07-08-2020, 07:19 AM
I've been on a bit of a freight car building blitz over the past month or so:
So far I've built a Tichy USRA hopper, A tichy Reefer and a Kaslo shops/Sylvan 1929 Canadian national single sheathed boxcar. I already built the same hopper and reefer and the boxcar project got away from me before I thought of posting a complete build on it.
I'm also building a number of cars at the same time because they will all be painted in the same Freight car light brown
As is typical with a Sylvan model, the side walls were considerably warped. I ended up epoxying athearn weights to the sides in an attempt to straighten them. I also used some industrial adhesive from work to glue the walls and roof together.
Speaking of that, I also found that the roof was about 1/16" too long so I had to shorten it to make it fit.
I decided to slightly modernize the car By using steel doors and adding AB brakes.
Not perfect, but passable.
So far I've built a Tichy USRA hopper, A tichy Reefer and a Kaslo shops/Sylvan 1929 Canadian national single sheathed boxcar. I already built the same hopper and reefer and the boxcar project got away from me before I thought of posting a complete build on it.
I'm also building a number of cars at the same time because they will all be painted in the same Freight car light brown
As is typical with a Sylvan model, the side walls were considerably warped. I ended up epoxying athearn weights to the sides in an attempt to straighten them. I also used some industrial adhesive from work to glue the walls and roof together.
Speaking of that, I also found that the roof was about 1/16" too long so I had to shorten it to make it fit.
I decided to slightly modernize the car By using steel doors and adding AB brakes.
Not perfect, but passable.