{"id":4016,"date":"2024-10-13T15:26:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T22:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2024-10-13T15:26:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T22:26:39","slug":"scale-craft-boxcars-for-the-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=4016","title":{"rendered":"Scale-Craft boxcars for the UP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been working slowly on a number of things over the summer. Besides limited time, a big bottleneck has been limited time to use my garage shop specifically. But I did finally finish (or nearly finish) this nice boxcar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backing up a step, finding decals to use is a challenge. I did have a good “score” at a couple local shows recently and purchased a number of sets of vintage (but not that old really) Champion sets, especially a group of their UP boxcar sets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo below shows (sort of) my decal “station” (inside a low box, with a water bowl on the left) and how I set things up. I like to have a prototype photo right there to follow if possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Comparing the prototype photo and the car, even though the set is HO, it fits the car pretty well. I used Microscale products to help the decals settle into place fully, poking the “bubbles” (in the rivet areas) a number of times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also you can see that the car is not done yet, I plan to add proper brake details and rework the trucks and couplers sometime soon. Will likely apply weathering, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other thing that inspired me to use the UP decals is I have a vintage car that has decals on it that are more undersized. See especially the right hand side. I think this particular HO Champ set worked pretty well, and happily I have sets to do several more of these. Including probably the vintage car seen below, it deserves fresh paint and a new set of decals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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