Finally! A waycar update

[nkp_174]

Neato! I'd really like to try scratch building some rolling stock like this. Great work.

Thanks. Perhaps your road needs some MoW equipment? That is a good way to add older, wooden cars. Based on your track work, they'd look great!

It is good to finally see lettering on the waycar. I wasn't happy enough with her to want to work on her...but she wasn't near bad enough to junk.

As for casting, details matter. A flat, level surface is worth its weight in gold. Mine are glass/faux glass sheets that I robbed from dollar store picture frames. I'm really not a fan of Alumilite resin...it is too viscous for me to get good results without a pressure pot/de-gassing. Otherwise, I follow the standard procedures.

I'm currently working on several sets of masters for an On3 resin passenger car business. I've made it a rule not to photograph the molds and masters...only the resin castings. I'm saving that for an article or such. I don't exactly see any competition for the cars I'm working on...there isn't enough demand for them to attract commercial products. I started down this path a year ago. I was planning to do a series of 4 identical South Park coaches. It makes more sense to cast them as opposed to fabricating each of them...and since the molds are good for around 50 cars, I might as well offer them for sale to help cover my costs/increase the variety of passenger cars on the market. Now, I have a laundry list of cars to do...none have ever been commercially offered.