Paint Shop

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[De Bruin]

You're welcome; in retrospect I should have taken a shot of the jig without the car body so you could see the block that rises above the base to position the sides during cementing, more ingenious attention to process there.

Sarge, that's one excellent looking Caboose body; nice paint and decaling with just the right diffusion of grime.
I applaud your ability to resist doing the version with port hole end windows, likewise the urge to do one of with those confounding elaborate external framed window screens. It's always good to have a matching caboose for any freight power, I agree the Weavers are pretty good; relatively easy to hack up and modify too. My only real beef with them as is being the car body height per bolster/truck. Nothing than can't be cured with a razor saw though.
Thanks for sharing your "vacation" from war time/consolidation era BRwys with us.
Pete

[sarge]

Here's as far as we're going with this, then:

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I picked up trucks and some diamond roofwalk material at Strasburg and found a photo of the top of one of the early cars to work off of. Odd there are only the long sections of walkway up top, and the ladders go to bare roof.

So, an early mark with square end windows, gutters, hoops, flush diamond walks up top, rock plates, close-enough trucks, that probably is neurotic enough for the purpose.

Thanks, Pete! Grin!

[De Bruin]

Far enough indeed Brian, great photo. I can't apologize though; I'm compulsive about having a matching caboose for any road power, especially good prototype as in "Alco-Anthracite Road-Stylish Scheme" etc etc etc Well done, additional details are interesting too, those diamond roof walks are a distinctive and, if you can find them, easy touch one never regrets applying after the fact. (Like that bonus boat in the foreground there too 8^)

[sarge]

No apology needed. It actually was a fun project, seeing how close you could get for less than $40 all in.

I think I'd like to scare up one of the old Russ Briggs NYC transfer caboose kits. I've done a couple over the years and never kept them afterwards since they weren't in era for what I was modelling at the time, though I rode the prototypes (why I built the models in the first place). They are nice kits, and I'm enjoying doing a couple models from the era of my memories when I do US stuff.

Meanwhile, back to the UK stuff for the next little while. I still have vans to build and more structures.

Thanks for the kind words!

[sarge]

Pete (and those who have interest)

This one some will hate and some will not, but for me another trip down memory lane, this time to my early working adult-hood.

I was cleaning up around the layout and came across an undecorated Weaver GP38-2. I also had some Microscale decals lying around. Tru-color paint, weathered with Floquil, turned out there was a CLW drive in it, but I still geared it down with a larger chain-wheel. The result is a Collinwood based GP38-2. I remember these as part of the road pool, wandering through in consists on the mainline trains through DeWitt on the ex-NYC mainline.

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[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[De Bruin]

Neatly done indeed Brian, like those black PC GP38, GP38-2's; maybe my favorite engine (sorry guys, I like BLACK PC diesels and motors) Clean and simple; ubiquitous and quite useful across a sprawling if unlike-able system(not for me though) like the late and not-so-great "Pennyless"-Central, furthermore as long gone as any P-Company or NYC unit or steam engine by now.
Again opinion, looks great, these un-dec Weaver's "blacken up" well, the only tedium I recall with these
(viewtopic.php?f=10&t=15609) is applying that big honking PC on the rear end of the hood and the yellow hand rails, otherwise not too much work to apply. I think the late great (made in USA) Weavers are beauties, and did a lot for our scale at a time when things were otherwise kind of bleak.

[sarge]

That big herald didn't offer great resistance once hit with Champ solvent rather than the faerie piss that Micro sell. After a general set, then pinpricks of the bubbles followed by Champ applied with a 00 brush and they settle in nicely.

Now, perhaps an F-unit or some CLW EMD or GE hood to pair with it...

[sarge]

One thing I do want to mention is this small favour that means a lot.

One of the sideframes on that GP38 was missing a brake cylinder. Even though he hasn't stocked those trucks in quite some time, Pat Mucci at P&D Hobbies had a couple cylinders floating about the shop. An envelope arrived today with a couple of them enclosed, sent gratis.

So, he took a little time, scared a couple up, and dropped them in the post. He is a class act!

Thanks Pat!

[healey36]

Sarge,

The peaked drip-strips over the windows are sharp - was that unique to LV cabins? The car looks very nice...I could use a tutorial on subtle weathering techniques such as this.

Healey

[rex desilets]

That big herald didn't offer great resistance once hit with Champ solvent rather than the faerie piss that Micro sell. <snip>

[E7]

I think the late great (made in USA) Weavers are beauties, and did a lot for our scale at a time when things were otherwise kind of bleak.

Pete, I agree 100%! Weaver provided some very nice stuff at reasonable prices. Their line of brass structures were very well done. I purchased several of their trucks, and wish I had more. I think they were under appreciated. Sad to see them gone!

Rich

[sarge]

Sarge,

The peaked drip-strips over the windows are sharp - was that unique to LV cabins? The car looks very nice...I could use a tutorial on subtle weathering techniques such as this.

Healey

The LV steel cars all had them, so needed done just to evoke the appearance. Just some Plastruct angle, so a quick job.

Next you're by, we can sit in front the spraybooth and go through the weather exercise.

Thanks for the kind words.

[sarge]

Time for another American outline project, an old Max NYC baywindow caboose to go with my old CLW GP35 and another unit yet to be determined.

A little bit of soldering and straightening (a very therapeutic process) then the mechanical fitting up of trucks and couplers to make sure no more cutting and banging are needed before paint. Shot the colour and a clearcoat to decal over, then screwed it all back together to check the borders and let it cure. Here is the state of things so-far...

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