03-27-2017, 01:13 AM
I'm not at all familiar with that Swift reefer, but Tichy offers several styles of plastic ladders, and both straight- and drop-style grabirons in phosphor bronze wire.
Your two Armour refers appear to be Tycos. Many had overly-heavy paint, but the detail on these cars is actually quite good beneath that paint. Here's one that's been stripped and repainted. I substituted A-Line sill steps for the original cast-on (or broken off) originals, along with wire grabirons...
![[Image: Additionalfreightcarphotos034.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/Freight%20Cars%20%20%20Part%20I/Additionalfreightcarphotos034.jpg)
The paint is either Floquil or Pollyscale, with dry transfer lettering from C-D-S.
I also had another three which looked like this:
![[Image: 2013PHOTOS-DUFFCHALLENGE2003_zpsc0c8f82c.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/Freight%20Cars%20-%20Part%20II/2013PHOTOS-DUFFCHALLENGE2003_zpsc0c8f82c.jpg)
...but all four of them ended up looking like this....
![[Image: 2013PHOTOS-DUFFCHALLENGE2048.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/Freight%20Cars%20-%20Part%20II/2013PHOTOS-DUFFCHALLENGE2048.jpg)
There's a thread on the re-build HERE if you have some time to spare.
Wayne
Your two Armour refers appear to be Tycos. Many had overly-heavy paint, but the detail on these cars is actually quite good beneath that paint. Here's one that's been stripped and repainted. I substituted A-Line sill steps for the original cast-on (or broken off) originals, along with wire grabirons...
The paint is either Floquil or Pollyscale, with dry transfer lettering from C-D-S.
I also had another three which looked like this:
...but all four of them ended up looking like this....
There's a thread on the re-build HERE if you have some time to spare.
Wayne