Repainting a BLI SW7

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I made a start on a new project tonight- repainting a BLI Northern Pacific SW7. This is one of a pair of ‘No Sound’ NP models, but I have made it into a sound unit by swapping the motor, trucks and electrics with one of my 2 IHB sound units.

Unfortunately the cab windows were wrong for the example I am doing, so I swapped it for a spare cab with the correct profile.

Next I removed the lettering and stripes with a fibreglass pen and painted it all black.

Here is the repainted shell on the chassis.

I will not tell you what the new Railroad is yet, but the stripe will not be yellow, although the handrails will be orange.

Jon

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Okay guys,

here’s what it ended up as-

There’s some short video clips here,

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php?cat=843

and a longer clip here, for those with broadband

http://www.railimages.com/gallery/album508/aaj

Apologies for the mix-up at the end

Jon

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John,

Looks really good. How’d you do those whte stripes? Paint or decals?

Loves the videos by the way, You got a great layout… Looks really, really good.

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Thanks John,

The white stripes come with the C&EI Microscale decal sheet, which contains all the necessary decals to do the job.

http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=87-1231&Category_Code=CEI&Product_Count=8

Jon

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Hi There;

Excellent video & sound. I really liked the teaser of the boxcar coming into view before the loco --very effective.

Tom