The drawing is great to have, but pull out your scale ruler before you go too far - It's printed too small! You can copy it and enlarge it, or use a ...
S&D MODELS (Phoenix Miniatures line) makes an extensive array of circa 1880 - 1920 'O' scale figures. SCALE LINK , that also produces an enormous array of...
Dear List, One of my projects is to fabricate a couple of iron doors for the two O scale coke ovens I have.Can anybody give me a rough idea of what they might...
... Royce, If I recall it is the ?Amazon? (a Mason 4-4-0) whose extant etching shows it painted blue and thus blue is one of the possible Bogie colors. George ...
In the back dust jacket of Art Wallace book it describes the front painting as DSP&P number 4 fresh from factory, unless my eyes are playing tricks. Thanks...
There are two versions of the 1856 Amazon lithograph, one which shows it in blue with red wheels and trim, and one which shows it in green with red wheels and...
Chocolate brown per the Gunnison engineer's later recollection, is a safe and historically accurate bet. I would avoid red, as there is no docuentation for it...
I just uploaded some drawings of bogie color schemes in the "Files" section under "Bogie and NG color schemes." There is a Gunnison in chocolate and a green...
I added some more drawings, the Duck River Valley engine, a couple of Porters and some Brooks machines. The Porter represents the standard paint style of the...
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Great Jim, Any chance of you doing the 2-8-0's and 4-6-0's on the F&CC? have two brass locos waiting for paint. eric [Non-text portions of this message have...
Eric, The consolidations should be simple as they were Baldwins, the Schenectady ten wheelers a little more tricky. From the photo I was immediately able to...
On 8/12/04 3:46 PM, "woodburner" <woodburner@...> wrote: Jim, Thanks much for these! George ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Woodburner, What do you have on early Porter colors? I am looking at photos of the Santa Cruz and Felton 0-6-0's, named "Santa Cruz", built No 1, Porter Bell...
Guy's, Thanks to a mutual friend I had the pleasure of meeting and having dinner with Jim. He is a mountain of information on these early paint schemes and has...
Group, I had a 2 week break between semesters and decided to work on my Kemtron Consolidation. Jims' article in the Prospector got the juices flowing again! I...
Gordon, that is called "pea green with envy"! man that looks good.! Royce by the way where did the decals come from? I have some old Sloan decals that are...
Beautiful work Gordon and an excellant paint job.I've built avout a dozen of the Kemtron kits in hon3 and it's amazing how much extra detail can go in O ...
Gordon, great job on Music Pass, she's beautiful. These are really handsome little mountain goats, aren't they? The unshaken Floquil graphite for the...
On 8/13/04 12:13 PM, "vetapass" <Vetapass@...> wrote: Gordon, Looks very nice. The higher angle shots that show the running boards got me wondering. On...
Juan Carlos, thanks for the good words, from a guy with your skill and passion that's really great and I'm glad your 4-4-0 is back on schedule, that's cool. I...
Randy, I know the engines, and your curiosity got me looking at them again, so I've started a drawing of Santa Cruz. I want to spend some more time on her...
I'll look around, like the Brooks ten wheelers? Jim ... From: Darrell Smith To: TOCng@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:49 PM Subject: [TOCng]...
No known official Baldwin standard for running boards, George, and I've looked a lot at the trade press in general for clues. All we really know is that the...
I had to, they were plastic! Natural unpainted plastic, freshly cut from the plastic forests of Celluloidia. ;) obviously you painted the tops of the running...
... ================== Hi folks... Being new to this group I'm a bit reluctant to start off with a controvertial topic reply... But the discussion regarding...
