BQ23-7 Build Thread

[DKS]

The non-acetone nail polish remover contains Ethyl Acetate and Isopropyl Alcohol.

Yeesh, that stuff gives me a roaring headache, almost as bad as the new MEK substitute (still haven't found out what that is yet, not that I'd ever use it).

[VonRyan]

If it looks like a resin part made in a rubber mold, how do you know for a fact that it was made in a machines (hard?) mold?

I know the maker.
He worked in the tool-and-die industry and had is own mold-making business. He would machine in N-Scale detail parts in the blank space around, for one example, a scale rendition of a new skyscraper.
The mold, and subsequent castings, were made for a client, and he cast an extra for himself.


-Cody F.

[robert3985]

The non-acetone nail polish remover contains Ethyl Acetate and Isopropyl Alcohol. I bought a gallon in a beauty supply store. I was surprised that one can simply purchase beauty in a store... 

Peteski,

After looking at your photo, you need to go get your money back.    

[peteski]

Peteski,

After looking at your photo, you need to go get your money back.    

I should have added that I need to visit that place much more often (and spend a good chunk of my paycheck there)! 

[3rdboxcar]

Yeesh, that stuff gives me a roaring headache, almost as bad as the new MEK substitute (still haven't found out what that is yet, not that I'd ever use it).

The non acetone stuff does not smell nowhere near as bad as the ordinary stuff that my daughters use.

I have also used a product available in the uk called superstrip by pheonix paints www.phoenix-paints.co., put superstrip in the search box. I have painted and stripped a FUD model 3 times to try and get a good looking flat aluminium for my horizon cars, ended up using pheonix paint flat aluminium. There was no damage to the model using superstrip. Their paint is also excellent, as good as Floquil unfortunately they only do UK railway colours.

Alexander

[VonRyan]

pheonix paints www.phoenix-paints.co.

Phoenix Precision http://www.phoenix-paints.co.uk/

Fixed that for you.

(They also happen to be a great manufacture of prototype paints, but sadly for SPFs, Brunswick Green isn't the same on the other side of the pond.)


-Cody F.

[Sokramiketes]

Pearl Drops

LOL.  The cure all for polishing gears in an Athearn locomotive.

[John]

I got mine yesterday .. some pics of the work .. looks pretty good to me .. picture manipulated to show details

[davefoxx]

I received my BQ23-7 cab last night.  Yes, there is some texturing from the printing on it, but I am hopeful that will be rectified by burnishing.  Overall, I'm really satisfied with the quality, although I admit that I have not attempted to fit the cab to a B23-7 shell yet.

DFF

[davefoxx]

John,

What's your plan for windows and lighting?

DFF

[John]

John,

What's your plan for windows and lighting?

DFF

Not sure yet .. I have some detail parts left over from my GP10 project . .so might just carve off most of the details and replace with castings .. I am going to do grab irons from BLMA .. and add an Atlas horn .. windows I think are going to be made from document protector plastic, lined with silver sharpie ..

Here is alexander's build thread .. http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/14327

[davefoxx]

Thanks for the link, John.  That's very helpful.  I think I'm going to try to cut and fit a clear material (probably styrene) to each window opening, too.  That won't be fun, but not impossible.  I may try to see if I can figure out a fiber optic headlight.  In my era (1983-86), the SBD BQ23-7s could still be found on the point.  If I were modeling a CSX unit, I could get away without lighting, since they were considered pretty much B units at that point.  Heh, CSX units can even have their windows plated over, but that's too easy.   

DFF

[Philip H]

Mine' in the Bestine as we speak. I plan to pull, polish with toothpaste, and prime tonite. So we'll see.

[John]

Mine' in the Bestine as we speak. I plan to pull, polish with toothpaste, and prime tonite. So we'll see.

I dont have bestine .. nor know where to get it ..

[Philip H]

I got mine at an art supply house in Silver Spring on Georgia Avenue. I would hope something similar exists up your way.