I’ve been working on some repaints and touch up for my growing fleet of used locomotives. First shot is an old Aristo F1 unit. It started out as a Southern Pacific, I disassembled it down the the gears and stripped the paint off the shells. Did the same with a B unit (it used to NH paint)
I’m trying to get at least close with this paint scheme on the cab units and the Chessie scheme of mostly orang-ey kinda of yellow on the others. I also like the all blue with yellow letters like this S4 scheme. I have an S4 new in the box but that is a future project.
For the paint, I am a rattle can sort of person so a quick trip to Lowes got me very close I think. Here is a list of what I’m using:
| Strip | 91% ISO alcohol in a very big plastic bin |
| Primer | Rusoleum Universal Grey |
| Yellow Nose Paint | Krylon Gloss Sun Yellow |
| Light Blue | Krylon Matte Vintage Blue |
| Dark Blue | Krylon Satin Oxford Blue |
| Chessie Yellow | Rustoleum Caterpillar Yellow |
| Flat Black | Krylon Flat Black |