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Walthers Work Flat - cnrglen - 11-04-2023
Working my ay through a number of projects that I've left unfinished for the past year or so. I bought a Walthers Work flat kit at a swap meet last year. I already had one that was built stock:
But I wanted to up the new ones game a bit.
I replaced the cat-in corner grabs with wire, then I weathered the deck with a series of grays, tans and washes.
I painted the rest on the car in boxcar red and gave it a single number since it's for my logging line. I still used the original gondola sides but I weathered and painted them.
I found the car was a bit on the light side so I used some stick-on weights and hid them under a stack on ties.
After that I replaced the cast coal/ gravel pile with woodland scenics ballast, The plastic barrels with some wood kegs of spikes, and some hand tools.
It needs it's final weathering yet.
RE: Walthers Work Flat - Charlie B - 11-05-2023
Very nicely done. A great addition to your fleet. It looks like it is right at home. That's a good idea hiding the weight under ties, you could hide some in the ballast as well.
Charlie
RE: Walthers Work Flat - tompm - 11-05-2023
Looking good!
RE: Walthers Work Flat - cnrglen - 11-05-2023
Thanks guys. I'm waiting to finish two other rolling stock projects before I add the weathing to the flat. Coming soon.
RE: Walthers Work Flat - cnrglen - 11-16-2023
I finished off the work flat this evening:
A mix of several weather paints and a bit of dry brushing to put some miles on it.
I faded out the number lettering with some polly-s dirt. The trucks are taken aparts and weathered, then reassembled on the car for the final touches.
I added both standard gauge and narrow gauge ties to the car since my logging RR runs both gauges.
RE: Walthers Work Flat - tompm - 11-17-2023
Great looking flat! Nice job.
RE: Walthers Work Flat - Genetk44 - 11-25-2023
I really like that….I didn’t know there was a kit available now. I scratchbuilt one about 10 years ago…I’ll tryand find a pic of it.