trisonic Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 That is beautiful, Craig! Yeah, I know it is a brown freight car............ Do you have a link to a Speedwitch site? Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 That is beautiful, Craig! Yeah, I know it is a brown freight car............ Do you have a link to a Speedwitch site? Best, Pete. Speedwitch is kaput...unfortunately no longer in business. His kits were very nice, his decals outstanding...I have a decent stash of both in my possession. He (Ted Culotta) has resurfaced lately with an article in the February RMC. Hopefully he'll at least get more of his decals printed up. You can pull up his old website at www.archive.org ...at least for historical reference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornado64 Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 athearn blue box SDP40 baught with missing handrails and spurious paint job painted into burlington livery awaiting me ordering decals from the US and obtaining handrails from athearn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Nice paint job, how have you got on with getting handrails from Athearn? Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornado64 Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 my biggest stumbling block is i deal in cash only and won't have a card , so athearn say they'll take a money order , just have to work out how money orders work because athearn have them and they are exceptionaly helpfull , i have to be honest and say Hornby could learn big lessons in that direction from athearn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 My resin building ways continue - this one is a Speedwitch CB&Q/C&S/FW&D class XM-25/26 single sheathed box car. The CB&Q and its subsidiaries (Colorado & Southern, Fort Worth & Denver) were madly in love with single sheathed box cars between the wars. This is a nice kit...parts as usual for Speedwitch fit well and the decals are second to none. I painted the car with TruColor paint, flat finished with Scalecoat flat. It's going to get weathered heavily and at that point will have the reweigh stencils applied to each side. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjgardiner Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Hopefully i'll be done and can post a couple of glamour shots of the finished car next week. -Stephen Well, it was done a while ago, but i completely forgot to take any nice shots of the CLRV. Finished project is below: Also finished some time ago, a Custom Finishing Models Pyke 18T Rail Crane. With added details to match for Ex-Toronto Terminal Railways Pyke in the Toronto Railway Museum Collection: I'm currently working on a 2nd model of CNR GP7 4803 for a friend (first time i've done a project a 2nd time, its a weird feeling as well as a BGR Group kit of a Canadian Pacific J-Series sleeper. It's the first resin car i've ever built, all my other resin projects have been road vehicles or small strucutres/details, so it's a big challenge. I'll post pictures sometime, the body shell is ready for priming and painting now, so i am excited about that process to really have it start looking sharp. -Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbonnetuk Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Since coming back from TVNAM I've been spurred on to actually complete a couple of projects inc a Atlas GP38 repainted and detailed to match one of BNSF's ex lessor 'Smurf' GP38-2's. As the prototype was a GP38 rebuilt to Dash 2 spec there were no major body mod required other than detailing. The fuel tank was shortened and dressed up with Cannon parts and a Hi Tech waste tank. After much faffing around as to what colour to use I when with Conrail Blue for the base colour which was then faded with a off white wash from my airbrush. Few bits still to add around the cab as well as ditchlight lenses and of course some weathering. Aim is to have it complete for display on the RPM table at the forthcoming Seaboard Southern US Show on 21st Sept Dan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Speedwitch is kaput...unfortunately no longer in business. His kits were very nice, his decals outstanding...I have a decent stash of both in my possession. He (Ted Culotta) has resurfaced lately with an article in the February RMC. Hopefully he'll at least get more of his decals printed up. You can pull up his old website at www.archive.org ...at least for historical reference. Update - Speedwitch has unkaputted himself. http://speedwitchmedia.com/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I'm not very good at this "work in progress" thing - I usually don't take pictures till the model's finished. So, the latest thing to emerge from my workbench is a New York Central Center-flow covered hopper with a Plano etched walkway; It also shows the new static grass on Wheelock. All the best Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
highpeak Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 This is a very similar hopper photographed near Boston on the Boston and Albany in the late 70s. Sorry for the rather poor scan, I had to use a photocopier and the original wasn't that great to begin with, but I thought that it might give you some ideas for weathering. Graffiti was not really that common at that time, and apart from general grime, most of the effects on the car are down to the spilled lading. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Nice picture, it looks like a pressure discharge version that NYC branded as Flexi-flo so it's a different prototype to my model of a gravity discharge car. I think one of the "train set" manufacturers did a model of the Flexi-flo cars that was quite a nice moulding though with talgo trucks. Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
highpeak Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 I vaguely remember the model you are referring to, I think AHM might have been the guilty party. I thought the weathering pattern from the lading was interesting in how it ran down the side of the car compared to a flat-sided car. I wish I'd been able to shoot colour back then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I think you're right about the maker being AHM, I passed one up at an NMRA meet for a couple of pounds a few years ago - didn't know what it was. The Flexi-flo cars were used for cement traffic, so I guess the weathering is the effects of cement dust and rain!. Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Yep, it was AHM. Basic body makes for a good start for a reworked model - trucks, couplers, replace the ladders/steps and the running board/roofwalk on top. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 A couple of recent builds, both from Sunshine kits - Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis 36' class XM32 box car, rebuilt from 36' wooden box cars Pennsylvania RR 40' class X37B automobile car. The raised center roof was to gain extra ceiling height within the loading gauge; if the crossover walks were on top of the main roof profile they'd foul the loading gauge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 And now, with added grime! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Georgia Clay? Nice work, Craig. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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