Very nice work Peter and no apologies/confessions are necessary. Clean work, good proportions and a good finish still trump super-detailing in my opinion. A great first effort.
Coincidentally, the day before your posting I was thumbing through the June 1950 MR (a little behind in my reading?) and came across an article on a scratch built "S Guage" twin-bay hopper by Herb Damm. It too looks pretty good, especially considering it was more than 60 years ago. MR must have a thing about S scale hoppers because I recall another article, later on in the 50s on building a CN hopper out of brass. Re the metal foil tape, you can probably also find it in the auto body repair outlets. It appears to be the same stuff as is used for furnace ducting. It grabs like crazy so you will get only one chance to align it correctly. Trying to remove a mis-aligned piece of this tape from a a scratch built styrene model could potentially damage it. Cheers Jim Martin ________________________________ From: Peter Vanvliet <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:32:28 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Scratchbuilt PRR H21a Finished Hello All, I am happy to report the completion of the construction of my very first scratchbuilt freight car (regardless of scale). It is a PRR H21a Quad Hopper. Some far more experienced modelers may laugh at my effort, but we all have to start somewhere. I made lots of mistakes, but all-in-all, the final item does somewhat resemble a PRR H21a... if you squint... hard... :-) I took me three months of free modeling time to build this car. I had a lot of fun. I was hoping I was going to enjoy the process, and I did. I have ordered several engineering drawings from the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society for this car. When they arrive, I plan to build more of them, hopefully with more accuracy and with the experience of building this first one under my belt. I still need to weather the car, and I also need to build a coal load for it. The from-start-to-finish article starts on this page: http://pmrr.org/Equipment/H21a/Scratchbuild.htm If you just want to see the final car, see the last photo on this page: http://pmrr.org/Equipment/H21a/ScratchbuildFinalizing.htm My next major project is to scratchbuild an accurate copy of the Canonsburg, Pennsylvania passenger station. Preliminary rough guesses lead me to believe I can build the model full-width to scale. It is going to be up against my backdrop, so it will only be a few inches deep. Enjoy, - Peter. -- Peter Vanvliet ([email protected], or [email protected]) Houston, Texas "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>) http://fourthray.com/ (my company) http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club) -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
