New Frisco paint scheme idea

Hi all, last weekend at the Joplin train show I decided to pick up an SD45T-2 for cheap to have some fun with. I know Tom Holley did a tunnel motor a little while back in B&Y paint, but I had an idea for mine. Instead of sticking to O/W make something new. I've had this idea for a little while now and I finally actually completed a full painting of it in MS paint. It's a little blurred because the program does that when you save the picture, I never have figured out why. Let me know what you think. I went for a combination of the B&Y, O&W and something new. It uses black for the main body with Chevy engine block red (the stuff I used in the program is too dark, but you get the idea) at the ends.



PS The very back is suppose to be red, but since it's flat you can't tell.

Ethan

 

Doesn't work for me, sorry.

GS

 

Ethan:

Try painting the entire cab red. It will probably give the loco more balance.

 

I like the paint scheme, but I agree with Bob that painting the entire cab red would look better.

 

I'll make some revisions tomorrow. The program was giving me some trouble. There is not suppose to be a big red square with the coonskin

 

I sort of like it .. With the revisions that others have mentioned.
Should be interesting.

 

Doesn't work for me either. I suggest you make a thorough study of prototypical locomotive paint schemes, and especially how they evolved through the years. A paint scheme that looks right on a tunnel motor would be quite different than that applied to an early F unit; the best example I can come up with is the Santa Fe from the all dark blue with nose cigar stripe livery on their F units, through the early warbonnet livery, the Yellow on dark blue billboard livery, the Blue and Yellow warbonnet livery and finally the superfleet warbonnet livery. Each of these schemes "works" on a certain vintage of locomotive and looks strange on models of a different vintage.

 

I see your point. I was attempting to come up with something different if I could.

Ethan

 

Just had a thought .. It's pretty hard to improve on perfection.
Actually - Your design has a SP flavor to it.

 

I could see a white diesel body. Orange nose with the orange flaring back in strips to just behind the cab. White midsection with orange roof, and running boards, handrail stanchions. White handrail. For the rear, angled from the bottom towards the rear top, orange, with an orange end. End is then chevron white safety stripped.

There I go again...venturing off where I don't belong. Back to steam...

 

Railroad BLASPHEMY!

 

Ok, I have made some revisions to it and I think it looks a lot better. The font isn't right. I have the Eurida font on my computer but paint didn't recognize it so I used something else. It didn't effect the numbers as much as it did the letters. And just in case you can't tell I'm going for silver trucks with this. there is a lot of little squares on them and would take for ever to paint on the computer.



Ethan

 

Like I said just kicking around the idea. At this point probably not going to happen.

Ethan

 

Nope: Try using red,yellow, and black along the lines of KCS design.

 

Green and White with the big coonskin on the side, with FRISCO stenciled over BN. Hehehehehe....