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.
Logging cabooses - 9
18
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.
MRH-Oct 2014
