OK so I’m trying to start a interim project till I have the funds to do another KCS super gondola, so I decided to go after a Walthers depressed center four truck heavy duty flat car and building a load for it.
My current plan is to use the heat sink off an rc nitro engine as the base for the load.
I’m going for this sorta load.
Have you finished and painted the first gondola yet?
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I would love to see an update on that in WPF this week. Surely you have a “rattle can” of something around there. Then you can use it to test your theory of thick rattle can paint covering your mistakes and see if you like the results.
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Then do some decal work on it. Don’t worry if you have the correct decals, just use semething that you have to learn some skills. After all, it is only a test model.
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I really would love to see the results in WPF… can you do it?
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-Kevin
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That load looks like its on a flat deck not a depressed deck Walthers makes that heavy duty flat car also.
I have a fondness for flat cars and interesting loads.
MESTA_forge2 by Edmund, on Flickr
PRR_Flat_load by Edmund, on Flickr
One of my favorite depressed-center cars, PRR’s Queen Mary:
PRR_QueenMary by Edmund, on Flickr
Sure wish I could get one in HO. Brass models often sell for $500 and up!
I’m working on a few resin PRR F22 flat cars for a 16" Naval gun load… someday.
http://www.richyodermodels.com/rym_fc_co_f22.htm
Central Valley makes a pretty neat HD 41’ flat car of Northern Pacific design.
https://www.shop.cvmw.com/NP-Built-Flat-Car-Kit-1003.htm
I have found these kits for around $10. builds two cars! What a bargain.
Good Luck, Ed
Yes, but that is without trucks, couplers, and weight.
Oh, well, yes that’s true. I take it for granted since I have many containers full of those materials. If one were to buy them specifically for this car the cost would go up exponentially.
[:$] Ed [:$]
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I always use Kadee trucks & couplers, and add my own weights, so for my model projects these Central Valley flats are perfect.
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I have eight of them painted for the STRATTON & GILLETTE. They build into a fine model with plenty of space to hide weight if you want it empty or with a small load.
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-Kevin
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Here’s the load I was looking at.
I think I’m going to cut that if I can find it and stretch it a little to look more like the other load.
Kevin, your flat looks great!
That was my thought, too, when I saw the photo.
As much as it seems like an easy thing to do, I’ve never found any pre-cast plastic “bits” that could glue up into a nice HO flat car load. No reason not to try, though. It’s good for the little grey thing inside our heads.
Ed
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Thanks Chuck. I appreciate the compliment.
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The load is a repainted Chooch casting. The original color was an awful bright silver.
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-Kevin
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“The load is a repainted Chooch casting. The original color was an awful bright silver.”
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Load is very nice.
How did you make the tarp?
Howcum you started a second thread, using the photo above? You might want to see if a Moderator can merge the two, which would keep the replies together, too.
Wayne
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The piece of machinery, tarp, and pallette are all one solid hunk of resin. Chooch makes some amazing stuff, but the factory painting is terrible.
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I painted the tarp by starting with a medium gray. Then I drybrushed the high points white, I gave it a wash of Citadel Nuln Oil, and followed that with a thinned coat of Polly-S green.
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The drybrushing white and washcoat with Nuln Oil emphasizes the highpoints and shadows on the tarp. This creates artificial light reflections and brings out the folds and tight points in the tarp casting.
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-Kevin
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Thanks for the info. I was hoping that you had found a realistic way to make the tarps yourself.
Here’s a load!
File down the barbs at the ends and done!
It looks like I’m going to buy either an old Athearn Heavy Duty Flat or buy a undecorated Walthers Depressed flat, I think the Walthers is better because it’s more modern.
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I thought your railroad was set in the transition era. Have you changed this?
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-Kevin
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Not perse, my club operates in the 70s-80s so I was planning to put the car into interchange service on the club layout.