Default SD40-2 Repaints

[shicoe30]

Whilst working on my Southeastern Wisconsin route, I've been working on some repaints that will fit the local scene. The CP runs a good number of lease and DME/ICE SD40's around so I felt like repainting some of them. Some can be seen in my "SE Wisconsin" thread, but I figured I'd compile them here. Just got back into 'em recently and plan to keep going if people are interested. Please critique them!

[BNSF650]

Them are really nice. Any chance of doing some BN Whiteface leasers ? and also FURX?

[artimrj]

Those look Excellent! shicoe. Just excellent!

[Machinist]

My critique is: Awesome! Very nice collored fleet, will look intersting in Route and its scenarios!

[Csxgp38-2]

The DME And ICE look way too purple based on photos. The others look awesome, you should do more of the ex UP/BN units, lots of leasers own locomotives in those schemes.

[shicoe30]

Finished off 2 more Icicles, and tweaked the colors on the other two. Look any better to y'all?

Fixed first two:


Two newest additions:


The quartet hanging out:


The foursome working together

[Csxgp38-2]

Much better dude~

[raptorengineer]

those are really cool. love the blue and white cefx. i see some cp rail in the background will there be shots of thouse?

[imnew]

good to go to file library

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Colour saturation is often a problem, especially with LCD computer monitors of now.

Railroad locomotives hardly ever come in fully saturated colours, mostly they are bleached by the sun and weathered with a little dirt, dust and rust here and there.
Take a look at the prototype NS Heritage Fleet which is released now and is still in spin-'n-span condition:http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/Community/Heritage%20Locomotives/

Yours are older locomotives, often in their second life. In my opinion you should apply a subtle "whitewash" with a lighter shade of the base colour to tone the colour's "contrast" down a little and make them blend if you don't want to weather your locos, which is an art in itself.

Other than that, they are very welcome and a nice addition to our rosters as these locos can be run over every route.