Thursday, April 30, 2020

Another grey SGNSS container wagon - with a flat rack - 2

Now for Part 2 of this wagon story... 
Containers on and ready for detailing.

In the pic below you can see cubes of .020 x .020 styrene in place on one side as twistlocks, and more of them on the green mat below ready to be applied on the other side, affixed with superglue. Also you can see the long strips of .010 x .020 that will be applied along the bottom of the frame, below the twistlocks. This was glued on with a little PVA white glue to get things into place and then some superglue once things started to tack up in place.

Above the bogies, there is a short strip where the tiedown hooks will go.

Now that the sides are done and setting, a few bits were applied to the unders - air tanks and a box of sorts. 



 The tiedown hooks and data panels were liberated from the red curtaintop. They are imprisoned in a small plastic box to prevent them pinging off into the ether:

And carefully applied using the magnifying light - which I have to use a lot more these days since rocking across the big 5-0 hurdle.....

All painted up with grey and yellow dotted on:
The angled brass things (made from .008 brass wire) are the protectors that go across the tiedowns.

And a little touching up and weathering later (brown wash on the sills, brown drybrushed bogies, a little chalk on the container):

Three grey ones:

So that was two hours today and two hours yesterday for a new wagon... not a bad way to spend four hours of Covid-lockdown-time.

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