Dirty Pickle

[scooter3798]

A couple of shots of a GP38-2 that I did up for my railroad, the Pittsburgh, Chicago and Lake Erie. Unit is a Proto 88" nose GP38-2. I through a couple of extra parts on it, and hooked up the ditch lights. This probably the dirtiest unit on my roster. I faded it down and then added a liberal amount of rust, basing the weathering on a couple of CSX geeps that I had shots of.















Scooter

[ssw9662]

Looks great, that's without a doubt the most realistic weathering job I've seen applied  to a freelance model. The yellow numberboards are a nice touch too.

[scooter3798]

Thanks for the compliments Austin. As for the yellow numberboards, I'm a bit of a Clinchfield fan so that's where the idea came from. The paint scheme itself is a modification of the Erie Lackawanna scheme, changed the colors and dropped out what would be the maroon part of the body stripe. The numbers, not the numbering scheme, but the actual number decals are from a Conrail set as well.

Scooter

[ns_7011]

Man something about that paint scheme really grabs my attention, it's very sharp.