Southern E8 Request

[stlsf4003]

Now, i know there's already a southern E8 reskin in the file Library but given that there's now a new E8 available for Railworks. I was wondering if anyone would be up for taking a wack at it?

[buzz456]

Picture or two?

[Brickrail782]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q ... 4154606644

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q ... 4230415655

[stlsf4003]

Pretty much this, just without the ditch lights. Also of note is that from what i can tell, not all the units carried the Southern Crescent logo as seen here on 6900

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Now i'm not sure if this due to bad picture quality but it would also seem that a few of these engines might have come in the Southern's Black and white paint scheme as well.

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[wopflyer]

...Now i'm not sure if this due to bad picture quality but it would also seem that a few of these engines might have come in the Southern's Black and white paint scheme as well.

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Green & White was for passenger units and Black & White was for freight units usually.

[wopflyer]

Here's the Southern 6914. It was being shown at the Tennessee Valley Railfest on Sept. 8-9, 2018. I captured these screenshots from a video on youtube.

[buzz456]

I could be at this one for a while. Getting these curves right is a b**ch.

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[stlsf4003]

Take you'er time Buzz, i'm in no big rush. :)

Also, there's no need to skin a B-unit.

The Southern didn't have any for their E-units.

[harryadkins]

Wish you would do a clinic on how you formed those stripes.

Harry

[buzz456]

Wish you would do a clinic on how you formed those stripes.

Harry

Let me take some pictures as I go along on the other side and see if i can come up with a narrative that makes any sense to explain how I go about this.

[philmoberg]

That's the most accurate job I've seen on the most typical variation of the stripes. Well done!

As a historic note, apart from the Alco passenger cabs and, IIRC the earliest E Units, they spent most of their service lives in the black-and-white scheme, with nose logos not showing up until Graham Claytor's era. The green scheme most of us remember didn't show up until '69/'70, when Southern opted out of Amtrak. The Southern Crescent logo was created after the Crescent was dropped and the combined train began running on the Southerner's old schedule.

[buzz456]

I'm planning on doing the black and white one when I get done with the fancy one.

[buzz456]

Progress pic.

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[philmoberg]

[ET44C4]

Perfection...