Guys,
I know its been a good long while since I have posted any projects (work,house remodel,going back to college after 20 years,health, etc)
Anyways…
I was looking for something to do to keep me occupied during my down time when I have it, So I went looking for what I had on hand for goodies, I found a rebuildable Aristo pacific that I had ordered the missing parts for a little over a year ago, so there was my starting point. After fixing all the issues and missing or broken bits, re-wiring it and changing the style of headlight, it went out to the spray booth for a quick shot of flat black. I also made the rear cab weather curtains out of some tan cloth scraps the wife had in her sewing stuff.
I also had a tender from an ill-fated Accucraft K4 lying in the parts bins and a set of Aristo tender trucks and some various other Aristo tender parts and a few floor pieces from some Aristo 40 foot boxcars lying about to get the tender repaired and back up and running, plus a quick shot of flat black for it. Now we all know I’m a N&W man, but I also have a soft spot for the Virginian as well, I went looking thru my VGN reference books and found some good pics of the PA’s after spending some design time and about 20 bucks at the local sign shop I have the Tender and Locomotive decals and I even had a little Piko caboose that got a shot of red and some decals too, and the end result of a few days worth of work is…
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I hope the snow will melt off soon so I can take it outside and get some shots on the trestle… like this.
Thanks for looking. and excuse the background thats the only place i could take pics where everything would fit, gotta love house renovations…