That's a mighty fine looking model of the E1! Glad you were able to
actually get one, even if it's not the exact number you originally wanted. Toot has a valid point; much as I loathe the present day "pre-order-and-wait" sales philosophy and many modelers have rebelled against it, if I see an announcement for a model of something I've really wanted for a long time, I'll go ahead and preorder it. I've heard too many stories of limited-run models never even making it onto LHS' shelves because the mfgr's only produced
exactly what they knew was already committed.
What I'm sharing is
not my most recent roster addition (though it was a few weeks ago), but it has an interesting story. I needed a sound-equipped switcher for my Ford assembly plant yard, so I bought one of these guys from MB Klein:
https://www.modeltrainstuff.com/atlas-master-line-ho-10002460-gold-series-s-2-locomotive-penn-central-9809-dcc-and-sound-equipped/
Really, I'm NOT all that fond of Penn Central; I chose it because the white lettering scraped off easily and the solid single black color was very easy to paint over.
Ford had a small fleet of their own Alco switchers like
this S-4, but only a single S-
2 (#10013) on their roster. No problem, one was all I needed anyway! So I airbrushed it in Ford colors and printed some inkjet decals of the Ford logo, and this is what I wound up with:
Unfortunately my cell phone camera didn't do a very good job of showing the weathering, but...it is what it is!
I'm come back later and post about the model I'm currently working on.