04-13-2020, 02:54 PM
When I came back to model railroading, the only ways to have a prototypical HO CNR Wood Caboose was either buying a brass model or build a resin kit from Sylvan Scale. The first solution was too expensive for my budget and I was nervous at building a resin kit. When I got the nerves to give a try at resin kits, True Line trains was making good replicas of the CNR cabooses and kits had vanished from LHS shelves.
At the beginning of 2017, I was lucky to find one in a distant Hobby Store and a journey began. I saw a nicely finished car on a Forum and, as I was still nervous about the task, I decided to contact the modeler, Doctorwayne. He accepted to help me and gave advices through numerous emails. He even helped in finding a second model for me from one of his friend. Searching the Internet, I luckily found a third kit on eBay. I posted photos of those finished models on this forum before.
But I wanted more of those kits to replace True Line trains cabooses I had bought before deciding to build kits. Unfortunately, Sylvan Scale kits were hard to find even on different forums. One day, I decided to offer a TLT caboose to swap for a Sylvan Scale kit. A modeler from B.C. Canada contacted me and offered to swap for a Norwest kit. He sent me photos of the kit and I decided I should give it a try.
Few months later, Clare Gilbert from Sylvan Scale announced a rerun of the CNR Wood Caboose. I was a happy modeler and asked for two. For the last few months, I worked on those kits and I finished them this morning. Here are some photos.
Sylvan Scale regular kit
Sylvan Scale kit modified to represent the type displayed at Exporail, Qc, Canada
Norwest kit
This is the end of the journey as I now have enough cabooses to fill the need of my small switching layout. I can now get rid of those TLT cabooses.
I want to thank doctorwayne for leading me in this enjoyable journey.
At the beginning of 2017, I was lucky to find one in a distant Hobby Store and a journey began. I saw a nicely finished car on a Forum and, as I was still nervous about the task, I decided to contact the modeler, Doctorwayne. He accepted to help me and gave advices through numerous emails. He even helped in finding a second model for me from one of his friend. Searching the Internet, I luckily found a third kit on eBay. I posted photos of those finished models on this forum before.
But I wanted more of those kits to replace True Line trains cabooses I had bought before deciding to build kits. Unfortunately, Sylvan Scale kits were hard to find even on different forums. One day, I decided to offer a TLT caboose to swap for a Sylvan Scale kit. A modeler from B.C. Canada contacted me and offered to swap for a Norwest kit. He sent me photos of the kit and I decided I should give it a try.
Few months later, Clare Gilbert from Sylvan Scale announced a rerun of the CNR Wood Caboose. I was a happy modeler and asked for two. For the last few months, I worked on those kits and I finished them this morning. Here are some photos.
Sylvan Scale regular kit
Sylvan Scale kit modified to represent the type displayed at Exporail, Qc, Canada
Norwest kit
This is the end of the journey as I now have enough cabooses to fill the need of my small switching layout. I can now get rid of those TLT cabooses.
I want to thank doctorwayne for leading me in this enjoyable journey.
Guy from Southern Quebec.