NKP 1000 Series Caboose Kitbash Project

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I don’t know how many of you might be interested but I have written a series of blog posts for my Along the Right of Way blog about a kitbash project for the Nickel Plate 1000 series wooden caboose.

All five of the parts of the project have now been posted; part one can be found here:

http://thecourier.typepad.com/alongtherightofway/2012/01/nkp-1000-series-caboose-kitbash-part-i.html

If you are at all interested in the Nickel Plate, cabooses or kit bashing projects, I’d invite you to stop by and take a look.

Thanks!

dlm

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Dan

This looks interesting! I am not into the NKP but I do like kit bashing.

When you get to the painting part I hope you will spend some time on how you managed to paint the grab irons so neatly.

Dave

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Nice! I like how that turned out!

It turns out the Pere Marquette had ten cabooses (A260-A269) that were built at the same time and were nearly identical to the NKP’s 1000-series cabooses, long before the two roads were joined by common ownership.

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Dave,

All five parts of the project are posted now. As to the grabs, they were sprayed off the model then installed.

dlm

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Dan! Darn!!

Why didn’t you tell me that before I CA’d all the grab irons into a total of ten cabooses that I am working on right now?!?[banghead][banghead][banghead].

OK, humour me a bit more. How do you hold the grab irons when you are painting them? I’ll bet I know the answer already - you leave the stubs on the grabs long enough that you can hold them in a vise of some sort while you paint them, and then clip off the excess. At least, that’s my best guess.

Thanks for your answers and your great modeling.

Dave