John Le Forestier said:
Not to take away from the second one, but there really is a lot of very nice visible detail on that first one, Bruce, and excellent lettering too. I know which one I’d be stealing ideas off! I think either color on the roof would work equally well.
For what it’s worth, I just visited your site and looked at your green boxcab. As I think about it, I believe that for my taste anyway, a contrasting roof color would have worked a bit better than the green. I’d have gone for black top surfaces and green detailing.
Don’t hate me…
Prior to deciding on paint schemes, Now we have computers I have taken to creating b/w drawings of my stuff and then ‘painting them’ onscreen to get a bunch of ideas to look at. I find this exercise really helps me visualize a bunch of different possibilities.
The only problem then is choosing among a plethora of schemes that all look good to me!
I try to get around this dilemma by sticking close to a family look, which means that a whole lot of my beautiful schemes get scrapped. Yup, that hurts…
And, not to take away from any of your points, there’s not a lot of detail on the prototype, either.
(http://www.jbrr.com/Pics/Locomotives/25TBox/23ton_ge.jpg)
I’m still deciding…
