Friday, November 28, 2014

Tube Gon, Depressed Center Flat, WP Gon

See, I do build things that are not 3d printed.

OSTX Safe Loading Pipe Gondola
This tube gondola is a kitbash based on a Walthers Ready-to-Run model.  I use decals froOBS-CALS decals.

 One end was cut out, and brass wire and tube were used to build the special end.
The prototype..., interestingly, I don't seem to find any pictures of the real thing, except in copyrighted magazine articles.  Drawings fall into the same category.

The model from Life-Like, as show in a previous post, http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2012/04/freight-car-and-caboose.html.


Depressed Center Flat Car
I picked up the basic hunk of metal at a show, no trucks, no details, just the piece of metal.  I added brake details, trucks and gave it a coat of paint.



1953 Authenticast catalog page.  I believe this is the car.  Thank you to HOseeker.com!



Lettered for my Kansas City, Fort Smith and Gulf railroad.


National Cast Car Co kit build.
This gondola was built from a kit by National Cast Car Co. of Ontario Canada.  NCC supplied the side and end castings, the floor is just a sheet of styrene, and the under frame is from an Athearn gondola.  To the best of my knowledge, this is the only kit they ever produced.


I had long since lost the prototype information, once I got around to building it.  When I got ready to paint and letter it, I set it aside, hopping that I would find it, but after waiting a couple years, I just lettered it with some decals I had laying around.

I have a couple small dioramas that I should finish up over the long weekend, one of which is actually using 3d printed parts that were failures.

3 comments:

  1. The OSTUCO car does not have Jerry Glow decals but OBS-CALS decals. I drew and printed them and you are one of teh customers on my mailing list.

    NIce car, well done.

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  2. Thanks, fixed the blog above. Are they still available? If so, please give your ordering info, and we will see if we can't sell a few for you.

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  3. Smeesh. I never saw your reply to my comment until today. And that was only because a modeler contacted me about the decals. Yes, I still have the artwork and a working printer so I can and will print additional sets for anyone that needs them. And, since I print per order, the sets will always be fresh, even if they are ordered months from now.
    John Hagen (sprinthag @ yahoo.com) no spaces, or John Hagen, 21050 George Hunt Cir., Apt 821, Waukesha, WI (262) 395-4828 or (262) 385-4450.

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