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General Discussion => N and Z Scales => Topic started by: kiwi_al on January 22, 2010, 04:02:03 PM

Title: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: kiwi_al on January 22, 2010, 04:02:03 PM: Hah!

But this one has Mark4Design longhoods ;D

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/Su5GD4a_31I/AAAAAAAAA_M/POWODtnZsWs/s800/dscf2168a.jpg)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/Su5GD6uYcHI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/_5JliPhG_1Y/s800/dscf2170a.jpg)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/Su5GEFl_mSI/AAAAAAAAA_U/sVlG838xSCA/s800/dscf2173a.jpg)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/Su5GEfG6e2I/AAAAAAAAA_Y/zXw8HAMr2Sw/s800/dscf2176a.jpg)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/Su5GF6XduMI/AAAAAAAAA_c/2jfs1ur5GfA/s800/dscf2183a.jpg)
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: kiwi_al on January 22, 2010, 04:04:22 PM: (http://lh6.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/Su5GMoYJxaI/AAAAAAAAA_g/auQS7i4MhFs/s800/dscf2195a.jpg)

White Face

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/S1l5rZYrSgI/AAAAAAAABI4/6JdV2GdgXjk/s800/dscf2484a.jpg)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/S1l5rgRNlsI/AAAAAAAABI8/vZMp4tMKIdQ/s800/dscf2482a.jpg)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/S1l5rrpUWZI/AAAAAAAABJA/k2KjJu87Ilc/s800/dscf2481a.jpg)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/S1l5r1b8HGI/AAAAAAAABJE/OGN_koteSsw/s800/dscf2477a.jpg)

errr umm just noticed the firecraker antenna is crook, I'll have to straighten the sucker!!
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: amato1969 on January 22, 2010, 04:06:56 PM: Looks great! Nice and shiny right out of the paint shop.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: Ed Kapuscinski on January 22, 2010, 04:24:03 PM: Saw that over on Atlas, hoped you'd post it here for me to lavish on some more praise.

Looks really nice. Everyone knows that 15-1s belong in Blue, but it still looks good :-)
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: Robbman on January 22, 2010, 05:07:40 PM: More proof Intermountain should have me do there EMDs...
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: kiwi_al on January 23, 2010, 05:42:01 PM: Wait for the next one, I've modified the nose :D

I then need to weather them :o
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: ljudice on January 23, 2010, 05:57:37 PM: I wish Mark4Design would do the CSXT GP30 and GP35 Slug hoods...

And don't tell me it's easy to file down an Atlas hood, it's not! :)
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: SirTainly on January 23, 2010, 06:36:00 PM: Those look really good, nice work.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: asciibaron on January 23, 2010, 08:27:23 PM: the long hood looks wide - it that an illusion because i'm used to seeing it in blue?
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: Catt on January 23, 2010, 08:28:10 PM: Quote
I wish Mark4Design would do the CSXT GP30 and GP35 Slug hoods...

And don't tell me it's easy to file down an Atlas hood, it's not!

Lou, have you asked?
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: kiwi_al on January 23, 2010, 09:11:02 PM: Quote
the long hood looks wide - it that an illusion because i'm used to seeing it in blue?

Well Robbman designed it and usually both he and Mark only produce something very close or exactly at prototypical width. The picture was taken with a macro lens. hmmmm........ jolly Conrail Queen :P

I suggest you run now as the Marines are on your scent! ;D
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: Mark5 on January 26, 2010, 04:40:07 PM: Quote from: kiwi_al on January 23, 2010, 09:11:02 PM
Quote
the long hood looks wide - it that an illusion because i'm used to seeing it in blue?

Well Robbman designed it and usually both he and Mark only produce something very close or exactly at prototypical width.

Actually, the hood conversions M4D does for Kato units are "fat" by necessity, since the underlying Kato mech is "fat". :D

Nice looking loco BTW. 8)

Mark
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: daniel_leavitt2000 on January 26, 2010, 09:51:32 PM: can we get a close up of the rear platform? It looks like the hood almost touches the handrails.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: mcjaco on January 27, 2010, 10:07:24 AM: ^ The rear walkway does look too narrow.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: Robbman on January 27, 2010, 03:16:10 PM: (http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/4/3/4/9434.1185159600.jpg)

(http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/8/5/4/5854.1113709980.jpg)
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: FrankCampagna on January 27, 2010, 03:25:57 PM: Gee, Robbman, the walkways in those pictures look too narrow, also ;D ;D ;D.

