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C&EI War Bonds boxcar
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Bruce
Cool looking car; it’s nice to built ‘out of box’ and not get boggle down with a difficult kit. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne. |
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Prototype photo from the Protocraft website:
https://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?Itemid=417&Categoryid=20 |
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golden1014
Nice job, Bruce! That model has been an RPM classic for 20 years now. I think you added the right aftermarket details to make it stand out. I also think you nailed the “dusty” effect perfectly. That effect is hard to get right—it’s easy to over-do it but you got it right. Very inspirational! Thanks for sending.
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Speaking of WWII I'm just finishing up Nimitz at War, an excellent book if you haven't read it. Also the Pacific War Trilogy by Toll is also excellent. Fenton On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 10:52 AM Bruce Smith <smithbf@...> wrote:
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at least until September 1949 if not later my guess is that the steady rotation of cars due to the AB brake mandate by 1953 would result in none of them getting past 1953 - but weren't "savings bonds" being advertised as well ? basically, the same thing. On 9/3/2022 11:45 PM, Brian Carlson via groups.io wrote: Doubtful. There were directives to paint out war bonds slogans at the end of WW 2. Let me see if I can find the PRR notice I’ve seen before. --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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Tony,
Thanks! One of the delights in modeling 1944 is that I get to have the "slogan" cars (or at least many of them!)
Regards,
Bruce
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Very nice-looking car, Bruce. Wish I could justify one of the “War Bonds” schemes in 1953 . . . Tony Thompson tony@... |
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gtws00
Nicely Done,
Thanks for sharing George Toman |
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Doubtful. There were directives to paint out war bonds slogans at the end of WW 2. Let me see if I can find the PRR notice I’ve seen before.
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Brian J. Carlson On Sep 3, 2022, at 11:18 PM, Scott <repairman87@...> wrote:
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Scott
According to the protocraft site those cars where repainted in 1953 so maybe??
Scott McDonald |
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Tony Thompson
Very nice-looking car, Bruce. Wish I could justify one of the “War Bonds” schemes in 1953 . . .
Tony Thompson tony@... |
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Marty McGuirk
Bruce,
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Nice job! At some point I have to dig my kit out and build it. Thanks for the inspiration! Marty McGuirk On Sep 3, 2022, at 6:23 PM, O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> wrote:
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Looking good Bruce, it has that ‘dirty’ 1940’s look
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Fenton On Sep 3, 2022, at 5:48 PM, Bruce Smith <smithbf@...> wrote:
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Folks,
I finished up a Des Plaines C&EI "Buy War Bonds" car. This is a plastic kit with a Des Plaines Viking roof and 8-rung ladders included in the kit.
Based on discussion many years ago on this list, and my interpretation of a fairly dark
exposure of 64150 with this scheme, I painted the doors black, There was some issue with whether the roof was black, but I elected to paint it and the running board box car red.
I added a Yarmouth wood running board with etched brass supports to the Viking roof, and
a Tangent Klassing brake wheel and gearbox. The uncoupling lever was bent from 0.012" brass wire and the wheels were replaced with Rapido "code 88" semi-scale wheels.
Matching the paint was a bit of a challenge, but I think I got close with a mix of German
Grey, Red Leather, and camo medium brown.
Weathering was with oils, enamal panel seam wash, and acrylics. Chalk mark decals came
from several different Sunshine sets.
This is the closest I've come to a straight out of the box box build in a while!
🙂
Regards,
Bruce
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL
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