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 Posted - July 25 2014 : 8:05:02 PM
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I started this car after seeing a RailPictures Archives image of an old Minneapolis & St. Louis MOW flat car online. The original:
I used an old 40 ft. Athearn BB flat car as the base, although a longer one could have been more appropriate, but with my smaller layout, the shorter version will have to suffice.
Everything above the deck level was hand-made from styrene pieces and approximately sized with an HO scale ruler, to replicate the objects in sizes that were relatable to a human HO figure, which I used on the final model as a scale item.
The tank was made from irrigation PVC pipe ends and I used steel piano wire for the four stirrups. Basic Walmart gray primer was ink-washed to suit, but I left out rust weathering effects as I am still not conversant in applying that type of effect.
The results:
Siouxlake Ron
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Posted - July 25 2014 : 9:49:27 PM
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| Very nice.
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Posted - July 25 2014 : 10:42:06 PM
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Great job as usual, Ron! I always like seeing your work.
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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Posted - July 25 2014 : 11:43:16 PM
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| Nice, Ron...
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Posted - July 26 2014 : 01:25:39 AM
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| That is nice and it's cool to see the photo of the prototype. It almost thinks you could use this as a disguise for a track cleaning car (if those things actually worked . . . ha!). What do you suppose they kept in that big tank Ron?
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Posted - July 26 2014 : 01:59:43 AM
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coool Now I want one 
Do it say Standard on the original?
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Posted - July 26 2014 : 09:01:16 AM
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Barry: the original photo has a "gas" label on one end of the tank, which I copied. Probably for refilling gas-powered generators or gas-powered tools?
Ben: The original photo shows a much-faded Standard Oil logo on the side of the tank- perhaps this was a stationary storage tank at one time. I haven't seen Standard Oil signs since I was a kid up in Minneapolis in the 1960's. (didn't they become "Exxon"?).
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Posted - July 26 2014 : 10:30:13 AM
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Awesome car; thanks for taking the time to share with us.
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Posted - July 26 2014 : 1:23:21 PM
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Nice kitbash there!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - July 26 2014 : 3:30:53 PM
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| Exxon? nopes all Amoco gas stations became BP
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Posted - July 27 2014 : 10:24:54 AM
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I believe Standard Oil was broken up by the government as a kind of dangerous monopoly. (I wonder how long it'll be before the government recognizes that feature in itself.  ) In the Midwest, they became Amoco, but there were other companies in other places such as SOCONY (Standard Oil Company, New York) or SOHIO. I think of this breakup as an early childhood memory, so it may have been in the late 1960's or early 1970's.
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Posted - July 27 2014 : 10:40:40 AM
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quote:I believe Standard Oil was broken up by the government as a kind of dangerous monopoly. (I wonder how long it'll be before the government recognizes that feature in itself. ) In the Midwest, they became Amoco, but there were other companies in other places such as SOCONY (Standard Oil Company, New York) or SOHIO. I think of this breakup as an early childhood memory, so it may have been in the late 1960's or early 1970's.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - July 27 2014 : 10:24:54 AM
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nope WAY earlier than that Try 1911
Any Standard, American or Amaco out there was a regional company
Of course after the break up in 1911 John D. Rockefeller had shares in each of the oil companies that formed after the break up
(shut up Walt)
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Posted - July 27 2014 : 11:18:20 AM
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quote:
(shut up Walt)
Originally posted by microbusss - July 27 2014 : 10:40:40 AM
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the INFORMER
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - July 27 2014 : 7:38:17 PM
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quote:
the INFORMER
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â July 27 2014Â :Â 11:18:20 AM
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what? you guys didn't watch the Men Who Made America on the History Channel?
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Posted - July 27 2014 : 8:20:07 PM
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Looks just like it minus the rust and dirt of course.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - July 27 2014 : 9:39:52 PM
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NICE!!
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 Posted - July 28 2014 : 6:47:43 PM
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Beautiful job on that MOW car, Ron.  The ink wash gives the gray a lot of depth; maybe it looked like that earlier in its career.
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Posted - August 09 2014 : 09:19:27 AM
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Awesome build....
Could you give a clue to where you found the materials to build that?
Thanks!
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Posted - August 13 2014 : 10:33:16 PM
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From my OP: "I used an old 40 ft. Athearn BB flat car as the base, although a longer one could have been more appropriate, but with my smaller layout, the shorter version will have to suffice.
Everything above the deck level (the cabinet, welding rig, girders, etc.) was hand-made from styrene pieces (girders are available from Evergreen or Plastruct) or styrene solid rods (the side rungs on the girder) and approximately sized with an HO scale ruler, to replicate the objects in sizes that were relatable to a human HO figure, which I used on the final model as a scale item.
The tank was made from irrigation PVC pipe ends and I used steel piano wire for the four stirrups. Basic Walmart gray primer was ink-washed to suit, but I left out rust weathering effects as I am still not conversant in applying that type of effect."
When I refer to "styrene pieces", let me explain- I took small pieces of balsa and cut them, using an HO scale ruler, to give reasonable dimensions to the objects I was copying from the real world photo. I then used .010 very thin styrene sheet cut into an series of "opend-box" panels, which I then wrapped around the balsa piece and CA glued closed.
The PVC pipe ends are found in Home Depot in the irrigation fittings aisle- I took another piece of .010 styrene and made a liner for the inside of one pipe end, which then allowed me to align the two end pieces when gluing together- again, using CA cement.
The piano wire was standard K&S engineering .025 wire, and I very very carefully drilled holes in the base of the flat car side sill, using CA to secure them. Two of the original plastic ones were already gone on the model I used, so I decided to just do all four as wire stirrups.
I painted and "weathered" the flat car floor first, but only after dry-positioning the separate pieces.
The "hose reel hanging from the girder came from two reversed ho scale plastic wheels, sanded flatter on their faces, inverted and CA glued togther.
The "hose" is actually that solid styrene rod wrapped into several loose ovals, then CA glued to keep its shape. All plastic work was done prior to individual painting.
I looked up Miller welders online to get an idea of the dimensions, then used thee above-described balsa-and-styrene wrap method to make the shape.
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