Frank
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: Ed Kapuscinski on January 27, 2010, 04:21:21 PM: I don't know, Robb doesn't usually look at photos or drawings for his work. I've heard he does all his work from memory :-)

Looks pretty spot on to me, but I DO see how the real thing looks kinda odd too.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: Erik W on January 27, 2010, 04:31:31 PM: The hood length looks right. I think, if anything, the end railings don't go out far enough. That said, It looks fine to me.

http://archive.trainpix.com/BN/EMDORIG/GP15-1/1388.HTM

Erik
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: mcjaco on January 27, 2010, 05:18:41 PM: (http://lh6.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/Su5GD6uYcHI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/_5JliPhG_1Y/s800/dscf2170a.jpg)

None of the pictures are straight on like the prototype photos. From THIS angle, it looks too narrow.

I've remarked on the Atlas Board how nice these look, it's just an observation from someone that's done three CFNR GP15's in HO.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: Chris333 on January 27, 2010, 06:41:54 PM: Robb had to adjust his files so the shell would fit the Atlas loco.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: Chris333 on January 27, 2010, 06:51:43 PM: (http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n255/Chris333_33/IMG_6437.jpg)

Hey look it's 1496 :D
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n255/Chris333_33/IMG_6514.jpg)
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n255/Chris333_33/IMG_6446.jpg)
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: Walkercolt on January 28, 2010, 01:20:51 AM: Are there any sources for the Mark 4 shells now? I have two that I'd love to be more correct for their Frisco Manderian Orange and White paint.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: kiwi_al on January 28, 2010, 01:38:33 AM: Quote from: Walkercolt on January 28, 2010, 01:20:51 AM
Are there any sources for the Mark 4 shells now? I have two that I'd love to be more correct for their Frisco Manderian Orange and White paint.

Walkercolt where have you been mate?

Click on this link:

http://mark4design.com/index.html

and email this addy: mark4design@gmail.com

Then you too can have correct Frisco units!!

I'll post a pikkie shortly of the rear walkway since it's under FBI investigation..... ::)
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: kiwi_al on January 28, 2010, 05:02:13 AM: M4D longhood
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/S2FfrNq-22I/AAAAAAAABKw/9-tTGmDEn0g/s800/dscf2497a.jpg)

M4D longhood
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/S2FfrMDMEFI/AAAAAAAABK0/ZHKxMaxF9FM/s800/dscf2494a.jpg)

Original Atlas longhood
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_m3wUsq044Fc/S2FfrUhFD5I/AAAAAAAABK4/wYCToiqMtsg/s800/dscf2489a.jpg)

To be blunt there's only about 0.25mm or 0.5mm difference at most so I think you guys are being overly anal
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: SirTainly on January 28, 2010, 05:16:44 AM: Quote from: kiwi_al on January 28, 2010, 05:02:13 AM

I think you guys are being overly anal

This is The Railwire, did you expect any less! ;)

I wish I'd got an undec GP15 for the PN, but no spare money now, maybe sometime in the future.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: daniel_leavitt2000 on January 30, 2010, 07:42:50 PM: I never noticed the rear walkways were so tight.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: mcjaco on March 17, 2011, 12:23:53 PM: Just curious, as I have the CFNR SD-9s now, did these shells ever become available?

Sorry for digging this up.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: kiwi_al on March 17, 2011, 03:10:51 PM: Yes they are available but you have to contact Mark Gasson of Mark4Design. I don't think they are listed on his website.
If I were doing these again I'd file the front of the shell a bit more to give a wee bit more clearance at the backend porch. ;D
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: BOK on March 17, 2011, 04:39:28 PM: The walkways on the former SLSF units I ran when we started up the Wisconsin Northern (WN 1500 and 1501) seemed to have very narrow rear walkways. The other thing they had was a nasty way of making transition above 25 MPH. They would bang and sway hard when that happened giving the feeling that you had just gone on the ground.

Barry
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: wazzou on March 17, 2011, 05:05:52 PM: It looks to me when compared to the Proto pic that Chris uploaded, the problem lies in the rear anti-climber/handrail area.
It looks like the rear anti-climber sticks out quite considerably.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: mcjaco on March 17, 2011, 05:15:54 PM: The 15's did have awkward rear porches, and they were narrow.

I just thought these renditions seemed to be even narrower. Either way, at least we have an option for an Intertial Filter version now too.
Title: Re: Another GP15-1 thread
Post by: kiwi_al on March 17, 2011, 06:47:51 PM: True, I'm very happy with the Mark4Design long hood. I think Mark and Robbman have done an awesome job with these.