The instructions and prototype photos for the recent Resin Car Works Mini-Kit 4.01 and 4.02 have been posted on the kit Extras page. We thank you for your patience as these files came together. This latest Mini-Kit has been very popular and the Resin Car Works minions appreciate your support.
Continue reading Kit instructions and an update
I first met Ryan Tamburrino on Facebook as he asked me a weathering question. The discussion moved to B&O box cars and then he mentioned printing his own. In O scale. Here’s Ryan with some of the details.
It all started in May 2022, when, after a few discussions with George Podas about creating 3D printed Baltimore & Ohio prototype truck sideframes. He nicely nudged me multiple times to consider designing a B&O M-27F boxcar in O scale.
Continue reading 3D printing an O scale box car
Blog contributor Charlie Duckworth added a number of fine freight car models to his HO scale fleet this past summer. He started posting progress details to the ResinFreightCarBuilders discussion list on Groups.io in early July. Here are a few of Charlie’s posts.
Wondering what the group is working on? Too hot in Omaha to do much other than hang out in a cool basement.
Continue reading Fleet building summer
Resin Car Works has issued a mini-kit for AT&SF Fe-22/23 class, 50-foot, rebuilt automobile box cars. The parts can be used to transform a plastic LifeLike/Walthers Proto 2000 50-foot automobile box car with end doors to reflect the Santa Fe prototypes.
Continue reading New RCW mini-kit