Custom F7 Models — v1 photos
Nobody sells the paint scheme in your head, so you spray it yourself. This is the full arc on a pair of Athearn Blue Box F-units: shells stripped to bare plastic, primered, masked stripe by stripe, and shot in custom orange-and-silver and blue-and-white liveries — then detailed with wire grab irons bent one at a time and installed by hand. The last frames show them where they belong: out on the handbuilt timber trestle, earning their keep.
F7 Athearn Blue Box Project Start
F7 Beside Crib Wall Forest
F7 Big Sky Blue Style In Hand
F7 Blue Coat Spray Session
F7 Blue White Nose In Hand
F7 Blue White Reveal Gray Nose
F7 Blue White Roof Top View
F7 Cab Side Pilot Detail
F7 Crossing Crib Trestle Canyon
F7 Elevated Line Overhead Yard
F7 Fresh Coat Paint Stand
F7 Gray Shell Blue Unit Behind
F7 Gray Shell In Hand Quarter
F7 Gray Two Tone Top In Hand
F7 Gray White Blue Shells Compare
F7 Head On Scenery High Angle
F7 In Hand Fan Row View
F7 In Hand Nose Flank
F7 In Hand Roof Fans Nose
F7 Masked White Stripe Side
F7 Masking Roof Band In Hand
F7 Nose Front Detail
F7 Nose Grab Irons Macro
F7 Nose Grab Irons Top View
F7 Nose Masked Gray Cab
F7 Nose Three Quarter Windowsill
F7 Nose Top Down Dark
F7 On Handmade Timber Trestle Closeup
F7 On Layout Log Cribbing Wall
F7 Paint Stand Spray Session
F7 Primer Shells Overhead
F7 Scene Log Wall Backdrop
F7 Shell Bare Black Nose
F7 Shells Primer Masking Pair
F7 Shells Windowsill Primer Trio
F7 Silver Coat Masked Nose
F7 Skewer Stand Taped Body
F7 Timber Trestle Top Down
F7 Trestle Planks Three Quarter
F7 White Roofline Fresh Masked