I almost sold my Rivarossi Berk American Railroads because I was never happy with all those blue rectangles on a steam loco, they just didn’t look right. But I got the loco for $50 at Trainland and it was the only Berk I could afford, so…### I put on a Kadee, loaded the boiler with weight, converted the headlight to a yellow LED and shimmed up the drivers with fiber washers. The loco ran a lot better (it had a duck waddle before I shimmed it), but all that blue…### Finally I decided to paint over all the blue, the yellow square on the cylinders and the yellow lettering on the domes. I use acrylics. I know craft store acrylics on engines look kind of hokey but I can’t use the spray stuff. I tried flat black but it didn’t match, so I washed it off and boxed up the loco to sell.### After a few weeks I decided to try again. I mixed a combination of colors and came up with a match. Then I rubbed on Woodland Scenic transfers. The result is not protypical, but some alternate universe Santa Fe loco. I think it came out pretty decent. (pardon my cheap camera)
