08-27-2012, 05:08 PM
jglfan Wrote:Very nice. Looks like you just had to mask off the orange you wanted to keep and paint the black, is that right? And remove some lettering. They look great! Funny too, I also was struck by how similar the schemes were, was Great Northern a partial owner of the Bessimer?
Right! I only needed to mask off the orange stripes I wanted to show and then painted the rest black. Removing lettering was achieved by light scraping of a mini screwdriver blade and a pencil eraser. I've been looking up photos of Great Northern locos and a lot of them seem to have a green tint to their black sections and a gold stripe trim. I don't know if the shell I purchased was painted by some one other than a manufacturer but it sure worked for me. I should have noted in my first post that it really was the ease with which I could make the locos match that motivated the new KP&W scehme. Laziness wins out again!
