Need tutorial

funnnyfarm

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I have creating a GN Electric route about the 1890’s, from Wenatchee Wa to Everett Wa with HOG. I have found a few Tunnel Motors for Power. But I would like to change their color and logo. Is there a good tutorial or a you tub that can help me do the changes to the Tunnel Motors? Thanks funnnyfarm
 
A loco such as EMD SD40T-2 UP #2944,<kuid:473973:100539> is quite suitable for use with the tutorial mentioned above. The artwork has been labelled to help in identifying what the segments are, which is very helpful. However, if you want to remove the "UNION PACIFIC" there will be some work in repairing the underlying bodywork and in re-smoothing the existing shading. The clone tool is very useful for removing the name - use a size of about 6, put the painting brush immediately above the copying brush, and brush using horizontally strokes, moving up from top to bottom with each stroke. Then come back and repair any detail you painted over. Use a similar technique, but working from left to right, to overwrite the large colured number panels. In this case, because the shading runs top to bottom, working horizontally preserves that shading. Note that antialiasing should be Enabled for this to work smoothly - that seems the wrong way around to me, but it works. Once you have the name and numbering removed, you can look at recolouring the body.

You could look at the other SD40t-2 that are available, but they all seem invovle about the same work to get rid of the existing naming.
 
When the OP says "tunnel motor", he does not mean SD40T-2. He is referring to electric locomotives that would be used by the GN to traverse the length of the Cascade Tunnel. I've left a few links that show what the OP is talking about. I don't know of any tutorials but I'm sure somebody will eventually come here with one.

http://www.precisionscaleco.com/18442%20GN%20W1%20Proto.jpg
http://spellerweb.net/rhindex/USRH/GNREarlyElec.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Great_Northern_electric_locomotive_Y-1_1927.JPG
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/gn5004b.jpg
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/gn5011.jpg
 
When the OP says "tunnel motor", he does not mean SD40T-2. He is referring to electric locomotives that would be used by the GN to traverse the length of the Cascade Tunnel. I've left a few links that show what the OP is talking about. I don't know of any tutorials but I'm sure somebody will eventually come here with one.

http://www.precisionscaleco.com/18442 GN W1 Proto.jpg
http://spellerweb.net/rhindex/USRH/GNREarlyElec.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Great_Northern_electric_locomotive_Y-1_1927.JPG
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/gn5004b.jpg
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/gn5011.jpg
SO...Repainting TUT is Repainting no matter what loco he is talking about.
 
Having lived in Baltimore, Tunnel Motor means this to me:

B-and-O_electric.jpg


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