Ralph,
John Lee has announced that Badger will soon be releasing their "Custom
Line" of model railroad paint colors. One of the six colors for 2002 is an
accurate CB&Q Blackbird Grey. The Custom Line paints will be sold in 4 oz,
pourable, re-sealable bottles for $18.25. These paint colors will only be
available for one year. There was a flyer in the last BRHS mailing with
more information on how to get this paint at a discount.
Fortunately, the roofs of the GPs and SDs are easy to mask of and repaint.
One bottle will allow you to repaint your entire fleet with a consistent
color. Before you do, replace the horns and correct the headlight. There
are several castings available for the headlight. I took a brand new XActo
chisel blade to carefully shave off the cast-on headlight, moved it to the
lower position and put the new casting where the original one was.
Dave Lotz
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Brown [mailto:cbq682@g...]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:55 AM
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] proto 2000 GP7s
Life-Like has produced both Phase I and Phase II GP7 in CB&Q black & gray
scheme. Unit numbers #200, #201, & #209 are Phase I GP7s. Unit
numbers #254, #262, & #267 are Phase II GP7s.
I myself do not own any Phase I locomotives. I do own four of the Phase II
locomotives. From what I can tell, the Phase II locomotives do not
have the same color gray paint as the locomotives I see in photographs. The
gray also does not match that of gray on the Chinese red and gray
schemes. The gray on the models is too dark, almost not gray. Since I was
not born until well after 1970, I can only rely on the color
photographs of Spoor and others. I also can say that the horns that
Life-Like installs on the models is a generic three bell cluster
positioned on the top of the short hood forward. All of GP7s I have viewed
have two single bell horns positioned one on the side of long hood,
near the roof, on the fireman's side, and one on the side of the short hood,
near the roof, on the engineer's side. The head light assembly is
a two lens unit. On the Q GP7s, they had a four lens configuration on each
end. These are the things that I have noticed, if there are
others, please point them out.
But, none-the-less, I like them very much. In my opinion, I think that the
Proto 2000 CB&Q locomotives are the nicest, best detailed plastic
locomotives that are on the market today. They are affordable and easily
available.
Ralph W. Brown, Jr.
Galesburg, IL
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