4 pictures of my newly detailed Athearn RTR F7A![:D][:D][:D]
(The pilots are all fuzzy for some reason)
Details added: grab irons, windshield wipers, MU hoses, coupler lift bar, other pilot details, flexible speed recorder cable, red wind deflectors.
Extra painting: black fan vents, silver marker lights, silver porthole frames.
So how’s it look?[:D][:D][:D]
Looks really good man. Nice job.
Good Gawd Darth…[tup][tup]
Now you need to slightly weather that bad boy and she’ll be ready to fool anyone who looks at her pictures![:D]
Nice job, Darth.
The class lights are painted? Nice job. I thought maybe they were pin heads when I first saw them. Very prominent.
Weather?! I think it’d be a shame to weather a beautiful engine like that…
Thanks guys! Good to know that you all think I’m doing a good job![:D]
Fuzzy is good…like an old warm blanket. And the F7? Spiffy. Betty Grable in stainless steel…
Nice job! Makes me want to go out and get some more wire and get mine finished!
Looks great!
Does your camera have a macro (close up) setting. I used to have that problem on photos also. Egmurphy taught me that one.
Dan
I purchased both the passenger and freight versions without checking out how difficult it would be to convert them to DCC.Is it hard??
Very nice work. I, too superdetail covered wagons. But have no pics as yet.
Good job. I can’t wait to get home so I can start detailing some of my rolling stock. I have never done it before and your pics are differently inspirational.
Lovely. Definately inspirational.
Your detailing looks really good, but Athearn shells have one problem- the windows are too large and square. Heres what they should look like - (I’ll edit in a pic of my FP7 when i get the chance) The shell is Athearns fault. You really did an excellent detail job.
Did you use Photo-Shop or something to get that table in there with a photo of a real F7? [:D]
Looks to me like either you or the camera’s auto-exposure program set the aperature wide open, as there is a noticable depth of field visible in the last image. The middle of the locomotive is clearest, with the front and back tapering off in sharpness.
I suspect this was coupled with a shutter speed at the edges of the handheld range, as overall motion blur is visible.
More light would allow the program more room to make decisions, but the failsafe method would be to shoot in manual mode, aperature stopped as far down as its design allows, and whatever shutter speed was necessary to properly expose the image. A tripod would alomost certainly be needed, but a beanbag (even a beanbag ashtray works), minipod, or even a stack of books, coupled with use of the camera’s self timer mode would allow you to sharpen the images considerably.
Wal-Mart sells a nice tripod for portable use, less than two pounds, reasonably sturdy, and a hook as the base of the center shaft allows you to hang a potato sack full of rocks for staility in high wind conditions. No brand is visible, in the camera section, “MX” somethin or other, $18.
The F7 looks awesome, especially the MU array. I need to get some of those for mine. Nice work!
Darth:
Why does your ‘A’ unit still have steam vents?
I am sure there are a few folks out there that aren’t aware that Santa Fe’ s F7As didn’t have steam generators (only the Bs). The easiest thing to say is that it is a great looking model. Good job!! The “windshield cleaner” grabs look nice and straight on the nose!![:)]