Dear Bob
No intent to disparage your result, and I surely agree that the basic body has
much to recommend it (which is why I am using it), but
the underbody and ends are entirely unsuited to scale modeling. Those are what
need the most attention.
Bud Rindfleisch kindly scanned the second part of Bernie Thomas' article in an
S Herald from the sixties, and he ended up with a much
improved scale conversion, but more a freelance and not one which confirmed it
as one of the "northeastern steel" prototypes (Reading, LV, CNJ, WM, LNE, and
many secondary owners). That is perhaps the difference between those more
innocent times and the current expectations for modeling.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> I just uploaded a file for a demonstration of how to make a "daily driver"
> out of an AF caboose body. All I used was a cheap Testor's paint brush and
> Testor's Flat Black for the roof, Poly S Santa Fe caboose red for the roof
> walk (to make it look faded), and Testor's white to hi-light the cast-on
> grabirons.
>
> I also used some granite dust to weather the roof
>
> Were I to do this "right", I would spray paint the entire carbody flat black
> to start, then apply the colors over that.
>
> Anyway, I thought anybody wanting to convert AF caboose bodies to scale might
> want examine this before they carve up any more caboose bodies. They were
> remarkably detailed for their time in the first place.
>
> Bob Nicholson _______________________________________
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