9. Car with the sides painted.
uncoupling lever handles and the side and corner steps. These
were touched up with a brush.
Trucks
Rapido have not yet, at the time of preparing the article,
released their Barber Stabilized S1 trucks as separate items,
but I “borrowed” a pair from a painted but undecorated reefer
I have. These were primed and then painted along with the
underframe. I will use the wheels that came with the truck, but
am waiting for some semi-scale wheels to arrive. These look
much better on detailed resin cars. To paint the wheels I use
Floquil Paint Pens [16] that give good coverage and are easier
to use than a brush.
I leave the wheels out of the truck and paint the faces with
Weathered Black. In my era, the cars had solid bearings as
opposed to roller bearings and the journal boxes were loaded
with waste covered in grease. This migrated to the wheel face.
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