Whitch looks best?

[yoshicool]

I was just wondering whitch one of these paint jobs suits General the best what do you think?

Civil war:http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/D6700/?action=view&current=W1.jpg


Museum:http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/D6700/?action=view&current=W2.jpg

 

[Tokkyu40]

Personally, I like the museum paint best, but I'm going to hear a lot of argument from people who like the war version, and a lot who would like to have both.
Good pics. :Y:

Claude

 

[tbryson2]

Just a point of interest, I created both of these engines and had a lot of work to do to get it "right". Before I started the project, I personally didn't care about the musuem colors. I didn't think they looked like a "used" or real engine would. But during and after fininshing the project, I realize that it looks great in operation!

The Civil war version I took some artistic libertys with. There are some historical "guestimations" about the paint scheme, nothing was ever documented and of course, no color photos. Just painitings done in the 1960's(?) from historians. With that said, I did the best I could to make it historically accurate. There is some controversy about the boiler color, but this is the best in my opinion.

Thanks for your interest!
Terry

 

[bigfitzy]

both look great but for personal preference i prefer the black boiler paint job. looks good.

 

[yoshicool]

Just a point of interest, I created both of these engines and had a lot of work to do to get it "right". Before I started the project, I personally didn't care about the musuem colors. I didn't think they looked like a "used" or real engine would. But during and after fininshing the project, I realize that it looks great in operation!

The Civil war version I took some artistic libertys with. There are some historical "guestimations" about the paint scheme, nothing was ever documented and of course, no color photos. Just painitings done in the 1960's(?) from historians. With that said, I did the best I could to make it historically accurate. There is some controversy about the boiler color, but this is the best in my opinion.

Thanks for your interest!
Terry

Cool but the civil war loco has no break levears in the cab

 

[tbryson2]

Cool but the civil war loco has no break levears in the cab

Thats because the Civil War General is historically accurate! Air brakes were not invented yet, and as quoted from "The General and the Texas" by Stan Cohen and James G. Bogle: "There was no brake on the engine, and the hand brake on the tender was probably used when the engine was idle during terminal layovers. The way to stop the engine was for the engineer to pull back on the Johnson reverse bar and put the engine in reverse. Such a feature is unheard of today ahd has been for years..."

Sadly, "Trainz" simulator has no way to eliminate the brakes, so you have to use the keypad to get her going. For realism, don't use the brakes again during your run! It's a challenge!!!!

Terry