dcmania-
The Burlington started changing the nose stripes in 1959-60. Not all units
were repainted and the black stripes were common through the sixties. Kato
did not make a red stripe version, but one could mask out the striping,
overspray with silver, and decal the red stripes using MicroScale decals.
Red stripe version was on a quick rerun candidate list but the first run did
not sell out, so red stripes are in the distant future.
Charlie
Kato USA R&D
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dcmania@y... [mailto:dcmania@y...]
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 9:27 AM
> To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BRHSlist] Proto 2000 E-8's
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> I bought two CB&Q E-8 locomotives by mail order shortly after they
> first came out. I ended up with two different numbers, but both have
> black nose stripes. Turns out the era I ended up modeling in should
> have RED nose stripes. I hoped that the Champ decals would fit right
> over the black stripes that Proto has...but of course they don't.
>
> Short of stripping the whole loco(s) and repainting, anyone have any
> suggestions of how to best remove the black stripes with a minimum of
> repainting? Would painting just the nose section with
> that 'stainless steel' paint by Testor's be correct to prototype?
>
> Or does someone have 2 E-8's with RED nose stripes that wishes they
> had gotten Black stripes wanna make a trade?
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