04-01-2010, 12:04 AM
...well, mostly. The touch-up paint on the interior needs to dry before I can weather it. But the exterior is weathered with only a layer of 'grimy gray' Bragdon powder, including the trucks. The couplers rec'd a dusting of rust, and that's it. To my eye it looks to be well used but not too worn. Grimy gray makes the details 'pop' and looks like balast dust, I think. I also like shiny wheel treads. These wheels are ribbed-back wheels, btw.
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Here's also a before shot to show one of the better examples before the rebuild began. It's hard to tell, but a good bit of the work was rebuilding the car to be true and square. It has come a long way to look mostly like it did in the beginning!
But the detail work is there if you look closely, and of course I know it's there! :ugeek:
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Galen
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Here's also a before shot to show one of the better examples before the rebuild began. It's hard to tell, but a good bit of the work was rebuilding the car to be true and square. It has come a long way to look mostly like it did in the beginning!
But the detail work is there if you look closely, and of course I know it's there! :ugeek: [albumimg]2269[/albumimg]
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!