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Post by TBird1958 on Oct 25, 2020 11:05:22 GMT -8
Here's some of my week's projects. An Exactrail 7440 BFF appliance car, it would be a bout 3 years old on my layout so I' attempting to leave it pretty clean, the welded side panels are wavy like similar Pullman Standard cars, I've done some gloss and dull cote with my airbrush along with a little colored pencil and chalks Happy Sunday, Mark Hills  Two color of oil wash and some thinned out gray to dull the silver on the roof.  And a start on one of Dave Hussey's Cannon &Co kits - an SP B70-30 paper car. These are fun to build, a pleasant reminder that for some of us doing some modeling is very satisfying.   |
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Post by slowfreight on Oct 25, 2020 11:58:48 GMT -8
Nothing finished, but slow progress.  Picked a prototype for my malt boxcar. Roof is close to done, but might have to undo the last wash on a couple of panels. Next is roofwalk, which it still sported in 1983. I decided it would be easier to weather the sides before I added grabs and ladders. This car also got new Moloco rigid draft gear. Ugly coupler boxes aside, I'm finding that I really like this vintage first-run Intermountain kit and might need to find a few more. And it seems to have nicer detailing than the more recent ready-to-run versions. Having found a good prototype, I'm really enjoying working with this kit that I've had in the stack for over 25 years.  Below it is a more recent project. Hated the original roof on the Fox Valley SOO 7-post cars. Figured out Exactrail had a fine replacement. Couldn't locate block SOO car. Had old Herald King set and found CP Rail version cheap on the bay. Corrected trucks and upgraded couplers while at it with Tangent parts. Stripped, painted with rattle can (except doors), then found that old HK set was only for black-end cars, while block SOO 7-post cars had white ends. Ended up buying new Microscale decal set. So I'm probably getting this car done the hardest way possible. Unfortunately, the SOO decal was trying to break into pieces and I laid it down a little too much to the right and a little too low on the car. Moving it was out of the question but it's not going to be noticeable when the car is finished. Does anyone happen to know if SOO would paint roofs white? I thought they were always galvanized and unpainted, but it's really hard to tell from my proto photo: www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2914213 |
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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Oct 25, 2020 12:05:14 GMT -8
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Post by sp3205 on Oct 25, 2020 15:05:43 GMT -8
Mark, you've been a freight car factory of late. I particularly like the roof on the CNW forty-footer! I have a couple of Cannon cars ready for weathering, just need to clear out a couple of other projects first.
Here's a recently completed one, a Scale Trains SD40-2, as UP 3275. I bought a Southern from the first run, with the intent of making a UP snoot. Cannon short hood, cab, sub-base, and fans, and a few other odds n' ends. I had put off many times trying to make those unusual coupler lift bars, finally gave a shot.
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Post by sd40dash2 on Oct 25, 2020 16:09:20 GMT -8
^ UP 3275 is epic.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2020 19:59:43 GMT -8
WOW!!! UP 3275 is a masterpiece.
