--- In [email protected], David Engle <rirocket@...> wrote:
>
> What do you do for WHITE??
>
> Dave Engle
>
Hi Dave,
I can't do white. Luckily the lettering is red, blue and black on a white car
side. They're for a Redpath Sugar/Dominion Crystal Airslide. Gaudy as all
get out. One of the few Canadian cars that has an interesting colour scheme.
At least to me anyway.
Al Ferguson of Black Cat decals does any white for me. He has an ALPS printer.
The only reason I did these was because I have Al doing other things for me and
I wanted to see if I could. They aren't great but they're good enough for me.
These decals probably would never have any commercial interest since they are
for a car that is rare in S scale and there was only one prototype, GACX 42362.
Oddly enough, Atlas did one in O scale. It sold out immediately and now
commands high prices. Kind of like those SHS Tivoli Beer reefers that go off
on EBay for over $200. I don't even know if that beer is any good!
If MTH, Lionel etc did an Airslide in S Scale, they might be wise to do the
Redpath colour scheme.
Wait a minute, I forgot Murphy's 13th Law of model railroading. When you
devote a lot of effort to a pet project (like finally getting an S scale
Airslide) and finally finish it in a unique scheme, within a year, a commercial
RTR version of it will come out making what you did redundant and no longer
unique. And most importantly, make you wish you had used that precious time
and money that you devoted to said project on something else more unappealing
to the masses, like a steel Russel type winged snowplow.
cheers,
Andy Malette
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