"The Wizard"

[Chuck Doan]

Paint! That is looking fine Marty. For me the painting/weathering is the scariest thing to start when I am doing "metal" stuff. What did you use as a primer/surface prep on the brass?

The arty shot is excellent too!

[lab-dad]

Thanks Guys!

Volker & Unc, not to worry. The brass will get the proper "patina" to match the rest of the locomotive.
I am starting with an engine in fairly good shape.
It is much easier to weather a model that unweather it!
And remember this is a "progress shot, it aint done.

The painting was done with etching primer and Scalecoat paints.
I'm using engine & loco black and their clears where appropriate.
Also some other blacks here and there.

I hope to get the engine on next............

Marty

[danpickard]

Doh, no one ever takes photo's of Shay's from that side...what happened there??? 

Excellent anniversary progress though Marty!

Cheers,
Dan

[lab-dad]

Thanks Dan
The reason for pictures of "that side" was there was no engine installed!

Here is a short video of the now installed engine in operation.
I hope the link works.

http://s263.photobucket.com/user/lab-dad-jones/media/0A5013C5-98E6-4F28-94CB-06DEDE77A9F2_zps8cp63564.mp4.html

Marty

[Bill Gill]

Nifty! And, now we know the rest of the story. Sounds like the engineering dept wouldn't let the public affairs photographer peek at the right side. But now all (almost?) is revealed.

[TRAINS1941]

An the gears go up & down.  Awesome!!!

Jerry

[marc_reusser]

Happy anniversary!  Kudos on a lovely build so far.

[Hauk]

Congrats, Marty, looks very good!

Don't tell me you're really going to leave the brass parts that shiny ... 

Volker

Patience, my friend!
If it has not been given a coat of clear laquer it will tarnish quit nicely in a couple of years. Especially if there are chemically blackened parts anywhere near it.

[lab-dad]

The builders plates arrived yesterday!
I wasted no time in getting it installed.

Again - MANY THANKS to Volker!

Here they are just out of their little black bags;


raw bronze, raw brass and FUD.

I ended up using the bronze. As far as I am concerned the FUD was useless for this.



Almost done! (for now)
-Marty

[TRAINS1941]

That is so cool.  Nice job Volker.

Well that sure does make a loco look right.

Jerry

[Hydrostat]

Looks great, Marty! You should have told me that it was going to be mounted on a rounded surface ; it is no problem to make a bent CAD model.

What was the reason for using the bronze instead of the brass? The brass looks even a bit more crisp at the picture but this may result from lighting situation.

Volker

[finescalerr]

Most satisfactory. I award Marty and Volker the gold medal for collaborative modeling. -- Russ

[Ray Dunakin]

Stunning! It's like you just shrank the real thing down to size.

[artizen]

It is my dream to one day build a loco which will be called Dazed and Confused. Dazed on one side, Confused on the other! (Long live Zoso!!!!!) Now I know where to go to get the plates made.

[Chuck Doan]

Those look great! Refresh me on the process? Are the metal ones lost wax cast from printed wax?

I have a part I need in metal soon, and I was planning on using the Shapeways brass process. This looks very promising.