Re: Photos: my A81 paint mod, three Rs at Ballarat

[david <david@nmit.vic.edu.au>]

Send it a few times..... much better. Now all we need to enhineer is the paint
supply to change from green to blue !!!

Regards,
David Head

Dave Proctor wrote:

> Yuri wrote in message ...
> >On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:30:09 +1000,  I wrote
> >
> >>I think
> >>painting the anticlimber gold would improve the front-on appearance.
> >>
> >>When I get my graphics PC up and running again, I'll try "e-painting"
> >>the anticlimber gold and see what it looks like:
> >
> >The computer's back up again as of last night, so I've taken my photo
> >of A81 located at
> >http://www.railpage.org.au/steam4me/images/diesel/cabs/fv_a81.jpg
> >
> >and "painted" the anticlimber gold.  I think this vastly improves the
> >front end of the loco no end, adding definition to the whole bulldog
> >nose (and is closer to the VR gold colour scheme, still the most
> >elegant colour scheme ever applied to a diesel in Australia).
> >
> >The Paintshopped loco is at
> >http://www.railpage.org.au/steam4me/images/diesel/cabs/fv_a81y.jpg
>
> This one looks heaps better - do FV have an email address you could send it
> to?
>
> Dave