Chuck's Freight Cars

[areibel]

That had to be the most frustrating build I ever did, and after all that I think it's still sitting in a box waiting for me to put the sides on to finish it. It started off badly, I messed up one of the first pairs I cut out and had to try and make replacements from the spare card stock on the ends. I'll have to admit the one you're doing looks better than the one I did!

[Bigelov]

Wow, is that thin card or plastic? You are definitely one keen modeller!

[TheKnighTT]

It was thin cardboard, glued with dilated white glue so the cardboard clings to the roof. And it turned out better than I expected.

Now I have to find out more about prototypes to know if I actually need to do this again. In hindsight it wasn't that bad to do. But next time I should use a proper exacto knife.

[TheKnighTT]

About a year ago I received a surprise package from Al with a couple of car kits. Many thanks. I finally got around to "finishing" the first one. It would have been fairly simple, but the resin parts did not fit that well. I´m not sure if I will change the sides to wood with white metal doors, hence the rubber bands. You can see the next one up is a wood reefer in the background, the body got it´s paint job this morning.

I also have some other cars ready for decalling.

[TheKnighTT]

Finally some decalling again. I will apply some more coats of Micro Sol, but I wanted to show something. Star Line sides reworked with some die cast fronts. Decals by K4decals.

[TheKnighTT]

As my new year´s resolution for this year is to get a full CPR train running, I start from the end and finished my fist van. I got an H.P. Products one. The other one I have has to many windows and I can´t fit Canadian Pacific on it. It might become a CN or GN caboose. I carefully took it apart and tried to rework it to make it more prototypical. There´s actually a small photo of a caboose with an off center cupola in the early H.P. Products catalogue. I cut the original sides in two, but the gap and the drill holes always showed, so I made new sides from Northeastern profile wood and also new roofs from card board. Completely repainted. Decals from Black Cat Decals, which was a waist, because it would also do the flanger and the snowplough and I just needed the number and the CP lettering.

I think I´m getting ready to build one of the Art&Detail wooden vans, if I can get hold of one.

[TheKnighTT]

When I was wondering why I didn't make any progress on the layout, I realized I didn't have any MOW cars. The crane is Roco N scale (it might have been sold as Con-Cor or Model Power in the US). I removed the cab and will build some wooden cab for it. Right now it's just as a scale test. I think it works.

Someone here had a Bachmann N scale crane with other trucks ( was it Arseny?), but I couldn't get hold of one for a reasonable prize.

[j p]

If you want a TT scale crane, Brownhoist crane is available on Shapeways:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/9ZXK9 ... 1-120scale

[TheKnighTT]

Thanks J P,
I forgot about that one. Seems somewhat expensive. Might be a thing for the future.

[RodTT]

There's a cheaper option here which may be adaptable:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/35HUL ... arketplace