{"id":3882,"date":"2023-11-22T16:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T23:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2023-11-22T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T23:42:46","slug":"frame-upgrades-for-the-scale-craft-boxcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"Frame upgrades for the Scale-Craft boxcar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the shortcomings of the original, cast Scale-Craft boxcar is the frame. Besides the poorly executed brake cylinder, there is no depth to the frame which visually needs to extend a bit lower and be slightly more visible under the car. It\u2019s almost as flat as a pancake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introducing Scale-Craft boxcar frame 2.0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This pair of boxcars had been built with these L&N decals in mind (left over from using other car letterings in the same HO scale Microscale decal set). and needed them to be blue \u2013 a color that came up with completing the Fall River center cab switcher (more on that project soon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the upgraded frame I wanted to do something simple and easily duplicated. I added the 3D printed AB brake details from Jeff\u2019s OO (more here)<\/a>, and a simple frame insert from 1\/8\u201d square strip wood, seen above. It is not prototypical in look from the bottom but I was more concerned about from the side with trucks on, that a bit more frame would \u201cshow\u201d visually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think the look is improved. Of course, on the layout it is still not very visible in normal viewing, but I do like when I get right beside a car that the brake details don\u2019t obviously hang below the center of the frame. As time allows I\u2019ll add this detail to more cars that have upgraded paint\/decals of this type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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