I just got my Atlas N scale ore cars in the mail, and their loads look TERRIBLE! Who’s got a good technique to spruce 'em up? My Kimberley ore needs to look more like Kimberley and less like Plasticville!
Can you post a photo so we can get a look?
Rich
From the atlas site, since it’s easier than opening up the layout…
And while we’re on the subject…has anyone got a way to have them couple closer together? It’s like half a car length between cars…the couplers are truck mounted.
How about some real iron ore, really. DJ.
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DJ, those look great! Somehow I think they might be a bit coarse in N…
Thanks for the link to the Walthers site, I think I might have found something a bit cheaper!
http://www.wig-wag-trains.com/Hay-Bros-Pages/Hay-Bros-Atlas-Loads-Product-Page.htm
How about these?
I have dealt with this seller in the past and is very reputable.
The shape of the load doesn’t look all that bad. Just a touch light., most cars were loaded fuller.
If you are staying with an iron ore theme, it’s pretty easy. Just go to the hardware store and pick up some iron ore colored paints like flat brown and red oxide primer. Pry the loads out of the car, spray them, and put them back. You will be surprised how real they look. In N scale the grain in the flat is about t he same size as the ore. Change up the colors from time to time since iron ore was rarely a uniform red.
If you belong to the Yahoo ironoremodels group there are some good prototype pictures ofred ore iron mines.
Bty the way, CP never really hauled much iron ore though Soo did in the US. Most of the iron ore in Canada was mainly along CN’s tracks or where no railroad existed prior to mining. I suppose Modeler’s License applies to a “new orebody discovered along the CP mainline west of Thunder Bay.”
For my HO I used Woodland Scenics coal that I sprayed with rust colored paint