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Post by packer on Oct 26, 2020 4:18:28 GMT -8
Slowfrieght, I love how we both have those FVM SOO cars in the same scheme on the bench. Sp3205, that looks awesome. More small and easy projects:  I managed to score a Cheap WP and TOE Atlas 5077 boxcar. So the TOE car gave up it's doors for the WP car. Not entirely happy with the brown I used on the doors (it's krylon) but I have no clue what brown would be closer to what Atlas used. The Soo car was numbered for some RBL with full ladders and some detail changes. As neat as it would be to have a unique-looking RBL, I'm lazy (hence krylon). The BN car had a restencil date of 1985, past my era. Unfortunately in my haste I took off the "BN" in the restencil. I figure using a 1 and 3 from a microscale set I have, I can make a "close enough" BN.     Another cheap fixer-upper car. Definely too clean for what I believe is a cement service car (like the BN one above)  A fixer-up tangent dry-flow. i just cut some part of the U-shaped thing off and glued it on and put some paint on it. (Shout-out to tangent for answering emails about what part I needed) [img src=" ![]() i.imgur.com/JWEO2Nr.jpeg" style="max-width:100%;"]  Installed a Loksound in this F7. Wish I could find some nice B-units so I could have a set close to a Marias Pass helper set. Whomever had the unit before me weathered it, and got it all over the windows. I played with it a bit and tried to make it look like the wipers have been used to clean the dirt of the windows. |
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Post by riogrande on Oct 26, 2020 4:32:04 GMT -8
More small and easy projects: I managed to score a Cheap WP and TOE Atlas 5077 boxcar. So the TOE car gave up it's doors for the WP car. Not entirely happy with the brown I used on the doors (it's krylon) but I have no clue what brown would be closer to what Atlas used. I always wondered why Atlas didn't to the WP car in as-delivered rather than a later version with the different color doors. |
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Post by packer on Oct 26, 2020 4:36:01 GMT -8
I always wondered why Atlas didn't to the WP car in as-delivered rather than a later version with the different color doors. Not sure. Based on what I see at shops and online, TOE and WP didn’t seem to sell too well. Perhaps as delivered WP would have sold better? |
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Post by riogrande on Oct 26, 2020 4:40:11 GMT -8
I always wondered why Atlas didn't to the WP car in as-delivered rather than a later version with the different color doors. Not sure. Based on what I see at shops and online, TOE and WP didn’t seem to sell too well. Perhaps as delivered WP would have sold better? I agree. An as delivered WP version would have sold better. Maybe someone who worked at Atlas wanted a latter day version and chose to run it at the factory. |
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Post by snootie3257 on Oct 26, 2020 4:52:34 GMT -8
I always wondered why Atlas didn't to the WP car in as-delivered rather than a later version with the different color doors. Not sure. Based on what I see at shops and online, TOE and WP didn’t seem to sell too well. Perhaps as delivered WP would have sold better? I agree! I would have gotten a few as delivered version, but Atlas in its infinite wisdom chose not to do that version, so I purchased none. Steve |
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Post by slowfreight on Oct 26, 2020 7:03:58 GMT -8
Slowfrieght, I love how we both have those FVM SOO cars in the same scheme on the bench. Sp3205, that looks awesome. More small and easy projects: I managed to score a Cheap WP and TOE Atlas 5077 boxcar. So the TOE car gave up it's doors for the WP car. Not entirely happy with the brown I used on the doors (it's krylon) but I have no clue what brown would be closer to what Atlas used. The BN car had a restencil date of 1985, past my era. Unfortunately in my haste I took off the "BN" in the restencil. I figure using a 1 and 3 from a microscale set I have, I can make a "close enough" BN. Another cheap fixer-upper car. Definely too clean for what I believe is a cement service car (like the BN one above) Packer, weathering will fix a multitude of sins when matching paint. A dilute overspray of dilute black or dilute white (depending on which way the color shifted over time) will often blend it together. I had to do that on my CGW bulkhead flat when I struggled to match the Walthers factory brown. Don't worry about making a BN restencil on the covered hopper. Restencils could be applied anywhere a car had to get shopped, so dig through your decals and pick a location code or something. Even the font can be different. On this car, the stencils weren't even straight, and I couldn't read where it was restenciled so grabbed "MS" and a date from an old sheet.  That CNW car could have been in cement service, but may also have been in bentonite clay service on the Rapid City SD to Colony WY line. Not sure how far/wide they roamed in singles, but quite a few would interchange to BN down at Chadron NE to head west. The cement cars were typically 50-ton PS-2 hoppers up to the end. You can get some steam-era dinosaurs that ran out of Dakotah Cement in Rapid City as late as 1995 at UP takeover. CNW wasn't afraid to run old stuff as long as possible. |
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Post by riogrande on Oct 26, 2020 10:16:33 GMT -8
Not sure. Based on what I see at shops and online, TOE and WP didn’t seem to sell too well. Perhaps as delivered WP would have sold better? I agree! I would have gotten a few as delivered version, but Atlas in its infinite wisdom chose not to do that version, so I purchased none. Steve If Atlas ever gets around to doing the as-delivered version WP double door boxcar, I'd like to buy some then. |
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