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Post by alligator on Jul 12, 2011 22:36:15 GMT -5
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Post by lucas on Jul 12, 2011 23:10:33 GMT -5
Wooow Chris, this is fine art!! Can´t wait to see it painted and how you attached the cab and hood with screws. Good tip.
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Post by Randy Earle on Jul 12, 2011 23:35:23 GMT -5
Holy smokes! I'm working on an Illinois Terminal SD-39, but it isn't as involved as this one! Nice Job, keep posting pics.  |
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Post by railfanalex on Jul 13, 2011 6:03:17 GMT -5
Whoa! That's some fine work right there!  |
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Post by icghogger on Jul 13, 2011 6:30:29 GMT -5
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kcs1967
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Post by kcs1967 on Jul 13, 2011 10:26:40 GMT -5
Chris, unbelievably beautiful, Fine Art for sure.
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Post by m a y o r 79 on Jul 13, 2011 12:18:17 GMT -5
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Post by alligator on Jul 13, 2011 20:50:54 GMT -5
Everyone, thanks for the compliments. I will post some pictures of the sub assemblies as soon as I get a chance. The model pretty much goes together like an Overland diesel, except that it's plastic.
If anyone is interested, I can do a step by step project on a Southern GP39X that I recently started.
Chris
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Post by carlmarsico on Jul 13, 2011 21:25:50 GMT -5
Nice!
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Post by sgoti on Jul 14, 2011 0:05:57 GMT -5
Everyone, thanks for the compliments. I will post some pictures of the sub assemblies as soon as I get a chance. The model pretty much goes together like an Overland diesel, except that it's plastic. If anyone is interested, I can do a step by step project on a Southern GP39X that I recently started. Chris  Yes, please! |
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Post by deez on Jul 14, 2011 0:34:29 GMT -5
Pretty freakin incredible! Love those 39's. I'm diggin the NW -2 in your sig too Chris. Very nice!
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lucas
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Post by lucas on Jul 14, 2011 7:43:44 GMT -5
"If anyone is interested, I can do a step by step project on a Southern GP39X that I recently started" That would be nice from your part, yes, please!  |
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Post by diesel on Jul 14, 2011 17:06:44 GMT -5
Wow Chris, that's just beautiful! I'm glad you have such nice pictures of this unpainted because I can't wait to see it when it does have paint!  |
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Post by csxt on Jul 15, 2011 15:47:33 GMT -5
Nice! Kai |
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Post by stevef45 on Jul 16, 2011 8:45:35 GMT -5
It looks to good to want to paint it! What brand headlight and lift ring's are those?
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Post by alligator on Jul 16, 2011 9:24:28 GMT -5
It looks to good to want to paint it! What brand headlight and lift ring's are those? The headlight is a PSC part. The lift rings are Detail Associates (West?) part. I did another SD39, an SP version, back in 95. Wow, almost twenty years ago. Not too many parts available back then. It was featured in the Dec. 1999 issue of RMJ. I'll have to dust it off and take some pictures of it and post them here. It's amazing how much more we have in parts today, but it seems that we also have fewer modelers as well. Probably a result of all the RTR stuff these days. I may be wrong but that's what it seems like to me. I'm working on that Southern GP39X (GP49?) right now and will be posting that material soon. Chris Z |
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Post by ranchwagon on Jul 16, 2011 14:06:36 GMT -5
Looking forward to seeing your how-to's!
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Post by stevef45 on Jul 18, 2011 9:19:54 GMT -5
It looks to good to want to paint it! What brand headlight and lift ring's are those? The headlight is a PSC part. The lift rings are Detail Associates (West?) part. I did another SD39, an SP version, back in 95. Wow, almost twenty years ago. Not too many parts available back then. It was featured in the Dec. 1999 issue of RMJ. I'll have to dust it off and take some pictures of it and post them here. It's amazing how much more we have in parts today, but it seems that we also have fewer modelers as well. Probably a result of all the RTR stuff these days. I may be wrong but that's what it seems like to me. I'm working on that Southern GP39X (GP49?) right now and will be posting that material soon. Chris Z Do you have the part number for the headlight housing? Its HO correct? The detail is alot better then the plastic DA ones i've used. |
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Post by alligator on Feb 12, 2014 19:49:31 GMT -5
It's been a long time coming, but I finally got around to painting this thing. Here is an in progress picture. There's still a bit of work to do before it's finished.  Chris |
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Post by lyled1117 on Feb 12, 2014 20:38:48 GMT -5
Chris, another work of art!!
Lyle
p.s. now I don't feel so bad with some of my projects sitting idle almost as long or longer than this appears to have taken. The GP35 you've seen hasn't been as long, but the U23C has been longer LOL
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