Kitbashed IHC 50ft combination door boxcar

[sailormatlac]

I thought some of you would like this conversion from one of the worst model that I ever bought in my lifetime. The IHC 50ft combination door boxcar is one of the most inaccurate boxcar I ever saw. Everything on it is plain wrong, but for some reason I couldn't trash it. My first attempt at rebuilding it was a big failure, but now I'm back to it. This is how it looked after that first surgery.



I decided to only keep the sides, even if they are too short in height.



Then I removed the unwanted details.



Before cutting the doors and adding some plating to make them higher.





The new plug door details are made out of paper with handmade rivets.



And here's the car ready for the paint shop. Details are a mix of junk, styrene and some parts. The car ends and roof are Intermountain modified to look like NSC-3 car ends.







This car will be painted in CN wet noodle scheme and join my fleet of cars shipping plywood from B.C. to Eastern Canada markets.

Hope you enjoy!

Matt

[ak-milw]

Nice job making something out of nothing.

[e-paw]

Nice.

[sailormatlac]

Thanks guys!

Now painted and ready to be lettered.





Matt

[ak-milw]

Excellent work!!

[sailormatlac]

Now decalled and ready for new couplers and trucks and... weathering.







A 25 years old injustice is now undone!

Matt

[sailormatlac]

Weathered and ready for revenue service.







Matt