The Pokey

Roger,

I notice your orange and white 597 has stripes on both ends. Was the prototype painted that way?

I ask because I need a number for my Hallmark brass n-scale version, and I wasn't aware of any with stripes on both ends like Hallmark painted it.

Paul

 

I know it had them on the short hood. It's the long hood I question.

The only views I have found of long hoods show them without ( like this one, that includes 597 as the 2nd unit):
http://frisco.org/mainline/2015/07/07/gp7s-575-and-597/

If The Hallmark unit I have wasn't facrory painted, I probably would have left off the stripes.

Paul

 

All I see in that image is a uniform dirty white stripe, with no diagonal stripe pattern.

I'm certainly not the only one who can't find evidence that any of the GP7s ever had stripes on the long hood in orange and white. Mike Condrrn's paint shop article on the subject doesn't indicate anything other than short hood stripes in this scheme:

http://condrenrails.com/Frisco/Frisco_PaintShop_GP7s.htm

Paul

 

Does anyone have the nerve to take a micro brush and change the original black and yellow paint scheme (Like on the nice Atlas HO and N GP-7 models) to the later versions with the abbreviated Chevrons by covering some of the yellow areas with black? It seems tempting BUT...???

Tom G.

 

You would not know until you try it!
I would spray the entire unit( after painting) with Krylon Matte Finish #1311, weather it with chalk, reapply the matte finish, if necessary.
Weathering is a good cover up!

Good Luck!

John

 

If you look at the photos in the Frisco Archive of 502 ( http://frisco.org/mainline/tag/502/ ) most (all?) of which are from the 1970s, you can see that the simplified scheme was applied directly over the original paint, because the original stripes are visible.

There's one photo (I think it's in Frisco in Color Vol 2) that shows 502 sometime in the 1970s and it almost looks like it was never repainted.

I bought an air eraser (basically an airbrush sized sand blaster) so that I could remove some of the striping on the nose.

I need to get back to this project, but the plan is to mask off the portions of the stripes I want to keep completely, then use the air eraser to remove portions of the exposed stripes.

I think you can also get the effect seen in the photos by masking the simplified stripe pattern, and then weathering the exposed striping pretty heavily. You will need to replace the two horizontal stripes in the center of the short hood with a diamond.

After you get the old stripes sufficiently covered, John has the right idea, weather the unit to blend everything together.

Paul

P.S. maybe we should move the discussion of GP7 modeling to another thread.

 

I didn't think about weathering--a great idea! It would cover up imperfections of a brush job. I have three Atlas GP-7s I think I'll try it on one at least. I liked the modified paint scheme about as much as the original. A three-uint lash-up usually never completely matched.

Tom G.

PS: If this thread needs to be moved, moderators feel free.