I am not planning on brake rigging, although I do expect to put in the basic
brake components (probably not even the first-class Grandt ones if I can find
some OK-looking castings), but toolbox and channel underframe seem pretty basic.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I have been a leg man as long as I can
remember... Not that I have checked out fox programming (Anne Coulter's skinny
legs seemed to establish a precedent there).
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> I didn't realize you were that concerned with under body detail from your
> description ("My concern was to do the essential fixing to make it look like
> something from 6-12" away;")
>
> Personally, under body detail isn't that important to me. I don't want people
> staring at the bottom of my rolling stock any more than the Fox info babes
> want people staring at the bottoms of their mini-skirts!
>
> "S"tring Bob ______________________________________________________
>
> --- In [email protected], JGG KahnSr <jacek...@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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> >
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