The Resin Car Works minions are kicking off the New Year with a new HO scale kit! The Missouri Pacific added 350 new AC&F-built steel box cars in 1942. Cars were lettered for the MP as well as subsidiaries I-GN and StLB&M.
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Here we are rounding out another year. The Resin Car Works minions thank you for your support and encouragement. May you and your families find peace and joy this holiday season. We are looking forward to the upcoming year with exciting kit releases, blog posts, and RPM events.
As a reminder, Resin Car Works will be shut down until the second week of January. Please be patient if you have sent an order. We will catch up when we restart operations after our holiday break.
In other news, RCW web guy Eric Hansmann is on the move again. I plan to complete a move to metro Philadelphia within the next couple of months. My wife and I are excited for this new adventure! We soon hope to find a basement that includes suitable above ground living quarters.
If all goes according to plan, Frank is retiring in mid-February to spend more time in Florida, create new freight car patterns. and live life. To keep your RCW interest elevated, this will be our first kit issued in the New Year.
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.
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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