Gentlemen: I am currently in the process of building a NYC P-2b electric locomotive and have stumbled onto a decaling problem. Perhaps someone can help. I sure hope so.
Here is the situation: The NYC lightning stripe paint scheme on electric locos has five 2" white stripes that curve around the ends and come to a point. The curvature does not appear to be an exact circle and, to complicate things even more, the width of all the stripes appears to narrow down gradually from 2" to 1" while curving around the end. To some extent, the concept of these stripes is similar to the famous gold 5-stripe paint job on GG-1 locos which also has curves around the ends and all stripes coming to a point. More specifically, using plain straight white stripe decal around the ends appears (to me) to be impractical due to the tapering and irregular curvature. How did I ever get into this mess? One solution might be to find some NYC electric decals in some other scale and then enlarge/reduce them to my desired scale (S=1:64). Does anyone happen to know if decals like this are commercially available in either HO or O? Or from a custom decal maker somewhere? I do know that S scale does not have decals like this. Failing that approach, are there some ideas as to how conventional white stripes could be applied to achieve the desired effect? How can I taper them -- scissors, X-acto, or what?? And how can they be applied in a smooth gradual curve of changing radius? Never having done this before, I am stumped. I sure hope someone else out there has perhaps solved a similar problem and can offer some much appreciated advice. Maybe a free beer for the best advice! Thanks very much....Ed Loizeaux The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
