04-11-2012, 03:31 PM
Thank you guys for your very kind comments. I very much enjoyed to "ruin" this nice clean car, so I am glad you like it, too.
Reinhard, yes it is O-scale. The decals for the Geep are from Highball Graphics: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.mgdecals.com/homepage.htm">http://www.mgdecals.com/homepage.htm</a><!-- m -->. They offer decals for N, HO and O. The Corman decals were not available in O, but at my request they resized the HO decals. They are also doing custom decals and if you send them your artwork, they will print decals for you.
Tom, I built the GP9 from a Red Caboose body kit, making my own chassis and using a P&D Hobbies drive. It is much cheaper and runs much better at low speeds than an Atlas O-scale Geep. BTW, the body of the Atlas Geep is the same as they bought the tooling from Red Caboose.
![[Image: o5.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/o5.jpg)
![[Image: o6.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/o6.jpg)
Pete, I looked at countless pics of RBOX cars to see how far I could go with my weathering without overdoing it. You find some of those RBOX cars looking almost like new and others where the reporting marks and data is even less legible than on my car: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2366253">http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2366253</a><!-- m -->. Poor brakemen :mrgreen: :mrgreen: .
Reinhard, yes it is O-scale. The decals for the Geep are from Highball Graphics: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.mgdecals.com/homepage.htm">http://www.mgdecals.com/homepage.htm</a><!-- m -->. They offer decals for N, HO and O. The Corman decals were not available in O, but at my request they resized the HO decals. They are also doing custom decals and if you send them your artwork, they will print decals for you.
Tom, I built the GP9 from a Red Caboose body kit, making my own chassis and using a P&D Hobbies drive. It is much cheaper and runs much better at low speeds than an Atlas O-scale Geep. BTW, the body of the Atlas Geep is the same as they bought the tooling from Red Caboose.
Pete, I looked at countless pics of RBOX cars to see how far I could go with my weathering without overdoing it. You find some of those RBOX cars looking almost like new and others where the reporting marks and data is even less legible than on my car: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2366253">http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2366253</a><!-- m -->. Poor brakemen :mrgreen: :mrgreen: .
Kurt