Yesterday I discovered the locomotive paintshop on www.railfan.net. You look at a “blueprint” of the locomotive you want to download (they have everything from F-Ms to CN steamers) put it (For Microsoft users) on my pictures, and then put it on paint. From there on you can “paint” designs to use on a freelanced road, prototype paint jobs you want to model, and so on.
ONLY ONE QUESTION: HOW DO YOU PUT LETTERING ON THE LOCOMOTIVES AFTER YOU HAVE ‘PAINTED’ THEM ON MICROSOFT PAINT?
Go to http://paintshop.railfan.net They’re not really blueprints, but illustrations of locomotives and rollingstock. To download a illustration, right click it and then hit “My Pictures” if you have microsoft.
I find those drawings very useful.
I used Adobe Photoshop Elements, and using layers (one for the base locomotive drawing, one for coloring, one for striping, and one for text/lettering) tried out various custom paint schemes till I found what I liked (for coloring you need to make a mask of the area to fill - also make it transparent so the locomotive shape and details show through).
Very helpful
They had a compitition on a good merger scheme for the cancelled BNSF-CP meger-Ugh! 6 good roads falling under a Canadian flag? Terrible! I didn’t like any of the mergers of the 90’s, or any mergers period. Even though at my age it would be impossible for me to have ever seen a Rock Island or even a Southern Railway train, I like the old-time variation on the railroads.
