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 Posted - September 16 2012 : 5:00:22 PM
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As I have been working thru a series of previously-purchased flea market rolling stock, upgrading them as I can, I also have been working on inexpensive loads, where appropriate.
I had built the Walthers Cornerstone Interstate Fuel & Oil Depot lasy year and there were tank sections left over (as per the height of the two vertical tanks I built). I had obtained an E&C 52' mill gondola car (E&C- kind of like a pontiac- out of date and out of production!) many years ago and came across it in my rebuilding efforts.
The kit was in the original box, so I did some minor work at first- knocked down the paint shine with Dullcote, painted the underframe and undercar flooring flat black, replaced the wheels with metal ones and the couplers with Kadee #5's. Then I looked at the weight cover (interior floor) that sat on top of the car weight strip. The scribing was very shallow, so I placed some .040 thick V-groove styrene with .060 interval scribing on top and weathered it in my amateur manner- I glued the new V-groove flooring to the top of the original floor insert, gray primered it and then weathered it with dry brushing of Model Master wood acrylic, followed by 2 coats of a wash of black ink/alcohol aplied with a wide brush. I dull coted the flooring, set it aside.
I then used Pele Soerborg's (Done in a Day) idea for wood blocking, using kitchen matches and CA glue. These were left untreated, as my research shoed than most blocking is tossed at the end of the trip, unless an identical load is returning or being re-loaded. A kitchen match comes out to 9" square as a piece of lumber, so it seems right to me as a scale item.
The tank (or agro silo???) sections were glued in pairs, as that fit the car interior width, primered and then painted dark gray primer (for final painting at the user's end????), CA glued to the block forms and then I used double stick tape to secure the blocks w/ loads to the car floor, so that I could later remove them and perhaps put a different load in.
Here are the results:
Notice my new "photo-taking foamcore backround" ??????
Thanks for viewing.
Siouxlake/ Ron
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Posted - September 17 2012 : 05:59:09 AM
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Ron,
Your work looks as if you took a lesson off me! VERY nice! I love the open loaded cars as I'm sure you've seen!
The silo sections was a great idea! The load looks realistic, and is "chocked" to the floor, and overall, looks GREAT!
Nice thing with gondola's tho, you done need chain! Which is one the reasons I have them, and flat cars! This load would have also been a really good looking load on a flat car as well! With all the chain webbing needed to hold the load sections in place during travel....
GREAT work, man.... keep posting what you complete I'm always up to see new open loaded cars!  Gives me more ideas of loads that come from the scrap box of junk!
~John
Many have tried to, and failed, ya just can't repair stupid...
Do NOT try to Idiot-Proof anything!!!! God, will simply create a better......IDIOT!
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