Folks, Referencing the following photograph. http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?media/5042.2738/ Photograph location and date are unknown. Does anyone know the story behind the "stencil" style coonskin on the nose? It is distinctly out of the ordinary; the usual seems to be black-filled coonskin with white lettering. The "FRISCO" actually looks a bit rough around the edges. Perhaps it was a cost-savings measure before either repainting to Mandarin orange and white, or prior to trade-in, or maybe the paint shop was out of nose heralds at its last repainting? Best Regards,
I do think it is a stenciled or painted on herald. I think the reason that it looks so rough is because the nose is dented right at that spot. I believe there were also other engines that had painted on heralds. There were several Mandarin orange and white units that had similar heralds. I think when FP7A SLSF 5042 was painted they must have run out of those blue metal heralds. Tom G.
Tom, I think all quoted material gets italicized. Not sure why, but my guess is that it is a system default. It does help my eyes more quickly discern what is mine, and what is someone else's, etc. Karl, Thanks for the confirmation. I thought that I might have one of these black stencil decals in a batch of Champ F-unit extras, but I think it is a gold outline instead.
Tom, I corrected your post. When you reply, make certain that your response does not fall between the two hypertext markup codes that have brackets [ ] around them. The opening markup code will have a [ bracket followed by QUOTE and some additional stuff then ]. The closing markup code will have a [ bracket followed by /QUOTE and then ].
I usually just "erase" what ever is in the previous poster's comments. I guess I forgot to do that this time. TG
Whoops, I am afraid I didn't read the post too carefully Tom. I think I just saw the italics and assumed that it was a quote. My apologies and thanks for the additional insight. It will provide some cheap entertainment for me to start going back through photographs of latter-day F-units and see how they compare. Best regards,