TWR painted train

[bill937ca]

I don`t have any details on the two painted cars in this Tokyo Waterfront Railway train other than it is for an anniversary. Several videos have appeared in the last couple of days.

 

 

 

[Martijn Meerts]

The eyes and mouth sticking up just above the platform looks excellent :)

[cteno4]

Excellent! i too second the eyes and mouth at the platform edge! quite fun. ok micro ace time for a 70-000 re-release with these cars!

 

jeff

[nightshade]

that looks cool....

[cteno4]

I also kind of like the painted cars being at either end of the train.

 

jeff

[nightshade]

Q: where or close to waht does this train run by (might need to ask want some pics...... )

[bill937ca]

Q: where or close to waht does this train run by (might need to ask want some pics...... )

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinkai_Line

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Waterfront_Area_Rapid_Transit

[The_Ghan]

MA has done the 70-000 consist, but not in the painted colour scheme here.

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan

[cteno4]

hence ma needs to do the re-release with the painted cars!

 

jeff

[nightshade]

seem the train is gonna be runing till end of january with the paint sheme (found quite alot of articles and pictures online), prpbably not gona be able to see that one, but i think gonna see the Doraemon F train........  

[cteno4]

nightshade,

 

any good links to post? whats the scoop on the characters?

 

thanks

 

jeff

[nightshade]

when i get back home i post some links (work 12h shifts)

(all the links are in japanese, seems thre is alot of) but found good enough pics for

a car sides (gona try my hand at decals, thats assuming i can get the n scale train on my trip, if not i just wait till later)  my collection of train pictures is growing at incredible rate  

 

it seems it took some time to make a Gachapin train (there are statues at the tokyo skyport station)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gachapin

 

just found this

 

http://shibuya246.com/2010/05/12/gachapin-campaign-for-twr/

 

did not know it was passing by Ōimachi....

[bill937ca]

TWR Japanese language notice (with artwork)

 

http://www.twr.co.jp/info/2011/15th_anniversary_special.html

 

http://www.twr.co.jp/info/2011/img/15th_wrapping_l.gif

 

Can you make decals from the image above?

 

Hobidas Japanese language notice.

 

http://rail.hobidas.com/news/info/article/128897.html

[Martijn Meerts]

The image isn't high enough quality to make decent decals, but it'd be possible to trace it in illustrator and then print the traced image at high quality.

[bill937ca]

PDFs for cardboard models.

 

http://www.twr.co.jp/hobby/paper.html

[cteno4]

nightshade,

 

cool, thanks. these figures on these cars will have the issue of decals where you cant print white. those white eyes are going to be tough to do, even with white decal paper, but i guess you could try and punch out the eye with a round punch.

 

jeff

[cteno4]

the cardstock train pdf is very high resolution and would work fine for making the decals.

 

big rub is still the issue of printing the white on the images to go on the colored cars. these are pretty tough to do on white decal paper and try to cut out. wonder if dye sub printers will ever come back! there was some decal systems where you could put some white powder onto areas to be white and do something to it to make them go white, but have not seen that in a long time.

 

jeff

[cteno4]

bill just emailed this to me i had to share it! lol lol lol

 

Bill and Jeff were recently spotted driving a TWR painted train.  Jeff`s the taller one.

 

http://www.twr.co.jp/info/2011/img/15th_anniversary_special_p18_l.jpg

 

http://www.twr.co.jp/info/2011/img/15th_anniversary_special_p17_l.jpg

[Martijn Meerts]

The PDFs are definitely high enough quality to make decals :)

 

As for the white parts, just paint the car body white first. If you make water slide decals from the PDFs, they'll stick better if you paint the body glossy white. Afterwards you could seal the whole thing with either flat or semi-gloss clear coat.

[cteno4]

this only works if the car is white these are other colors. you would need to decal the whole car to do it this way.

 

there is a cheat if you just have a spot of white in the center of decal where you just paint a spot of white where that is to be and put the decal over it. not so sure it would work so well with this one.

 

if you match the car paint color perfectly to the decal you could hope to blend them with the dullcoat.

 

jeff

[nightshade]

i gonna try but if i actually get the train set

the first and last cars need to be stripped and primed or as mentioned above "paint the body glossy white" (but should strip em first paiting over orginal pain, duno about that)

if you just decal over ( it gonna look bad,  got a loco repaint

of ebay sometime ago and you can se the pen central from

beneatch curent paint lol) but anyhow it is on my to do list

[cteno4]

the issue if you paint the cars the red and green then you would need to try and match the paint colors on the white decal so when you trim large around the images it would blend. this would be the tricky part.

 

manufactured decals are on transparent film and they can do white as they can print white ink (inkjet and laserprinters cant).

 

jeff

[Martijn Meerts]

Actually, there is decal paper that's white instead of transparent.. You'd have to make 1 huge decal for the entire side of the train though.

[nightshade]

white instead of transparent..

yes there is, you can get it on ebay in sets or singles....

i was thinking about doing my metrolink stripes, road mame and

road number (duno if i can paint that small )

 

the issue if you paint the cars the red and green then you would need to try and match the paint colors on the white decal so when you trim large around the images it would blend. this would be the tricky part.

 

manufactured decals are on transparent film and they can do white as they can print white ink (inkjet and laserprinters cant).

 

its possible but would take some time

would have to mach pain close enough

(winder if painted the car red or green, then scan

and use the scan to mach the decal color   )

might just work .........

[bill937ca]

bill just emailed this to me i had to share it! lol lol lol

 

Bill and Jeff were recently spotted driving a TWR painted train.  Jeff`s the taller one.

 

http://www.twr.co.jp/info/2011/img/15th_anniversary_special_p18_l.jpg

 

http://www.twr.co.jp/info/2011/img/15th_anniversary_special_p17_l.jpg

 

Yeah!!  There's just no mistaking us.