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Weathering progress

I’ve continued working on several HO scale hopper models. I posted my line up card last month that helps me keep track of the various work stages on eleven freight car models. It’s time to share a progress report.

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Author Eric HansmannPosted on July 3, 2021July 3, 2021Categories WeatheringTags coal hoppers, details, PRR, weathering9 Comments on Weathering progress

Decal time!

The last post shared detail on a line up card I created to organize work on eleven freight cars that waited at the paint booth. A few models have been moving forward with decal application.

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Author Eric HansmannPosted on June 18, 2021June 18, 2021Categories Freight Car ModelsTags coal hoppers, decaling, Prototype, PRR1 Comment on Decal time!

Line up card

After building a handful of freight car kits and detailing a few more, I had a traffic jam at my paint booth. I prefer to paint several models at a time but wasn’t expecting an eleven car pile up.

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Author Eric HansmannPosted on June 10, 2021December 19, 2021Categories PaintingTags action plan, box cars, coal hoppers, decaling, painting, workbench1 Comment on Line up card

Coal hopper details – pt 2

Let’s dive into more hopper upgrade ideas. Part one in the previous blog post covered end post replacement, and grab iron and hand hold replacements. Are you ready for more?

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Author Eric HansmannPosted on April 23, 2021April 22, 2021Categories Freight Car ModelsTags coal hoppers, details, Prototype, Upgrading Plastic6 Comments on Coal hopper details – pt 2

Coal hopper details

The last blog post covered upgrading hopper brake hardware from AB to KD brake components. The example was an HO scale plastic Bowser GLa class hopper. Let’s take a look at more upgrades you can make to hopper models.

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Author Eric HansmannPosted on April 16, 2021April 15, 2021Categories Freight Car ModelsTags coal hoppers, details, Prototype, Upgrading Plastic7 Comments on Coal hopper details

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Resource Pages

  • A guide to 1920s era HO scale plastic freight cars
  • A quick guide to Westerfield Models for a 1920s model railroad
  • Accurail Prototype Data
  • B&O Freight Car fleet of 1926
  • Car Builders’ Cyclopedias
  • Freight Car Fleets
  • RPM event calendar
  • USRA Freight Car Assignments
  • W&LE Freight Car Fleet of 1926

Archives

Blogroll

  • Bernie Kempinski’s US Military RR
  • Byron Henderson’s layout design thoughts
  • Chris Adams' Valley Local
  • Chris Ellis' Adena Railroad
  • Don Ball’s Stockton & Copperopolis Railroad
  • Frank Hodina's Resin Car Works
  • Gary Ray's Southern Pacific Gerber Division, circa 1926
  • Gene Deimling's Proto:48 blog
  • George Dutka's White River Division
  • HAVOC: a circa 1923 Free-mo project
  • Hicks Car Works
  • Hunter Hughson's Niagara Branch
  • Jason Hill's Night Owl Modeler
  • John Golden's Railroad Prototype Modeler
  • Lester Breuer's Minneapolis & Northland modeling
  • Marshall Stull's Small Model Railroads
  • Marty McGuirk’s Central Vermont Railway
  • Michael Hauk's Susquehanna & New York
  • Mike Clements' Central Artery
  • Mike McNamara's Northeast Kingdom Railroad
  • Modeling Steam Era Freight Cars
  • Pierre Oliver's Southern Pacific Clovis Branch
  • Ralph Heiss' Lehigh Valley NY Harbor
  • Rene Gourley's Pembroke:87
  • Rick De Candido's 1935 – 1945 HO Scale Modeller
  • Riley Triggs' Port of New York railroad
  • Steve Haworth's RGS Thoughts and Mutterings
  • Ted Culotta's Prototype Railroad Topics
  • Tom Patterson's Chesapeake, Wheeling & Erie Railroad
  • Tony Thompson’s Southern Pacific
  • Trevor Marshall's Port Rowan in S scale

Links

  • A Modelers Life podcast
  • Bob Sprague's Annapolis Junction
  • Chuck Cover's PRR Shamokin Branch
  • Chuck Davis' Lehigh Valley, Wyoming Division
  • Craig Bisgeier’s Housatonic Railroad
  • Dave Husman's Wilmington & Northern branch
  • Greg Amer's Industrial Lead
  • Jack Burgess' Yosemite Valley Railroad
  • Lance Mindheim's layout designs and builds
  • Michael Hohn’s Southern Central Rail-Road
  • Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine
  • New England, Berkshire & Western Model RR Society at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Prototype Junction
  • Randy Hammill’s New Britain Station
  • South Elkins: an old project
  • The New York Harbor Railroad of Dave Ramos
  • The Patch, by Keith Jordan

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