Slowly moving along with the locomotive. It just gets too hot to work on it during the day out in the garage. Put stripes on the pilot. Boy does that change the looks. They are reflective. My graphics will arrive the beginning of next week. I should be able to wrap things up and call it a completed project by next week end. 
That’s looking great, Warren. When do you expect to be riding the rails? What do you break over the nose of a loco when you christen it?
-Brian
brian donovan said:His Riv'rence, Fr. Fred, is sending a flagon of his best holy water.
What do you break over the nose of a loco when you christen it? -Brian
I’m pushing to have it done by the end of next week. Don’t know if I’ll be able to run it then or not. Definitely have plans for a Labor Day run.
Just a few more progress pics. Roof painted (the bracket is the headlight mount)
Lots of bits and pieces getting painted
Electrical work started (from the front)
From the back (Grey box is the throttle and red buttons are horn and bell)
Wow - that is sure looking good. Sounds like you will make it for Labor Day. If you get it finished early, where do you test it?
Now you need some labels for horn and bell - we can’t have you pressing the wrong one!
Bruce mumbled something about:
“Now you need some labels for horn and bell - we can’t have you pressing the wrong one!”
First I need to hook the thing up and get it working so I know which one is the horn and bell…
I have a friend that’s building a layout and has about 500’ down. We run back and forth on that. So far it’s been just his locomotive. We’re both anxious to get mine down and see how it runs.
Hehe…details, details. Mumble, mumble…
Well, let me know if you need some labels. The Brother’s p-Touch does nice work. I can do black on clear…probably some others if I look at my stash. It can do any Windows font.
You know if you added those tanks on top (like Bob’s model) you could probably store at least a 6-pack. 
Bruce Chandler said:
Hehe...details, details. Mumble, mumble...Well, let me know if you need some labels. The Brother’s p-Touch does nice work. I can do black on clear…probably some others if I look at my stash. It can do any Windows font.
You know if you added those tanks on top (like Bob’s model) you could probably store at least a 6-pack.
Graphics arrived today…from Del Tapparo @ G Scale graphics. It’s gonna look nice. And I don’t need any tanks on the locomotive. The cooler rides with me on the following car…:lol:
Now…for a bottle of Fr. Fred’s Holy Water for the christening.
Ah…Del does very nice work. Should look great. Picture’s soon, I hope?
Del did the graphics for my riding car and I’m tickled pink over that…so he got my business again. Looks like a bang up job again. They look really great. Not to get them on without screwing up the world. I’m having to repaint the roof on my locomotive as I screwed that up. I let it sit to dry a couple days before putting on the acrylic. I didn’t notice the dust accumulation and when I started with the acrylic it turned to mud…
Now it’s sand paper time…:mad:
Boy, if it isn’t one disaster, it’s another! I finally got the roof looking like I wanted it to be (changed paints) and then my camera gives up the ghost… So today was camera shopping day. Bought another cheapie Kodak. Hey, I don’t need an expensive camera to screw up pix…
Any ways I took a few pics to try out the camera and also to play with the new software. The first picture has a special effect…spotlight…that I thought was quite cool. It hides a lot of the crappy inside of my garage. The second pic is just a normal edit job. As you can see there I’ve built a roll around stand for it. That became a necessity as I’m getting ready to test run the thing and the table I’ve been building it on would not hold the locomotive and it’s batteries. I don’t need another disaster with the locomotive crashing to the floor…
