Re: Any news on Loco #168?
| March 22, 2015 12:51PM |
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Skip Wrote:
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> Blue boiler? Is it possible that she orig-
> inally had a Russia Iron boiler jacket?
> Many modellers use blue to replicate
> Russia Iron, although that's not the
> right color. Would be more grey.
>
> Wish she could be restored to pre-
> 1900 look.
>
> You could maybe get Russo to paint
> it "Russo Iron!"
That's "Roosso Iron" to you, Skip -
And the irony for Rússo Loco is that he'd have to change his moniker to
"Der BleichBlauishGrauschimmelDampfKesselMantelLiebhaber".
( Try saying THAT as fast as you can ten times!!
)
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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> Blue boiler? Is it possible that she orig-
> inally had a Russia Iron boiler jacket?
> Many modellers use blue to replicate
> Russia Iron, although that's not the
> right color. Would be more grey.
>
> Wish she could be restored to pre-
> 1900 look.
>
> You could maybe get Russo to paint
> it "Russo Iron!"
That's "Roosso Iron" to you, Skip -
And the irony for Rússo Loco is that he'd have to change his moniker to
"Der BleichBlauishGrauschimmelDampfKesselMantelLiebhaber".
( Try saying THAT as fast as you can ten times!!
)- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
"Not All Who Have Cell-Phones Do Twitter *
"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think . . . "
* Only TWITS Twitter!
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