12-28-2023, 05:33 PM
Spent the afternoon on my day off with Kartrak decals, gray paint, wheelsets, etc. I may have some more Barbet's to get to in the future, but everything out on the layout currently has been adjusted.
The green dye experiment is a dud for these two sea foam box cars. I've decided on a different tact for both of these.
One of the other box cars was a Life Like Reading XMLF box car that has a more prototypical paint scheme.
Unfortunately the chassis was for truck-mounted horn hook couplers. So, I took the best of each car - the Mantua chassis and the Life Like car body. However, the chassis was a tad bit smaller than the body. I built a receiving frame (a piece of thick styrene located in the middle of the car just above where the chassis would sit) and glued it in the body. Drilled two holes for small screws in the chassis that line up with holes in the receiving frame and now the chassis is firmly mounted in the carbody but can be removed. Now it's time to weather that car.
The other Mantua sea-green boxcar received a paintout over anything Reading on the car inspired by this one here (CR 147332 - RDG Class XMe | Conrail Photo Archive (thecrhs.org)). I plan on covering the paintout areas and weathering the remainder of the car and then adding white "CR" decals and an appropriate road number.
The green dye experiment is a dud for these two sea foam box cars. I've decided on a different tact for both of these.
One of the other box cars was a Life Like Reading XMLF box car that has a more prototypical paint scheme.
Unfortunately the chassis was for truck-mounted horn hook couplers. So, I took the best of each car - the Mantua chassis and the Life Like car body. However, the chassis was a tad bit smaller than the body. I built a receiving frame (a piece of thick styrene located in the middle of the car just above where the chassis would sit) and glued it in the body. Drilled two holes for small screws in the chassis that line up with holes in the receiving frame and now the chassis is firmly mounted in the carbody but can be removed. Now it's time to weather that car.
The other Mantua sea-green boxcar received a paintout over anything Reading on the car inspired by this one here (CR 147332 - RDG Class XMe | Conrail Photo Archive (thecrhs.org)). I plan on covering the paintout areas and weathering the remainder of the car and then adding white "CR" decals and an appropriate road number.
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