At long last, something has rolled out of the doors of the Marlpost Shops - i.e. my train room. 
For those of you that don't know, the past year or so everything was on hold with a move, and then renovations gone badcurse: contractor). During this time, my workshop/trainroom was the storing/staging/hold-all area. Thanks to my lovely wife, a portion of it is usable again, and here is the first project out -
It's a not-entirely-faithful model of an experimental Canadian National Railway refridgerator car. In 1933, two cars were painted with aluminum paint to determine if colour made it easier to keep the contents cold. Presumably, it made no difference, so the cars were painted back to the original (i.e. boxcar red) scheme in 1935.
This model is a four-hatch reefer with metal ends from Athearn (I think - it was an "undec" that had been sitting on the shelf for a while). I have no idea if it is accurate - the CNR one may have been one of their "famous" 8-hatch models. I know the lettering is correct - it's dry transfers from CDS lettering. The "aluminum" paint is actually Dollarama silver, drybrushed over a grey primer coat. The car is relatively clean, since it had all new paint (body, roof, underframe, trucks) in 1933, and so I have modelled it as if it has just rolled out.
Andrew
For those of you that don't know, the past year or so everything was on hold with a move, and then renovations gone bad
curse: contractor). During this time, my workshop/trainroom was the storing/staging/hold-all area. Thanks to my lovely wife, a portion of it is usable again, and here is the first project out - It's a not-entirely-faithful model of an experimental Canadian National Railway refridgerator car. In 1933, two cars were painted with aluminum paint to determine if colour made it easier to keep the contents cold. Presumably, it made no difference, so the cars were painted back to the original (i.e. boxcar red) scheme in 1935.
This model is a four-hatch reefer with metal ends from Athearn (I think - it was an "undec" that had been sitting on the shelf for a while
). I have no idea if it is accurate - the CNR one may have been one of their "famous" 8-hatch models. I know the lettering is correct - it's dry transfers from CDS lettering. The "aluminum" paint is actually Dollarama silver, drybrushed over a grey primer coat. The car is relatively clean, since it had all new paint (body, roof, underframe, trucks) in 1933, and so I have modelled it as if it has just rolled out.Andrew
