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Re: Weekend Update 11/29/15
« Reply #45 on: December 01, 2015, 01:12:13 PM »
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My weekend plan moved to Monday night due to a stomach bug that ran through the house all weekend.

This is a Kato car striped of it's Phase 2 stripes.  The Phase IV stripes naturally started to disintegrate making this project go from pretty fast, to a bit more time consuming.  I've fixed the alignment of the stripes a bit more after Solva Set had started to take place.

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Re: Weekend Update 11/29/15
« Reply #46 on: December 01, 2015, 01:26:32 PM »
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I finished the CPR mini box by weathering it.... certainly a unique car when it runs with its full height brethern...



Working on the mini box and on a couple of new CN 8 hatch reefers by GHQ it occurred to me that it's really a great time to be a Canadian modeller.....



Now; how about a CPR pressure unload hopper and a Procor pressure unload...?  ;)
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Re: Weekend Update 11/29/15
« Reply #47 on: December 01, 2015, 04:12:40 PM »
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Quote from: craigolio1 on November 29, 2015, 01:18:31 PM
I hate disassembling loco trucks to paint them, especially tricky ones like the new Kato trucks with "suspension", so I made some masks.







I tried this a couple of years ago with a Mid-pro Kato SD40-2. It worked really well. These ones will take care of everything I have in the paint shop right now.



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 Great idea, are they styrene?
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Re: Weekend Update 11/29/15
« Reply #48 on: December 01, 2015, 09:24:52 PM »
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Pud, 

Wow.  Just wow.  If I didn't already know this was N and you told be these models were HO or O, I would believe it.
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Re: Weekend Update 11/29/15
« Reply #49 on: December 01, 2015, 10:46:39 PM »
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Quote from: DeltaBravo on December 01, 2015, 04:12:40 PM
Great idea, are they styrene?

Thank you. 

Yes they are. .010", although the that was a little thick to fit between the wheel faces and the backs of the sideframes/contact strips. .005" May have been a better choice but it's a bit flimsy. I made a jig so that I could resize the different trucks. For that I used .010" sheet cut about 1"x.5". Then I used .010"x maybe .125"? strip to go in between the spaces behind the truck side frame, on either side of the axel points. Once in place I put a piece of tape over to hold them in place. I used that to cut a basic template which shaped to the exact fit. It became the mast I would use to trace the remaining three.

Then the taped one could be untaped and resized for the next truck. It took very little time and will be used over and over.

Craig
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