Yellow stripes
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:43 pm
I've started fitting yellow stripes to my UP locos with red stripes. Latest are two SD38-2 locos. The red stripe was too wide so I had to remove it, by scraping and sanding it off. Where it was too light I painted with a grey paint pen which was wiped off quickly filling any scratches.
I used Smokebox Graphics reflective stripes, which are really reflective. I find they don't stick well to gloss surfaces, removing the red stripes solved that. I punch the holes for the handrails with the end of sharp tweezers.
To reduce postage costs I ordered enough stripes for about 12 locos and a few hundred cars, so many more to do!
Here is one done the other still red. I used a flash with the photo which brings out the yellow stripe. Click on the photo to show the full photo.
SD38-2 stripes by Mike Ruby, on Flickr
I used Smokebox Graphics reflective stripes, which are really reflective. I find they don't stick well to gloss surfaces, removing the red stripes solved that. I punch the holes for the handrails with the end of sharp tweezers.
To reduce postage costs I ordered enough stripes for about 12 locos and a few hundred cars, so many more to do!
Here is one done the other still red. I used a flash with the photo which brings out the yellow stripe. Click on the photo to show the full photo.
SD38-2 stripes by Mike Ruby, on Flickr