warbonnetuk Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Wish it was Big New Santa Fe - then we'd have got Warbonnet as a go to paint scheme rather than rehashed GN.... Dan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted December 16, 2013 Author Share Posted December 16, 2013 BNSF - Bigger Now Still Fouled up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted December 16, 2013 Author Share Posted December 16, 2013 Wish it was Big New Santa Fe - then we'd have got Warbonnet as a go to paint scheme Never understood that decision, they abandoned the single most well known paint scheme in the NA railroad industry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWB Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 I've lived with the Santa Fe ever since the pinstripe blue, through yellow bonnet, Kodachrome, and the resuscitation of the red warbonnet. I don't think the red warbonnet ever looked quite right on freight units, including the original U28CGs. Unless it was kept clean, it looked awful, as it now often does on units where the paint is 15-20 years old. The orange seems to have aged a lot better. BNSF seems to want to keep units in warbonnet as long as they can, but frankly, it's probably time to put em out of their misery. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 BNSF - Bigger Now Still Fouled up. I suspect that's the polite version... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Custom Finishing Models for a model(kit) of various Cat D8 variations http://www.customfinishingmodels.com/ also a company called First Gear Models, side boom not listed here but some other Cat D8 version at around £30+P&P not bad ready made! http://www.modelenium.co.uk/brands/0/851/first-gear?ItemsPerPage=48&SortOrder=0&Ops=1586&sg=0&min=&max= Here is the link direct to the First Gear site http://www.firstgearreplicas.com/ Just read that the First Gear side boom still not released and it's an International Harvest not a Catapillar Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Dear JWB, I've lived with the Santa Fe ever since the pinstripe blue, through yellow bonnet, Kodachrome, and the resuscitation of the red warbonnet. I don't think the red warbonnet ever looked quite right on freight units, including the original U28CGs. Unless it was kept clean, it looked awful, as it now often does on units where the paint is 15-20 years old. The orange seems to have aged a lot better. BNSF seems to want to keep units in warbonnet as long as they can, but frankly, it's probably time to put em out of their misery. Having never felt particularly found of the "trad" gleaming multi-F-unit passenger Warbonnet,the current "hard weatherbeaten, exhaust fired, fade to pinkish, dusty/musty/rusty" warbonnet appearance somehow feels "right" to this NG-logging-backgrounded modern-era weathering fan... ;-)(with the swapped-out orange AC unit on the LH side just to mess things up furthur... ;-) ). Happy Modelling,Aim to Improve,Prof Klyzlr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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