Building EBT Coach 8

[Amalynn]

EBT Coach 8 was built by the Laconia Car Co for the Boston Revere Beach & Lynn. The car was sold as part of a batch of identical coaches to the EBT and numbered 8-11. When the EBT acquired M-1, they set up Coach 8 with roller bearing trucks as a dedicated trailer for it. The car survives and is at the railroad today, though it is currently down for some repairs.

The kit I’m building is a 3d printed resin kit made by Western Rails.

[Amalynn]

Whelp, I don't know why but I can't insert images from imgur anymore, so I guess hyperlinks are going to have to do


This first one is the trucks: https://imgur.com/a/TWh2LPx

Then I primed the body: https://imgur.com/a/snqxEUX

Here's the floor/frame primed: https://imgur.com/a/WC1x60R

I painted the roof a light grey and then painted the end platforms: https://imgur.com/a/NbCelHE https://imgur.com/a/0GtGupZ
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Then I masked off the roof and painted the clerestory sides: https://imgur.com/a/76g3mOx

I painted the bottom of the frame black. I didn't worry too much about good painting technique as none of this is really going to be visible on the final model: https://imgur.com/a/VvB5H33

The clerestory has these little vents on it. I added a little dot of brown paint to them to make sure they stood out from the rest of the clerestory: https://imgur.com/a/k0oJRss

I decided I was unhappy with the shade of grey on the roof so I re-did it with a darker grey. I like this a lot better: https://imgur.com/a/ymBYe8r

I painted the floor a rough wood colour: https://imgur.com/a/qWmLdAM

Finally I went through and painted the sides and ends: https://imgur.com/a/Anoy4nJ https://imgur.com/a/bRqjHC3
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I did have to go through and do some touch-ups because of paint bleed or spots where the masking wasn't as good as it could be.

Now on to assembling the rest of the kit.

[Charlie B]

Howdy.
       I am glad to see an update here.  You do know you can easily post photos direct from your files don't you? The only restriction is less than 500kb.  I try to keep mine to a 1200x900 pixel format or less.  

       The car is looking great. I am looking forward to the assembled car photos
Charlie

[TMo]

As Charlie pointed out to me a couple years ago when I had similar problems, Microsoft offers a free app called "Resize Image" that's super easy to use. Download is easy too, right from Microsoft. I usually pull photos off of my digital camera, crop and edit them, save the altered image and then run that through Resize Image before uploading. Good luck with the car - looking good so far!

[Amalynn]

I think I knew that, but it got mad at me last time over file sizes because I take the pictures with my phone.

TMo: That resize image app might be the ticket. I will look it up

[Amalynn]

Some good news: I managed to figure out how to get Imgur to give me BBCode links again! So future posts should hopefully have the image inserted properly like I wanted.

[nachoman]

Looking good so far. Any progress on this?

[LiveSteamer]

Yes I agree and how is the progress with modeling the EBT?

[Amalynn]

Shortly after the last update life got in the way and all my modelling stuff got packed up to make a sudden emergency move, so everything is in a bit of a holding pattern while we move and get unpacked and stuff. I’m hoping to get back to this very soon.

[LiveSteamer]

Shortly after the last update life got in the way and all my modelling stuff got packed up to make a sudden emergency move, so everything is in a bit of a holding pattern while we move and get unpacked and stuff. I’m hoping to get back to this very soon.

Sadly life does get in the way at times and requires modeling to be put on hold. I had put modeling on hold for quite a few years and just last year got back into it and I mean hot and heavy into it lol.