I have had this Akane for a few days and I just cant stand all that paint
wow you will be blown away with all the detail I found
this tender has a high speed water pickup sweet…
here are my signiture photos
first I tryed isopropyl at 91%
with no luck
after 4 hours next came the brake fluid
slow but I kept at it
you see the paint I broke its back
stop me if i’m boring you
getting better
the final result
Ken
GO RED SOX
That came out much better than I would hope.
Gotta love nice clean brass! What kind of track is it sitting on in the last pic? I’ve never seen HO track like that before.
hey lothar
good eye I almost threw that track out
I receved it from ebay from the midwest,but the funny thing is it was from bradles
it was a department store from Sommerville, MA. can you beleve it
the store was here for my whole life but has gone out of bussines
A frend of mine picked up the track from the floor, and I told him it was no good.
he sead NO… this will work
its called lemax. see it here http://www.barcourt.com/hints.htm
K
That’s funny! I thought it looked like it belonged around a Christmas tree![(-D] Looks like code 125!
For brass, I would use Acetone. It will remove all the paint in a matter of minutes.
David B
the acetone is my last resort
dot3 is a lot cheaper
oh boy looks like im at it again
look at all that paint
bring on the details
K
A few parts are loose
K
shameless bump [:-^]
those are some great pics!
and a great looking loco too! It’s always fun seeing you take a pretty ratty looking loco and after a few days having it all cleaned up and looking good.
If I may inquire, do you repaint the locos or will you just leave them as-is after you clean them up?
That’s a sweet looking Mike, Ken! Has a definite B&O look to it. With the water pickup in the tender, It almost certainly is (though not being a B&O nut, I’m partly guessing). And no power reverse! A real Johnson Bar! Makes your engineer really work for a living. [:D] Nice job of paint stripping, too. Is that smokebox painted, or chemically blackened?
That’s also an ingenious soaking tank (which you couldn’t use for acetone in any case). One question: how do you keep it from rolling?
thanks NeO6874 I like to get them buffed out and I keep them vergin
I like the golden look
gmcrail this is a B&O QB-4 I was surprised that the smokebox stayed that color graphite silver, but it needs a new coat
how do you keep it from rolling? ah I guess that was a bit of a problem I had to hang on and you see I moved to a paper plate
K
Loathar’s comment about that “code 125” track belonging around a Christmas tree was closer than I think he even expected.
My Mum has a whole bunch of those lighted, close to HO scale ceramic village buildings, and every year at Christmas, she sets up this massive display (close to 40 buildings, ponds, skaters, skiers, campfires, you name it). For years she’s wanted a train to go round and round the village, and last year, I bought her one. The track that was included was exactly that type of track.
I discovered that the distance between the rails was exactly the same as HO, although the rails themselves are about a scale foot wide. Not only that, but the train from her set will run on an HO layout if you keep the speed down.
Mike
it’s a cute set
http://www.lemaxcollection.com/product.jsp?choice=1&catId=21