Looking to Print a Caboose...

[SkipGear]

Instructions are done, decal research is done, just need to print the decals.....









Edit - Revised Decals, found more information.

[PJPickard]

Skipgear,

This is really a fine job you have done, the whole product.
I really have to get going on mine...

[wm3798]

Please do us the favor of providing a black ink paper print, perhaps even magnified... of the white decal sheet.  It drives me nuts trying to trim out white on white decals when I can barely make out where they are in the layout.
I lubs me some K4 decals, but they're mighty hard to see in N scale!  We're not getting any younger, you know!

Lee

[SkipGear]

Please do us the favor of providing a black ink paper print, perhaps even magnified... of the white decal sheet.  It drives me nuts trying to trim out white on white decals when I can barely make out where they are in the layout.
I lubs me some K4 decals, but they're mighty hard to see in N scale!  We're not getting any younger, you know!

Lee

It's in the instruction sheet, blown up to triple size.

Your guinea pig kit is on its way. Threw in a couple spare parts. I'll email you the instructions for a proof read.

[wm3798]

Giggity!

[wm3798]

@SkipGear  Kits arrived today.  I'll have to brush up on my airbrush skills.  These things are beautiful.  Thanks Tony!

[Philip H]

Hubba!

[SkipGear]

Finally getting around to printing decals tonight. I revised the decals and replaced the pictures above. It never fails, just as I was ready to print, I found my other caboose book which had much more in depth diagrams and history of the schemes. You must be careful using photo's as your only reference. People don't take pictures what's normal, they snap pictures of the anomalies and that was what some of my first guide was unfortunately based on.

[SkipGear]

[peteski]

By following your progress from design to the finished model I know how much was involved in making this  model. It is an excellent scratchbuilt (in CAD) model. I also don't want to sound like I'm critiquing it, but with all those bright reds, greens, and yellows, I can't stop thinking that it looks like something that Bachmann would have made. This is in no way implying that you your modeling is inferior - it just looks so colorful (and I'm sure the 1:1 hacks were just as brightly colored).

[SkipGear]

My cell phone camera probably isn't helping the color balance but these cabooses were very bright when freshly painted. Early cabooses were painted freight car brown but in 1941 they switched to Devils Red for the main body color. The green sashes were held over from the original color scheme for quite a while. I probably need to adjust my decal chart above to show the brown body color on the older schemes.

[peteski]

My cell phone camera probably isn't helping the color balance but these cabooses were very bright when freshly painted. Early cabooses were painted freight car brown but in 1941 they switched to Devils Red for the main body color. The green sashes were held over from the original color scheme for quite a while. I probably need to adjust my decal chart above to show the brown body color on the older schemes.

Tony, thanks for the proto photo. I wasn't disputing your color choices. It's just that the bright in-your-face colors just reminded me of early Bachmann stuff.  It's all good.

[Maletrain]

Tony, thanks for the protp photo. I wasn't disputing your color choices. It's just that the bright in-your-face colors just reminded me of early Bachmann stuff.  It's all good.

That paint job is fine for a museum model.  But, photos of cabooses on the mainline, especially in the steam era, tended to have black soot everywhere.  The roofs were often nearly black, and there were black streaks down the sides. 

That is why we "weather" or models, right?

[wazzou]

That paint job is fine for a museum model.  But, photos of cabooses on the mainline, especially in the steam era, tended to have black soot everywhere.  The roofs were often nearly black, and there were black streaks down the sides. 

That is why we "weather" or models, right?

He literally just finished the damned thing.

[SkipGear]

For those that messaged me about the caboose kits, I should be replying tonight after our Ntrak club Xmas gathering is over with. Should be pretty quick as 3 of our members have turned up on quarantine lists because of relatives with Covid.