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HO Scale Utah Coal Route GS Gondola Kits Available
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Corey Bonsall
Hello everyone,
I've just completed a batch of Utah Coal Route GS gondola kits in HO scale, and listed them on Ebay. There are two options for grab irons: solid "cast" type, and wire grab drill points. Thanks for looking! https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&_ssn=bonsallscalecarshops&_sop=10 Corey Bonsall
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Tony Thompson
Corey Bonsall wrote: I've just completed a batch of Utah Coal Route GS gondola kits in HO scale, and listed them on Ebay. There are two options for grab irons: solid "cast" type, and wire grab drill points. Thanks for looking! Doggonit, Corey! Now I have no excuse not to have accurate UCR cars!! But great choice, and I will look forward to seeing one of these. Tony Thompson
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Corey I was very excited to see this car, and the model looks really good. :-) But the LETTERING !! I'm beyond the time in my life when I am satisfied with mediocre lettering. Would Ted Culotta be interested in doing lettering for your models? His artwork is impeccable. Anyway I'm hopeful something can be done, because I am really interested in models of these cars. Were there any other owners of the same gondolas? They remind me of some other GS gons. Tim O'
On 12/7/2019 7:59 PM, Corey Bonsall wrote:
Hello everyone, --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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lrkdbn
These cars look extremely well done. Two questions- who does your printing, and what is the resin or plastic that is used?
Sincerely, Larry King ,<lrkdbn@...>
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Corey Bonsall
Hi Larry,
I'm 3D printing these at home on a Formlabs Form 2 SLA resin printer, it uses a acrylic liquid resin that is UV photo-sensitive. I do end up with some support blemishes on one side of the car, but those can be manipulated in the printer software to be on easily-sandable locations. Its a wholly different animal than the cast resins or styrene. I'm also doing the decals myself, using a Ghost White laser toner cartridge on Microscale paper. Tim, I'm still learning Inkscape to do the artwork, but my middle age and one bad eye must be getting to me, I cannot see hardly any difference between the model and the photo. That is one of the very photos I stared at for days to create the artwork too. I am probably biased though... These cars did have a lot of similar cousins, I think the CB&Q/C&S had some very close, as well as the 43k series D&RGW. If we tweak the end side sheets, we get the D&SL cars as well. The main set of prints I used to draft was a pre-WWI USRA pattern with a few tweaks, so some of the design components/ratios showed up in a lot of cars to follow. Thanks everyone for the feedback, Corey Bonsall
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