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I had the idea several years ago to improve the EFF trains. The grab rails are terrible and there are a few mistakes on the bodies.

 

I was firstly going to respray a 1962 stock pilot set with a green driving motor. 
 

Next I wanted to respray a six car 1938 stock set. I had to do this for the reasons above but also to include a 58 trailer and also a 1949 stock UNDM which I was going to use a 1959 stock NDM (with scratch built bogies). Obviously to get the red to match only a respray would work.

 

It seems that others got wind of this and I have ended up doing lots of models for other people. 
 

Included here are some of the respray I have done...

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One project I wanted to do was to lower the underframe equipment to make it more realistic.

 

It’s simple enough to just pack out the chassis and cut away the edging of the one piece. Thankfully the edging looks like the top of the PCM box and grid resistances when cut back looks ok.

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Fantastic jobs there, LoN,

I keep looking at my EFE models and thinking I must do something about those handrails, at the very least, the ones on the driving ends that are most visible. I am fortunate in that I do have a perfect match for their red on the 1938 stock, having already painted the cream window pillars out on the earliest set they released.

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20 hours ago, SRman said:

 I am fortunate in that I do have a perfect match for their red on the 1938 stock, having already painted the cream window pillars out on the earliest set they released.

 

Can you tell us what it is pls?

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5 hours ago, Metr0Land said:

 

Can you tell us what it is pls?

 

It started as a tin from Cherry paints but when that ran out, I had a local paint shop mix up some to match a patch done with the last gasp of the Cherry Paint. The shop shade was very slightly different, but matched the EFE perfectly, so I am happy with that. I only had to buy a litre of the enamel paint, which only cost me a little more than buying the modelling paints in their tiny little tins anyway.

As I am in Melbourne, it would be up to you to find a local shop that could do this for you.

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Note I also repainted the roofs from a red oxide/bauxite colour when new, to a slaty grey (Humbrol #66, actually called olive drab). I repainted only the window pillars in red on this set. Those horrible end handrails really stick out like sore thumbs in the photo.

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