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Sunshine Models Missouri Pacific SS boxcar finished

Charlie Duckworth
 

Ever have one of those models that’s going together and then it’s ‘snake bit’ during the last few steps?  This poor model did; first I was drilling holes for the eye bolts for the couple pin lifter as I was pulling the drill bit out the entire end came off the the car.  Then I’d painted the car and was decaling it; I’d had a nice gloss coat and had put down several different decal solvents to meld the decals into the surface.  I was scoring the horizontal boards when one of the MP buzz saws tore breaking off a small corner.  I found another and scraped off the original one leaving the paint in that panel needed to be repainted.  I ended up taking the TruColor thinner and a Qtip and removing all the paint in the area between the Z braces and mixing up the FCB and ART yellow and respraying it.  Found another buzz saw and replaced it.   Ok, all well so I thought.  I was getting low on my Dullcote weathering mix (few drops of Black and Tan in thinned Dullcote) so made a new batch and started spraying the car.  I’m not sure what happened but the panel with the buzz saw and dimensional data was blacker than the rest of the carbody.   Tried removing the Dullcote with a Qtip dipped on Solvaset and while the paint Dullcote came off the lettering on the buzz saw also did.  Ok, scraped off another buzz saw, mixed FCB and ART yellow and shot the area again.  Added another buzz saw; decided probably should take a 35” walk.  Came back and sprayed the panel again with my Dullcote mix.  This time no ‘snake bites’…

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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

Paul Doggett
 

Charlie 

Another superb job despite all the problems.

Paul Doggett 


On 19 Sep 2022, at 02:56, Charlie Duckworth via groups.io <Worth51@...> wrote:

Ever have one of those models that’s going together and then it’s ‘snake bit’ during the last few steps?  This poor model did; first I was drilling holes for the eye bolts for the couple pin lifter as I was pulling the drill bit out the entire end came off the the car.  Then I’d painted the car and was decaling it; I’d had a nice gloss coat and had put down several different decal solvents to meld the decals into the surface.  I was scoring the horizontal boards when one of the MP buzz saws tore breaking off a small corner.  I found another and scraped off the original one leaving the paint in that panel needed to be repainted.  I ended up taking the TruColor thinner and a Qtip and removing all the paint in the area between the Z braces and mixing up the FCB and ART yellow and respraying it.  Found another buzz saw and replaced it.   Ok, all well so I thought.  I was getting low on my Dullcote weathering mix (few drops of Black and Tan in thinned Dullcote) so made a new batch and started spraying the car.  I’m not sure what happened but the panel with the buzz saw and dimensional data was blacker than the rest of the carbody.   Tried removing the Dullcote with a Qtip dipped on Solvaset and while the paint Dullcote came off the lettering on the buzz saw also did.  Ok, scraped off another buzz saw, mixed FCB and ART yellow and shot the area again.  Added another buzz saw; decided probably should take a 35” walk.  Came back and sprayed the panel again with my Dullcote mix.  This time no ‘snake bites’…
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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

wrlyders
 

Charlie,

Great job. I do hope the single-sheathed box car I am currently building can hold a candle to your boxcar.

Bill L

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Charlie Duckworth via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 9:56 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: [RealSTMFC] Sunshine Models Missouri Pacific SS boxcar finished

 

Ever have one of those models that’s going together and then it’s ‘snake bit’ during the last few steps?  This poor model did; first I was drilling holes for the eye bolts for the couple pin lifter as I was pulling the drill bit out the entire end came off the the car.  Then I’d painted the car and was decaling it; I’d had a nice gloss coat and had put down several different decal solvents to meld the decals into the surface.  I was scoring the horizontal boards when one of the MP buzz saws tore breaking off a small corner.  I found another and scraped off the original one leaving the paint in that panel needed to be repainted.  I ended up taking the TruColor thinner and a Qtip and removing all the paint in the area between the Z braces and mixing up the FCB and ART yellow and respraying it.  Found another buzz saw and replaced it.   Ok, all well so I thought.  I was getting low on my Dullcote weathering mix (few drops of Black and Tan in thinned Dullcote) so made a new batch and started spraying the car.  I’m not sure what happened but the panel with the buzz saw and dimensional data was blacker than the rest of the carbody.   Tried removing the Dullcote with a Qtip dipped on Solvaset and while the paint Dullcote came off the lettering on the buzz saw also did.  Ok, scraped off another buzz saw, mixed FCB and ART yellow and shot the area again.  Added another buzz saw; decided probably should take a 35” walk.  Came back and sprayed the panel again with my Dullcote mix.  This time no ‘snake bites’…

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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

Lester Breuer
 

Charlie another fine looking SS box car.  As, for “snake bites” as we all experience at times, one has to keep muttering, “Model Railroading is FUN, Model Railroading is FUN” or maybe “Freight Car Building is FUN, Freight Car Building is FUN.”

Lester Breuer
Plymouth, MN

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