Here are the undecorated Intermountain cars I assembled, painted and lettered for MP. I don’t know whose trucks I used; I tossed out the Intermountain trucks that came with the kits. Their old equalizing truck wasn’t bad, but the once piece truck that replaced it is awful.
I’m not a fan of Tru-Color paint having had some bad experiences painting other models, so I used a ScaleTrains Airslide hopper as a reference to mix the color using Model Master enamels since it was matched to the correct color (I learned that here in another thread). I used Microscale MC-4272 decals to letter the cars. Solvaset got a few of the labels so I’ll have to get another set to fill in and replace the missing and distorted decals:
https://pbase.com/mecrharris/image/171736882
https://pbase.com/mecrharris/image/171736883
As far as I can tell, this series of cars is a decent match for the Intermountain model. I have loads of the Athearn cars which should be a minority relative to these cars, so as I find more of these undecorated kits for cheap I’ll probably build some more.
I could really use one of these cars, but I don’t know enough about the prototype to know what to start with:
