Yesterday I finally completed a project that I'd been meaning to get around to for months: paint and detail an F7A for the Cape Cod Railroad.
As you can see, there are a few flaws with it. First of all, this locomotive is an F7A, not an FP10 like the actual #1114-that's because no one makes models of the FP10s, at least from what I could find, and I had this F7 just sitting on my desk taking up space. This problem may be remedied in the future with the addition of red marker lights on the front, which is really the only visible difference between the F7 and FP10.Also, this unit has a hole for an additional head light-where the Mars gyrating warning light(more about those here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Light) would have gone. That's because this unit was an ex-Santa Fe unit, which was a railroad that had Mars lights on most of their F-Units. That will be patched with a piece of styrene sometime in the future.
In addition, I ended up not having enough yellow striping to go around the whole engine; I lost one of the large "1114" decals that go on the rear of the engine, so the right side doesn't have that; and finally, the paint lines could've been better. Nevertheless, considering that it is my first actual paint job involving the use of tape, and that it is my first job to have included decals, I think it came out looking pretty good. I also had an Athearn RTR Ford Stake Bed Truck that I didn't know what do with, and I wasn't using the passenger car decals, so...
