Bob, I would've guessed you noticed the Mainline stockcars as being too
wide with that center roof piece. I didn't care for the fuzzy "pine" (?)
stripwood in the kits either. Even the pre-assembled sides were very fuzzy.
The two I did for Ed L were both undecorated, the only thing that came
painted was the T&P letterboard. I tried to match that color as best I
could. It does need the addition of dimensional data, car numbers, etc
If you look closely, the unpainted car has something inside
it......cattle! They are wrapped up in plastic. Ed wanted me to glue them
in after painting but I felt they would break loose in shipping, so the
roof was left unglued and I didn't get to paint the second car anyway.
Bud
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Bob Werre <[email protected]> wrote:
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> ** Bud, That's what I had started back a few years ago--leaving out the
> center portion. Problem is I'm not certain exactly what state I had left
> the rest of the project. I do like the prepainted sides, I do hope they
> are half-way accurate.
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> Bob Werre
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> On 5/10/13 6:01 PM, Bud Rindfleisch wrote:
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> Bob, If you ever build the Mainline stock cars, check the roof to see if a
> square piece of wood to gap the two roof sides is included. If there is,
> the car will build up way too wide. I think these kits were originally
> designed for On3 perhaps. One caveat, leaving that square piece out and
> just gluing the two tapered roof sections together yields a proper width S
> scale roof. This also means reducing the floor, ends, and cast ends sills
> to an S scale width.
> Bud Rindfleisch
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> --- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> <bob@...> wrote:
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> > Back when I was living in a mobile home, I used to build those old stick
> > kits--generally one per week. When I got into my present home and then
> > added a layout room, things changed because the plastic kits were also
> > coming out. I still have some wooden kits to build, but they have to be
> > something special. I have a Branch Line door& a half tall boxcar (from
> > Wally Collins) in that stack along with two Mainline Models 36'
> stockcars.
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