Looking to Print a Caboose...

[SkipGear]

I need to quit looking at my blown up pictures, I see all the things I forgot to touch up, like the sprue cut on the step and the end of the roof walk end that I didn't clean up and paint.

I'm going to build a narrow porch and pull out all the stops next.

The sagging is just something I may have to live with. I have heated and bent the parts back to where the looked right and they come back in a day or two. I think it has something to do with shrink rates as the resin cures. The wide porch has bracing added that is actually in the real caboose and it still sags. I have even thought about splitting the raft in two because if I cure them on the raft, the raft tends to curl a little bit unless I weight them down. More experience or maybe a different resin may solve this.

[John]

Maybe try a different resin .. I don't have any suggestions ..

[Maletrain]

Tony, I have been thinking about how to paint these according to B&O standard.  The the body is red, including the window frames, but the wooden parts of the widows themselves are green.  I am afraid that including the sun shades on the prints will make it hard to get a proper mask line for painting the windows, especially with those fragile mullions in the I-1 windows.

So, would you be so kind as to offer the option of getting prints without the sun shades?

[SkipGear]

The next one will have green windows. It should not be that hard to paint. I've done a laser cut version and painted the windows by hand. I can do a version without the window shades but I don't think the would print well by themselves. I made them out of brass on my laser cut kit.

Not all had green windows, it was only on as built versions. Most of the time after they were shopped, everything was dunked in red. There is some evidence of black window frames also.

[SkipGear]

I may have shown this before but my laser cut I-1...

[pjm20]

Curious, what laser cutter do you use?

[SkipGear]

Not cut by me. This one was cut by Matt from Fox Valley before he went big. I had to do some sectioning of the pieces as it was a bit too tall as he cut it. Also had to make my own step castings as he never got around to officially releasing the kit.

[wm3798]

I found,another example of what appears to be an I-? here in Banner Elk, NC.  Haven't been able to snap a portrait, but would probably show up in a street view on giggle maps..

[Maletrain]

I found,another example of what appears to be an I-? here in Banner Elk, NC.  Haven't been able to snap a portrait, but would probably show up in a street view on giggle maps..

Not seeing it.  What is it near?

[C855B]

https://goo.gl/maps/dJhewwRsU5BAH17UA

[Maletrain]

That doesn't look like anything the B&O ever ran. 

Maybe N&W?  Southern?  Anybody recognize it?

[SkipGear]

It's not a B&O. Can't really decide what it is. Round roof edges make it look like a Major Caboose (C&O) or N&W but the ladder in the middle of the porch throws things off.

[nickelplate759]

It's likely PRR  (an N5 maybe?), or less likely a B&M copy of a PRR N5.

[SkipGear]

Found it but now I'm even more puzzled...
https://pocketsights.com/tours/place/Red-Caboose-1024--33107


Strike that...wrong caboose. There are 3 in that town.

[C855B]

Still haven't discerned its heritage, but here's an article about its move and "restoration" for this ski shop: https://www.hcpress.com/news/what-happened-to-caboose-on-n-c-105-its-now-part-of-sugar-creek-gem-mining-co.html

Found it but now I'm even more puzzled...
https://pocketsights.com/tours/place/Red-Caboose-1024--33107

Strike that...wrong caboose. There are 3 in that town.

Yeah... just discovered that, too. We don't know that it's the "wrong" caboose, just that Lee said there was "a caboose" in Banner Elk. Damn tourist towns.