Alco C420 Hoods

scottb613 · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 13

Hi Gaetan,

I know you always have a ton of stuff on your plate... My BLW ZT purchases always revolve around routes that I actually have so I can run stuff on their home rails - so if I don't have an appropriate route - I usually avoid those packages. I have Garber's Cumberland and it's always been a favorite - especially since I've heavily modded the route. Your old L&N pack is seriously dated and could use a little TLC at some point - which I would love to see brought up to your current standards. If you recall - you graciously allowed me to share my reskinned C420 and it looks pretty good - the only thing that really bothers me is the shape of the front hood - it's pretty far off the actual prototypes shape. Due to the age of the package - this was probably done to save polys for performance - is there anyway you possibly revisit the hood on the C420 and put the appropriate curves into it ? Do any of your newer packages have an updated C420 shape that fixes this ?

Thanks to all you guys who make this great content and BLW ZT - great job guys...

Regards,
Scott

scottb613 · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 13

Hi Gaetan,

Hah - OMG - in all my searches - I've never come across such a detailed shot of a C420 before - a restored unit with modern high resolution photography - I could make quite the template from this picture and I don't see a copyright on it...

Regards,
Scott

scottb613 · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 13

scottb613 · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 13

Gaetan · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:36 pm Post subject:

I will check that Scott

Gaetan

rfranzosa · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 3:28 pm Post subject:

Not to create more work, Gaetan, but a skin blank from these photos could also be used as a basis for other Alco Century 4-axle and 6-axle locomotives, do you think?

Merci

Rick

Gaetan · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 8:42 pm Post subject:

Sure rick

rfranzosa · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:31 pm Post subject:

Great! I can make some of these.... Very Happy