08-18-2010, 02:57 AM
Hallo friends,
I say this because I read all your friendly welcome innovative tips for solving my problems.
First of all, thanks for that all and all your ideas.
Second, the problem is solved fortunately and I will write about it, today or tomorrow.
However I will give a short annotation because I have had a really problem.
Sorry, your ideas were in my head also and I must abolish them, all. However I will write about the reasons.
I have written already that the body is closed by a very well glued roof so it was like a closed box and I did cut a small cutaway only in bottom for installation if lightning. Und I could not enlarge this cutaway until sidewalls. In this reason doing an inside wrapping was impossibly. A coloring inside was a very difficult problem also because I did not work with a brush in all edges and I was sure that the liquid color would run between wall and inside glued window strips and I must paint exactly and sharp contours around each window getting a 100 percent cover – and that trough a small cutaway in bottom. And last it was impossibly an outside blackening because I must color all window cutaways including the frames and that with inserted windows which were not only flat strips of clear styrene but really contoured injection-moulded parts. And last I could not remove all the windows because they were glued exactly und very close all around to the walls. I knew many industrial produced models and in many cases you can solve the parts using a sharp knife – but here the Chinese modelmaker were not stingily with glue.
My first idea with starting this rebuilding project was also that I must not give the model a new color because the V&T model must have a yellow body at end; and that model with a coloring scheme of Chicago and North Western Ry. in yellow was exactly that what I would need. Removing the old lettering was not a problem. Because of inserted and glued window glass I would and I must avoid a new coloring of my model.
However now that all is history and you will read what I have done with my next post.
I say this because I read all your friendly welcome innovative tips for solving my problems.
First of all, thanks for that all and all your ideas.
Second, the problem is solved fortunately and I will write about it, today or tomorrow.
However I will give a short annotation because I have had a really problem.
Sorry, your ideas were in my head also and I must abolish them, all. However I will write about the reasons.
I have written already that the body is closed by a very well glued roof so it was like a closed box and I did cut a small cutaway only in bottom for installation if lightning. Und I could not enlarge this cutaway until sidewalls. In this reason doing an inside wrapping was impossibly. A coloring inside was a very difficult problem also because I did not work with a brush in all edges and I was sure that the liquid color would run between wall and inside glued window strips and I must paint exactly and sharp contours around each window getting a 100 percent cover – and that trough a small cutaway in bottom. And last it was impossibly an outside blackening because I must color all window cutaways including the frames and that with inserted windows which were not only flat strips of clear styrene but really contoured injection-moulded parts. And last I could not remove all the windows because they were glued exactly und very close all around to the walls. I knew many industrial produced models and in many cases you can solve the parts using a sharp knife – but here the Chinese modelmaker were not stingily with glue.
My first idea with starting this rebuilding project was also that I must not give the model a new color because the V&T model must have a yellow body at end; and that model with a coloring scheme of Chicago and North Western Ry. in yellow was exactly that what I would need. Removing the old lettering was not a problem. Because of inserted and glued window glass I would and I must avoid a new coloring of my model.
However now that all is history and you will read what I have done with my next post.
Cheers, Bernd
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You can read some more about my model projects and interests in my chronicle of facebook.
Please visit also my website www.us-modelsof1900.de.
You can read some more about my model projects and interests in my chronicle of facebook.