So, summer is ending, and with my time for spray painting (since I need to do that outside). Thus, I dug out my dozen accumulated kits of Life-Like Proto2k Stock Car kits. Which I've been putting off for some time, since they've got lots o tiny details to work with.
Anyway, I finally tackled the whole bunch, and have been working thru adding grab irons and other extremely tiny plastic details. Here's some photos of that work:
What I want here, I guess, is a caricature - something that feels like the prototype, w/o trying to copy it exactly. So here's what the RGS cars looked like:
What stands out to me is the boards on the outside of the bracing, and that most of the letter is on these outer boards.
In fact, with these old RGS cars, in some cases that's MOST of the lettering. Details about weight, bearing repacking, etc is so faded its nearly invisible.
D&RGW stock cars were similar, although the pattern of the outer boards is different, and the lettering and detail specs etc are far better maintained:
OK, so here's what the kit looks like (for now):
My thought was to add the outer boards, repaint and then re-letter. I'll probably build a number of RGS as well as D&RGW versions. Not sure when I'll finish, but I'll post here when they're further along.
And, if you'd like more details on the rail Rio Grande Southern stock cars, there's details and photos on my Rolling Stock page here:
http://rgsrr.home.comcast.net/~rgsrr/rgs/stock.html#stock
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