Roof filler
Next I filled in the roof opening, once occupied with a cupola,
using two chunks of .020” Evergreen styrene [17]. This could
have been done with scribed styrene because the scribing may
have come through the tar paper roof material and resem-
bled the wood used by the shop crew to patch the hole, but I
thought of that after the smooth material was in place.
It’s easy to line up the patches with the roof surface by assem-
bling the parts top-down on a work surface. At that point
it’s convenient to add the scrap styrene underside bracing to
ensure the patches stay in place.
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18. The original weathering wash for #2 was too heavy
so it was covered with a wash of the Boxcar Red body
paint to tone it down. The rest of the caboose is about
ready for the flat finish.
Paint and finish
As mentioned earlier I painted the caboose body, underframe
and trucks with PollyScale Boxcar Red #414281. The roof
needed only its underside at the end overhangs and outer
edges done, as the top was covered with the tar paper. The
roof was done using the same techniques described earlier for
caboose #2. Also, the access step was built just like the similar
piece on caboose #2, discussed earlier.
Because of the view through the side door, I added a wood
floor to the cargo area [18]. It’s made from 1x12 scale strip-
wood stained with the mix of India ink and alcohol and secured
with medium-viscosity ACC. I didn’t mess with decorating the
walls, but added a few small detail items [19] inside to provide
a more interesting view when looking in past the seated figure
in the doorway. The metal plate at left in the photo is a piece
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19. The left side of #3 is ready for the flat finish. The
window glazing was added after the Dullcote to avoid
hazing the windows with the finish.
MRH-Oct 2014
