12-05-2011, 11:28 PM
BR60103 Wrote:AF:
Walthers Goo goes back to before acryllic paint. My first craftsman kits were made with Goo at the important joints (all wood to metal and many of the metal) and then finished with the original Floquil.
These joints have outlasted a lot of the castings.
Thats good to know. Before doing the scratch builds with goo I had only used it to glue down weights in kit cars. Can be messy but if care is taken not that bad to work with. I will post an updated pic of hopper later as I added the diagonal braces to the sides now to find something suitable for nbw details, will use wire and staples for grab irons ans I plan on doing a small brake wheel & platform to finnish up the details may be a base coat of boxcar oxide red and some rusty highlites on braces.
I acquired some sheet cardboard about the same size and thickness as the back of a legal pad, I fore see some more cars in the near future and maybe experiment using styrene in the same method.