Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Sand and Paint, Sand and Paint...

Today was Day Two of the 205 "Work Party" and Day One of "Frank's Boss Is Wondering Where He Is." It was a pretty quiet day on the property, with Tim Peters' work on "L" car 1268 the only other obvious activity. I sanded down yesterday's paint job and then sprayed a coat of primer on the car. Overall the surface finish thus produced is quite satisfactory, I think; there are a number of runs (nobody ever accused me of being a good spray painter) and some other spots I want to touch-sand tomorrow, but overall the side sheets of the car are a good deal smoother than when I started. Success!

In other news, I also primed the roof ladder, which will later be painted dark green, and attached the trolley retrievers that had been primed back in early May. The trolley ropes look a lot better cleated to the retrievers and not hanging slack. The photo accompanying this post is a cell phone photo; note the newspaper masking festooning the car for spraying on primer.

Know anyone with experience spraying Centari who would be willing to turn this car orange?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Jamie K has a lot of experience shooting Centari. It's what almost all the diesels were painted with.