Friends, what a great enjoy! The first of my White Swan reefers is ready!
And I think the result is excellently! Look the pictures.
This was the first picture of the model which me sent my friend Jörg (Joerg) after he has painted and decaled the model - the first model as an attempt how he ought to realize this very difficult coloring and decaling.
Some days later I have had this model on my table and there were to add all wall parts again which must be removed before for a smooth decaling - door hinges, door latches and grab irons.
An enlarged and very clear photo where you can see especially my friend's excellent work. The biggest problem was to add the very large decal with all pictures, lettering and colors inside of the red basic color. Now I must add yet the last small parts under the frame - the water and dust collector at the triple valve (a part that breaks off permanently while working on the frame) including the connecting pipe to train line and the two brake hoses on ends of car.
Look here the small part at the triple valve and maybe the only parts which you can see from the side.
A last picture on frame from below which you will never seen while a regular model use on a layout.
I'm sure that you can not recognice that the floor planks on underside of the body is only a paper with a printed structure like planks. This was a good meant attempt of my friend (he is a printer with an own printing shop equipped with four or five large printing machines) because I must remove a pre-scripped styrene sheet in order to save a bit of car hight for a good looking coupler pocket. However there was to add a darker mixture of black and grey color onto the printed paper and so you can only to guess the wood structure on underside of body. I think that this is the only thing where I did not get that what I would like to receive but it is not to see while an ordinary use. And so the model satisfied all my wishes and hopes. Enjoy the result with me!
Can you recognize that the shaft of door latch is mounted with a small distance to the side wall? These latches were absolutely the most difficult parts on the model!
And last my first railroad employee who watches about my work since around ten years.
What says his sign about this model?
To remain with the truth, two or three things must be done yet by my friend for a complete finishing. The added brake parts must be painted yet and also the air hoses are to paint. I had hoped for a black finish with my metal blackener solution however the brass parts shine like in new condition. No wonder, the blackener is marked for working on nickel silver and also pure silver, but not for brass.
Ok, so my friend must do the last steps, a bit paint yet and a gently weathering.
And there are to paint and to decal and to finish four more "White Swans" too! Soe some more pictureswill follow yet - in 2017.
If you ask for differences of this model to other reefers ofa the time after 1900 than you ought to see the off-centered door position on these car and that they are 2ft higher than ordinary reefers of that time. I'm sure that I can use this model(s) also in my 1930 train until to the time as billboards on reefers were to remove following new AAR rules and so received a new model for my both modeling eras 1900 (+) and 1930 (+).
Please visit also a gallery on my website -
http://us-modelsof1900.de/?p=3479, where you find the whole history of this project and also a sketch of this car of a catalog of Seattle Car and Foundry Co. of year 1913 from where my friend and me found the idea and prototype dates in order to build such models. Another picture shows the same reefer decorated for
Carstens Products and I think that we built and painted models with a large conformity to prototypes. My friend and me would be glad if you like our work.