Some Detail Painting
I 've stayed indoors for the most part today. We've had passing thunderstorms throughout the day today and the heat and humidity is high. It is still bearable out there but I have no desire to be struck by lightning so I've stayed indoors and done some detail painting. (NOTE: Later in the day, some severe thunderstorms passed through and the temperature dropped more than 20 degrees and stayed down around 70 degrees for the rest of the day!) For this model railroading project, I am really wanting a nice looking cab so I'm spending a little extra time on various parts of the cab. Today, I worked a bit on detailing the backhead in the cab with paints and some extra parts. Now that I see this photo, I can see that I still have a bit more work to do with detail brushes but this is looking great so far... I'm installing a new bell and a new whistle on this locomotive. Here is the bell, below. This bell came to me as an unpainted kit so I needed to paint each part a