Or a Hart gondola! Cheers, Andy.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:18 PM, cnr3304 <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > > > --- 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 > > > -- Daniel McConnachie
