45's and a few wide hood GP 35's all athearns.i remember when athearn came out with scale hoods!Wow!!!!!!! i even got a letter from uncle Irv himself lol that would make a good trivia question who he is!and the Tyco alco units look Fantastic!!! especially in the NPR scheme
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Post by spud7378 on Nov 30, 2010 20:58:09 GMT -5
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Post by icghogger on Dec 1, 2010 9:55:18 GMT -5
EXCELLENT early efforts, Kevin!!
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Post by icghogger on Dec 1, 2010 9:56:41 GMT -5
Randy, that Pentax looks sssssss-so ssssssss-sweet
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Post by Randy Earle on Dec 1, 2010 13:53:03 GMT -5
Randy, that Pentax looks sssssss-so ssssssss-sweet Thanks, who says I don't have a pit to hiss in?
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Post by Randy Earle on Dec 3, 2010 18:20:30 GMT -5
No more submissions? Boy, that was fast.
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Post by danielsokyrail on Dec 3, 2010 19:16:58 GMT -5
Here is two of my first efforts. The hi-hood sd was was built using the end of the long hood off of a another sd40-2. I removed the fan from the top and sanded the doors off the hood. It is still in the primer and not finished. The sd9m has been on here before. Its an old athern that I put the modern cab on and cut the hood down and santed the ladders off and lights and filled the holes. It to is not completed yet. Both of these have been in boxes under my desk for over 4 years. I actually dragged them out and painted the sd9m but the sd40-2 is still waiting. The sd9m is wearing the most current SOKY paint.
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Post by nssd70m on Dec 6, 2010 23:44:32 GMT -5
Here is my effort from the early 90's. I kitbashed a NS SD40-2 using a long hood end from another SD40-2. The plows are from Details West, the mu hoses and horns from Details Associates. I made homemade firecracker antennas from .015 wire and a small piece of wire insulation painted black.
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Post by Randy Earle on Dec 6, 2010 23:55:18 GMT -5
That's some old school modeling.
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Post by nssd70m on Dec 7, 2010 0:23:36 GMT -5
Here is a B30-7A I kitbashed in the late 80's. I used a wide body Athearn U33-B as the base. I used the rear section from a Athearn U28-B to make the high hood. I also used the four door section from another U33-B to make that familiar dash seven bulge at the radiator section. Snow plows and bell from Details West, horns from Details Associates. Homemade firecracker antennas and mu hoses. To make the mu hoses, I used .015 wire, clamped one end in a C-clamp, flattened and bend it and painted it silver. I forgot who made the FB-2 sideframes, I think it was Smokey Valley or Trackside parts.
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Post by gnsteve on Dec 12, 2010 4:08:10 GMT -5
Here are a couple of my early efforts. The SW7 is better than 25 years old. Back when the only plastic GP35s available were the wide bodied Athearns, I used the front end of a Atlas GP40 and back end of a Atlas SD35 on a repowered Athearn frame for a scale width GP35. Steve
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Post by danielsokyrail on Dec 12, 2010 14:36:05 GMT -5
nice work on both of those. Neat how u made that gp35
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Post by Rudy Garbely on Dec 18, 2010 2:08:46 GMT -5
The AT&SF "Beep" was actually my first real kitbash, way back around 2004 or so (I was only 14). Credit goes to my dad, who did the painting for me since I didn't know how to use an airbrush yet and I was nervous to learn after I'd done such a large amount of work cutting, filing, and gluing to get the thing together in the first place. I did all the "bashing" myself, as well as masking and decaling. I just wouldn't touch a paint jar at that point. Here's the link to the thread on it. dieseldetailer.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=x&thread=2031&page=1
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Post by c415rock on Dec 18, 2010 21:52:47 GMT -5
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Post by drgwguy on Dec 23, 2010 9:54:14 GMT -5
Let me dig-up the one I call "Gramps"....it's an Athearn BB DRWG SD40T-2, road # 5378...of course Rick Okay........ found him....... I did this unit back in '93-'94 in hich school. It was the first detailing/weathering attempt. I don't run it, but I can't bring myself to do anything to it, or get rid of it. It is the one locomotive from HS that I kept after purging myself from the hobby when I thought I was a "grown-up". Anyway, there you have it Rick
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Post by drgwguy on Dec 23, 2010 10:36:21 GMT -5
Gramps
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Post by danielsokyrail on Dec 25, 2010 21:05:26 GMT -5
Heres two more first attempts at heavy weathering with a brush.
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