07-07-2020, 04:37 AM
Hello,
some long time ago, i purchased some unbuilt Westerfield kits. In times of lockdown i had much of free spare time and decided to use this for modelrailroad purposes. So i put these nearly forgotten kits onto my workbench. These are old school flat kits made out of this greyish polyester resind filled with metal powder.
This is why i called the thread WARP 10. They all were extreme warped und the resin is also extreme brittle.
Really no shake-the-box-kits.
As i have some Santa Fe affinity, i started with a AT&SF Boxcar first:
This is the picture on the instruction sheet how it should look alike when it is finished.
This is what i found in the box.
And complemented with Kadee trucks and couplers w. boxes.
Some body told me to spread the warped parts onto a level base and put them adjacent into the baking oven. Temperature about 60°C and let it stay thee several hours. It went well for about 2 hours until wife comes home. Increased eardrum strain.
On the photo there are the parts for three other boxcars also.
Two of them are Fowler Patent Box Cars.
Lutz
some long time ago, i purchased some unbuilt Westerfield kits. In times of lockdown i had much of free spare time and decided to use this for modelrailroad purposes. So i put these nearly forgotten kits onto my workbench. These are old school flat kits made out of this greyish polyester resind filled with metal powder.
This is why i called the thread WARP 10. They all were extreme warped und the resin is also extreme brittle.
Really no shake-the-box-kits.
As i have some Santa Fe affinity, i started with a AT&SF Boxcar first:
This is the picture on the instruction sheet how it should look alike when it is finished.
This is what i found in the box.
And complemented with Kadee trucks and couplers w. boxes.
Some body told me to spread the warped parts onto a level base and put them adjacent into the baking oven. Temperature about 60°C and let it stay thee several hours. It went well for about 2 hours until wife comes home. Increased eardrum strain.
On the photo there are the parts for three other boxcars also.
Two of them are Fowler Patent Box Cars.
Lutz