Check this one out.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19129&item=5964159746&rd=1
The magic of photography. If you look at the ebay pictures of the engine compared to the cover picture, it is hard to believe they are the same, but I am sure that is the magic.
If I read it correctly only 1 side of the engine was weathered. And it surely doesn’t look anything like the photo.
Ooooooo! I wouldn’t mind one of those! But…well…I fell like I’d be commiting a sin if I got an Alley before a Big Boy…
4884bigboy,
You mean to tell me that you DON’T own a BIG BOY???
Kinda ironic, huh?[:D][:I] Yeah, the way I see it, the older Big Boys are crap, the newer Rivarossi’s are just to hard to find, and the Trix must’ve been priced by satan himself ($600.00???). So, I figure I’ll just wait for Rivarossi’s next run.
Why does it look so fantastic on the cover, but the acutal H-8 is bland? Digital enhancement magic?
I think it’s a jip, why would someone just give this to this guy, and then as stated above it looks NOTHING like the photo.
My 2 cents
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looks good to me, I own the RR 2-6-6-6 so I sure dont need to buy this.
The buyer should be happy for its history anyways.
Hollywood…
They will make it look as good as it can be
At the end of the day, how does being on the Walther’s cover add utility or value? It isn’t like it was a special version.
The model shown on Ebay barely resembles the one on the Walther cover. Might be a hoax…
Lighting is 90% of photography. He is obviously not a photographer.
I guess some people would like to have something like that. A few years ago I placed on eBay an Athearn SD40-2 dummy engine that I had decorated in their “dual flag” scheme when it first came out. It was on the cover of the May 1994 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman as part of my Protofile article on the scheme.
It sold on eBay for US$84.00, for a decorated dummy engine, which I thought was pretty good and more than I expected. So the owner has the actual engine that was on the cover, seems to have been happy with his eBay win.
Bob Boudreau
I found out that is is in fact the one from the cover. He has a signed document to prove it (big deal [;)]). He also told me that the engine was set up and weathered on both sides VERY LIGHTLY. The bulk of the weathering was done on the right side while it was sitting on the diorama waiting to be photographed. It came off almost immediately. There was also some computer digitizing done on the engine picture to make it look so real.
I asked him and he responded.
“what was your involvement in aquiring this loco, curious, tho I wont bid to buy it, curiousity about it is elsewhere. I own the RR 2-6-6-6 and building and Arbour and Winton kits…rare themselves…”
The locomotive was sent to me as a photo Job. I do ad Photos, articles,covers etc… for a living in the model railroad industry. After the Allegheny shoot was complete. I asked the owner of Rivarossi if I could keep the locomotive in exchange for a large framed print of the subject,boxed and shipped to Italy so that he could hang it in his office. That was the deal then and as a general rule I keep all of the models that I photograph as part of the transaction. The fact is after I weather them and they appear in the model press, these specific models take on and hold a value un to them selves. The numbers bare that out every time.