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 Posted - January 26 2013 : 2:37:04 PM
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Hi y'all,
I had an idea yesterday and I was wondering what anyone thought of it.
I'm somewhat strange - I'm both a serious model railroader who's looking to be as prototypical as I can, but at the same time I appreciate the classics like old mantua, varney, and some AHM and tyco and such freight cars. I'm also on a budget and usually but everything used and broken. I'm also in high school, which doesn't really leave a lot of time to do the modeling I have in store. All this means that I've accumulated an entire room full of old rolling stock, at least half athearn blue box, all of it waiting to be fixed, repaired, modified or full-on restored. I usually have the time to get a car finished in a couple of evenings after bedtime (yes, virginia, in this house they still enforce bedtime around 11). I figured it might be cool to share some of these projects, so I thought that even though there's a car of the week forum, I'd like to start my own "freight car project of the week" - that is, once a week, I'll pluck a random mystery box out of the heap, then do whatever work is needed, take pictures, and post the story on here. There's anything in those boxes - it could be as mundane as rehabilitating a worn-out athearn car to a full kitbash-painting-lettering deal.
What do y'all think? This week is an old mantua 40' gondola from the sixties. Since I run kadees+metal wheels, and I want this gondola in my regular fleet, it needs heavy running gear modifications as well as some cosmetic restoration. Almost done! Pictures not here yet :P
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Posted - January 26 2013 : 4:12:49 PM
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Sounds like a plan to me.
By the way, when I was in high school, it was 10:00 p.m. for me.
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Posted - January 26 2013 : 4:35:43 PM
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I know the feeling  . High school wasn't long ago for me so I get the whole time and money problem. College doesn't make it much easier, although at least I have a job now! I'm looking forward to seeing what you've got 
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Posted - January 26 2013 : 5:31:53 PM
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I remember my high school years! I had a mantua 4-6-2 sit in pieces from 2010 (Year I graduated) to 2012! Hope to see these frieght cars soon!
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Posted - January 26 2013 : 6:15:25 PM
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* Ahhhh, a fresh idea. You should go through them first and find out which have hope of being repaired and which will be parts for others. This is like triage which is away to estimate, and grade, which can be saved, and which are hopeless. Remember, if this plan B is no good, go back to your plan A.
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Posted - January 26 2013 : 8:00:06 PM
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<<< I had an idea yesterday and I was wondering what anyone thought of it.
I'm somewhat strange - , so I thought that I'd like to start my own "freight car project of the week" - that is, once a week, I'll pluck a random mystery box out of the heap, then post the story on here.
What do y'all think? >>>
There's several guys on here who post their projects and progress intermittently. I don't see any reason you can't post your own topic weekly. Either people will view it, and comment, or they won't if it's not interesting. Either way, I'd say do it!
Jerry
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Posted - January 26 2013 : 8:27:33 PM
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Well, I guess it's a go then. And they all have hope of getting a new life, it's just a matter of how impossible that will be. There's a caboose in a box that's only there because I lost the truck screws, then there's a scratchbuilt covered hopper somewhere with a bunch of styrene odds and ends with which I have to scratch-re-build it all over again. Next victim is probably an athearn NYC autoloader in for restoration, THEN it will be random after that.
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 11:23:37 AM
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quote:<<< I had an idea yesterday and I was wondering what anyone thought of it.
I'm somewhat strange - , so I thought that I'd like to start my own "freight car project of the week" - that is, once a week, I'll pluck a random mystery box out of the heap, then post the story on here.
What do y'all think? >>>
There's several guys on here who post their projects and progress intermittently. I don't see any reason you can't post your own topic weekly. Either people will view it, and comment, or they won't if it's not interesting. Either way, I'd say do it!
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â January 26 2013Â :Â 8:00:06 PM
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Threads about a project from start to finish are interesting to me.
I have learned some new techniques and get inspiration from seeing how others work on their projects.
Ray
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 10:38:36 PM
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I know that "SCVR66" is providing his skills and expertise on his layout and descriptive experiences of Roundhouse/MDC locomotive kits, he posts his progress here and on YouTube.
Give your efforts and ideas a go. It will be only helpful to the observers.
John
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Posted - January 30 2013 : 9:44:01 PM
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| i like this idea as well, this type of thing does facinate me, as for a project I had one..well a few....the most recient freight car i screwed up and was about to toss it when I relized "hey it looks like it got in a crash..." so yea go with it I would even contribute when/what I can if you wanted :)
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Posted - January 31 2013 : 3:14:17 PM
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Technical difficulties are preventing me from doing anything yet... sorry folks, maybe next week I can get it started?
--CRC
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Posted - January 31 2013 : 7:14:55 PM
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well to start this fun off heres a before and after of the car that started out as an OOPS turned to a workable piece
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Posted - January 31 2013 : 8:20:08 PM
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yeah don't ever throw out mistakes 
Use the mistake for something else
Like this for example Could be a car in a wreck or in a scrap yard scene
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Posted - February 12 2013 : 10:43:27 PM
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| yup thats the idea behind the damaged car is for either scrap yard scene or an accident scene or something along the lines of either one of those...;)
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