Jace:
I didn't realize you were that concerned with under body detail from your
description ("My concern was to do the essential fixing to make it look like
something from 6-12" away;")
Personally, under body detail isn't that important to me. I don't want people
staring at the bottom of my rolling stock any more than the Fox info babes want
people staring at the bottoms of their mini-skirts!
"S"tring Bob ______________________________________________________
--- In [email protected], JGG KahnSr <jacek...@...> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Bob
> No intent to disparage your result, and I surely agree that the basic body
> has much to recommend it (which is why I am using it), but
> the underbody and ends are entirely unsuited to scale modeling. Those are
> what need the most attention.
> Bud Rindfleisch kindly scanned the second part of Bernie Thomas' article in
> an S Herald from the sixties, and he ended up with a much
> improved scale conversion, but more a freelance and not one which confirmed
> it as one of the "northeastern steel" prototypes (Reading, LV, CNJ, WM, LNE,
> and many secondary owners). That is perhaps the difference between those
> more innocent times and the current expectations for modeling.
>
> Jace Kahn
>
> General Manager
> Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
>
>
>
>
>
> > I just uploaded a file for a demonstration of how to make a "daily driver"
> > out of an AF caboose body. All I used was a cheap Testor's paint brush and
> > Testor's Flat Black for the roof, Poly S Santa Fe caboose red for the roof
> > walk (to make it look faded), and Testor's white to hi-light the cast-on
> > grabirons.
> >
> > I also used some granite dust to weather the roof
> >
> > Were I to do this "right", I would spray paint the entire carbody flat
> > black to start, then apply the colors over that.
> >
> > Anyway, I thought anybody wanting to convert AF caboose bodies to scale
> > might want examine this before they carve up any more caboose bodies. They
> > were remarkably detailed for their time in the first place.
> >
> > Bob Nicholson _______________________________________
>
>
>
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