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9: This car started out as an Athearn Genesis PCF double plug
door insulated boxcar in Cotton Belt livery. Gary tells the story:
"I had been introduced to a prototype flick that was captured
by Butch Eyler of this very same car. I decided to keep with the
theme of reproducing a series of freight cars that were hit with
graffiti by Ichabod, with a woman's portrait as the focal point."
"I soaked the car in a mild citrus solvent to strip the factory
Athearn paint and Cotton Belt lettering. I then shot the car with
an enamel paint called periwinkle blue. From there ... I set the
car with Golden West Service decals from the Microscale sheet
8: This model is an eye catcher. Starting with an Atlas 47-foot
ACF Centerflow, Gary used the side of the car like a canvas
to replicate by hand the famous Ichabod graffiti, girl and all.
Before the graffiti the car received 5 layers of a mocha brown
acrylic paint. The car was then sealed with Dullcote before
the acrylic graffiti was applied. Gary spent 20 hours hand-
painting this car.
Scale couplers from Sergent, Hi-Tech air hoses, and hand bent
coupler lift bars and linkage complete the details on this car.
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of GWS freight cars. I then misted the car with Dullcote, and
being that the prototype car was relatively new, there wasn't
needed much in the way of weathering. The entire ICH tag and
portrait of the unknown woman ... was all hand painted freehand
... pretty much a close match to the prototype."
"I constructed a diorama to present this model. I wanted to
address a scene behind a warehouse with a reflective puddle of
water that would display the model in the foreground in reverse.
Thought it might be an interesting effect. I used a sheet of
masked Plexiglass imbedded into the press board base to rep-
resent the water. I then added all the scenery around to incorpo-
rate the standing water puddle into the fixed scene."
"All in all ... this wasn't a very time-consuming project in creating
the diorama scene. The model
absorbed approximately 20
hours (in segmented sessions)
to complete."
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