Morning Lineup

[martyscustomn]

Milwaukee Ribside caboose waiting for the call. These 6 represent 'ridsides made from 1939-51......

[Dave Schneider]

Very nice job Marty. It would be great to see a photo of each one so that we can admire your work some more! If you don't mine me asking, what paint do you use for the orange? It looks like the right shade compared to the darker orange of the loco on the right margin of the photo (LL SW-1200?).

Best wishes, Dave

[wm3798]

Put a little Tom Mann to work there and that can look like a scrap line in no time!
Lee

[asciibaron]

looks great - Avery, ID?

[Puddington]

Sure, sure...big deal... six custom built Mil Rd hacks.... ya, ya, they are detailed; painted correctly and weathered...big deal....anybody could ...um.....ah..... nevermind......... :-[

You're a master hack builder Marty...$##%$@#$#@!!!! ;D

Great work !

[diezmon]

very nice marty!  So, where'd you find the photo references for the roofs??   I can never seem to find a pic of the ribside ROOF.

[wm3798]

I remain curious as to how you do the rib side effect...  Fishing line? careful filing?

One thought occurs to me... if you paint the inside edge of the window openings black, would that help mitigate the "fat plastic wall" effect?

Lee

[tom mann]

Very nice job Marty. It would be great to see a photo of each one so that we can admire your work some more! If you don't mine me asking, what paint do you use for the orange? It looks like the right shade compared to the darker orange of the loco on the right margin of the photo (LL SW-1200?).

Best wishes, Dave

Dave,  MILW actually used a different shade of orange on the cabeese (than on the locos) - I think they actually called the shade of paint "Yellow Caboose"!  So it looks like the right shade because it is supposed to be different!

edit: corrected paint name

[Philip H]

I remain curious as to how you do the rib side effect...  Fishing line? careful filing?

One thought occurs to me... if you paint the inside edge of the window openings black, would that help mitigate the "fat plastic wall" effect?

Lee

My reaction would be just the opposite - a blck line, no matter how thin, would draw attention to the windows, where the wall thickness becomes apparent.  Plus, if the windows were indeed painted orange on the prototype . . . . All in all great models.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Phillip, I think the technique would be (and I've done this myself on EMD cabs) is to do the inside of the window, not the frame itself.

[Philip H]

Phillip, I think the technique would be (and I've done this myself on EMD cabs) is to do the inside of the window, not the frame itself.

Hum . . . Maybe I need to try this and see . . . or you could post some pictures 

[sirenwerks]

I remain curious as to how you do the rib side effect...  Fishing line? careful filing?

I'm curious how the rib can created as well, as FVM has denied they will be making a 50' short rib to go along with their 40' cars.   I've thought of scribing grooves and laying thin diameter wire in and hoping paint will fill in where it needs to. I really need to see a rib up close I guess and have not had the chance yet or found a reference photo. That being said, I think these are production resin kits, Lee. I just can't remember who made them, JnJ maybe.

[martyscustomn]

To Answer some questions. JnJ does make a resin kit. All of these were made from Model Power and Lima cabooses. I use Poly Scale Mil Orange and Folk Art School bus yellow. The ribs are .010 brass rod. I groove the sides and then glue down the brass rod. The roof is sanded smooth and then detailed. The caboose needs to be shorten and the bays reduced also...01826 is a 1939 scheme....


02074 is a 1949-51 design. Window weather cover, roll down window, verticle hand brake, lateral welded roof and a radio antena....

[Dave Schneider]

Very nice job Marty. It would be great to see a photo of each one so that we can admire your work some more! If you don't mine me asking, what paint do you use for the orange? It looks like the right shade compared to the darker orange of the loco on the right margin of the photo (LL SW-1200?).

Best wishes, Dave

Dave,  MILW actually used a different shade of orange on the cabeese (than on the locos) - I think they actually called the shade of paint "Yellow Caboose"!  So it looks like the right shade because it is supposed to be different!

edit: corrected paint name

Thanks Tom....I knew they used a different color orange...that's why I asked. As we all know, orange is a tricky color to match and it seems like every Milwaukee Road modeler I, ask uses something different that looks correct to them.

Here is a Milwaukee Road color drift card showing the Engine Orange on the left and Caboose Yellow on the right.



Best wishes, Dave

[sirenwerks]

Marty, Thanks for the heads-up on how you create the ribs. One question to ease my mind though, do you round or taper the exposed wire ends, or let the paint handle that? And are there different 'types' of ribs. I went back and tried to find some detail photos and found some that show a flanged rib, which could be modeled by using a thin layer of styrene, then grooved, and wire layed in the groove....