Last July, Frank shared a tank car with a misguided paint job. The model can be seen above. He has since corrected the issues and now has another car in service. Here’s what he did to turn a lemon into lemonade.
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Slow Orders
Members of the Resin Car Works family have travel and vacations lined up over the next couple of months so we will be slow to respond to orders. The latest hoppers have sold well and supplies are low until more castings arrive. We thank you for the support and want to let our loyal customers know there will be a slow period here. Please bear with us through these weeks. We will be back up to speed soon with one or two new things ready to reveal.
– Frank Hodina
Two months of kit building
Four resin freight car kits are among the consist of this train on Paul Doggett’s layout.
Paul Doggett has been busy building HO scale freight car models. Since January 1, 2016 he has built a small train; yes, in only two months time. We featured some of Paul’s work before and noticed he has had a busy couple of months. Follow along for more of Paul’s story. Click on any image here to review a larger size.
End sill details
Blog manager Eric Hansmann steps in with some thoughts about details on the end of freight cars.
To snip or not to snip, that is the question. I’ve been installing couplers without trip pins for about a decade. Many modelers notice the missing trip pins and ask why would I do such a thing. In 2005, I realized I was not going to have a layout using magnetic uncoupling and the club layout where much of my equipment was in service also did not use magnetic uncoupling. Building models without trip pins was an easy personal choice. Click on any image here to review a larger size.