CB&Q Puppies, er, Lokeys

Finally!! Fresh outa the paint shoppe:
1 ea. CB&Q SD24. I bought this Atlas puppy with the idea of adding it to my Wishram SD24, yellow box models, and it was yellow. Well, then someone gave me a beautiful P2K SD9 and I figured I hadda have something to go with it, so the Wishram paint evolved into the “Q” rolleyes.gif. The paint is the new Trucolor CB&Q Chinese Red and the light Undercoat Grey. Since Atlas did a nice job of adding details, all I hadda do was assemble it. Only one issue, the Q never had drop steps on these models, but I didn’t wanna mess up the deck by filling that slot. dry.gifDecals are a combo from Champ and MS.

Here is the SD9 I was given and I corrected a couple of simpler items by installing the correct horns, a winterization hatch, gyralight, steam generator and spark arrestors. Again I chose to not remove the drop steps. The Trucolor grey came very close to the factory paint for the added items. Both units have an overcoat of 50% Dullcoat and Glosscoat. smile.gif

Nice Models! On the ‘Q’ the diesels were ‘motors’ & the cabooses were ‘waycars’. It was easy to pick out the ‘foamers’ when talking to railfans!

Nice work, Don. Very clean, sharp lines.

Don …

Very nice ! … I definately like “The Q” and its Chinese red paint scheme. Burlington’s silver “waycars” were among the best looking cabooses anywhere.