We hope everyone is enjoying their summer. It’s usually a time when home and family nudge modeling aside for many of us. The Resin Car Works crew thought you could use an update on our current kits and a sneak peek at some upcoming ones.
Lester Breuer has been busy building more freight cars. He shares his latest work for today’s blog post.
For my unbuilt Sunshine Models kits inventory to someday reach zero, I need to continue to have fun building. Therefore, I pulled this Milwaukee Road single-sheathed box car (Kit 47.3), series 711000 to 711999, for building. The prototype information and photos of this car are in the Prototype Data Sheet #47A provided in the kit which contains the only good photo of the “B” end I could find. Additional prototype images were found in the Steam Era Freight Cars Reference Manual, Vol. 1 (pages 70 and 71), and several color photos are in the Milwaukee Road Color Guide, Vol. 2 (page 7). A diagram of the car is in The Milwaukee Road Freight Cars – Official Employees’ Shop Diagrams for 1937 book (page 16).
Peter Hall has been busy on a few projects. He sent the following details on his latest freight car build. Click on any image here to review a larger size.
I recently had an opportunity to build one of these fine HO scale models from Speedwitch Media. The mold work for the castings is beautiful and well-detailed, and the kit goes together very nicely.
Continue reading Building a Speedwitch Media SP A-50-4 Automobile Box Car