. Hope it lasts. **Wayne, sorry to hear your power went out , but GLAD that old steam powered monitor of yours is working GREAT now!:thumb: . THANK YOU for the VERY KIND words , that means a lot to me . **Kurt, THANK YOU so much for the GREAT complement !. THANKS GUYS!, GLAD you popped in:thumb: -Deano . i do have two others, but those will have VERY little done to them, i don't want all of them to be in such bad shape:thumb:. announce1**OK, enough ramblingtooth1 , THIS engine is an Athearn BB CNW SD40-2:thumb: , heres what i have done; installed an MRC 370AD sound decoder, 11 decals, sunshades, coupler cut bars, hoses, low mount MU socket, MU holder, painted safety white on the railings, and weathered the WHOLE engine:thumbstill have to put in the number boardsops . ** FIRST PIC, out of the box. **second pic, ONE of a FEW prototype pics i used to make this engine up. didn't want to get as extreme as this pic, but is an example of how far i could have went, and still been prototypical. **REST of the pics are the engine finished:thumb: . THANKS! -Deano View attachment 30630 View attachment 30631 View attachment 30632 View attachment 30633 View attachment 30634steamhead said:
Dianneviperman said:
I'm about 4 miles southeast of Argyle, WI. Cheesehead country!! Isn't Crytal lake where the Northwestern, now metra or whatever, used to park their commuter trains?-DianneSteven, Chessie6459, Russ, Herc, Gus and Josh, THANK YOU!!steamhead said:
, for the GREAT complements! **DianneWECOME TO THE GAUGE!!:thumb: i am HONORED that you have popped in on this thread . so you are from Argyle, my dads from Wiota, and my uncle lives between Argyle and Wiota:thumb: . **Gus & Dianne, both of you are correct, the CNW i did IS NOT real prototypical . the engine i used is an Athearn BB, and they ARE real generic. i know it seems like i am a rivet counter at timesops: , but a rivet counter I AM NOT. i am a mediocre modeler at best, and i just find GREAT FUN in detailing up engines to a certain degreetooth1. to me, its ALL just for the fun of it:thumb:. **Gus, i have completely weathered 6(out of 55)engines:thumb: . i think i have posted this pic, but here is one of my more recent ones:thumb: . THANKS FOLKS!!! -Deano View attachment 30662 getting close to the end of my patched units:thumb: . this one is an Athearn SP SD45T-2. I have weathered this one a little "heavy", and will be the LAST all over weathering on my patched units. i posted this engines "out of the box" pic earlier in this thread, so i am not going to double post it here. i am also NOT going to post a proto pic of one of these, as i went off a few pics to do this one, and completely matched NONE of them. i done this one up just for the fun of it:thumb: . announce1 HERES what i did, installed an MRC Brillance sound decoder, AC unit, UP type plow, coupler cut bars, MU socket, MU holder, hoses, 8 decals, some paint work, and weathered the WHOLE engine:thumb: . in some pics the patch looks a little bright, thats just the lighting . DOH!, i still have to put the number boards on itops:tooth1, oh well, here it is . THANKS!, -Deano View attachment 30665 View attachment 30666 View attachment 30667 View attachment 30668 View attachment 30669 :cry: I actually dropped my jaw when I saw what has to be the best weathering jb you've EVER done!!! :thumb: WOWZA!! WOW!!!MilesWestern said:jawdrop It's.... :cry: BEAUTIFUL!!
THANKS!!!!!!Miles!!!! i tell you what REALLY STINKS though, my camera takes pics at 2megs big, i have to reduce them down to under 65kb to get them on here , doing that REALLY REDUCES the picture quality:cry: . but THANKS AGAIN MILES!! **EDIT: THANKS! g_e_c!!, i posted same time as you. -Deano They look like the tunnell motors I occasionally seee around here! 
