Demonstrating How to Paint Black on a Penn Central SD45

Here is a Penn Central SD45 demonstrating how to ink a black engine. Many underframes, steam engines, and quite a few diesels are black. Black is Mars Graphic pen #9. When an engine is black, I suggest going over all of the doors, grills, etc. with your straightedge and a black ballpoint pen. Ever so slightly, this sheen will cause detail to pop out just the right amount on your finished locomotive. When painting black, I use two coats of #9 for the just from the Altoona Works SD40E look, or else I use a base of #9 and a top coat of a dark brownish/gray #890 to give the black engine the look that it has been on the road for a few years.