Painting Locomotives / Bow Waves and curves

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I’m wondering if anyone has some tried and tested techniques for painting a bow wave on a Locomotive. I’m a Pere Marquette / C&O modeler and want to paint a couple of EMD E7’s in the as delevered Pere Marquette paint scheme. Thanks

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Mel showed how he did an SP stripe of this kind of complexity not long ago.

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I’m not familiar with the Pere Marquette paint scheme. I did a CAD drawing of the SP Daylight deep V on the E7s. I used the CAD drawing as a template for masking. I used a combination of 3M ¼” Automotive masking tape (it is more flexible for curves) and 3M Scotch Blue Painters Tape for Delicate Surfaces #2080. The Automotive and Delicate Surfaces tape doesn’t pull up the base paint.

It went much better than I expected, had to do the first paint job over after a slight learning curve. I painted 4 E7As that turned out pretty good.

Here is a link to the project on my blog:

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/2014/11/november-9-2014-airbrushing-my-cary-e7a.html

Good Luck.

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Hello all,

Other than a lot of masking and painting you might consider sheet decal material A.K.A. Trim Film from Microscale Decals.

Make a template, cut out the curves as needed and apply like any other decal.

Hope this helps.