A few Mopac freight cars just finished

[peggyrothschild]

Now that the Missouri-Illinois book is finished I have time to finish a few resin kits that were in the works. The 45’ and 50’ flatcars are resin kits from Chad Boas. Ed Hawkins and I worked on the decal set and Hubert Mask made them up. These are in the company store. I didn’t add the brake staff yet as I knew it would get knocked off during painting and decaling.

The two 45’ gondolas are from F&C and are one piece bodies. These to are decaled with a new decal set from Hubert based on prototype photos.
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[bargetanika]

How did you weather the flatcar boards?

I thought you weren’t modeling this period any more.

Looks like intermountain is thinking about MP FT units again. Any scoop on that?

[peggyrothschild]

The individual boards were painted with washes of various grays, browns, etc. Then picked out a few with colored pencil. I haven’t completely given up on the 1950’s.

Intermountain didn’t get enough reservations to do the FTs last time so they dropped the project. I hadn’t heard of any efforts to resurrect these.

[bargetanika]

I did a few grey wood flatcar decks with just the colored art pencils. They look a lot better than before (and needed no brush cleanup) but don’t have the depth the washes give.

The art pencil weathering is a great tip I learned from you several years ago.

[bargetanika]

https://www.intermountain-railway.com/ho/images/49225wl.jpg

They are listed as “needing reservations.”

I think someone at intermountain told me they need 90 reservations to break even producing a given boxcar scheme. I don’t know if it’s the same for locomotives, but really, I can’t imagine interest worldwide in 90 MP FT unit sets, as much as I want them.

They did run the original grey and yellow Cotton Belt scheme years ago. Beautiful. Apparently a bad decision for intermountain. They were the last ones in remaining stock. I got an ABBA set for near half price. Got em to run on a now gone club that closed down before I ever had a chance to run them. They are still unopened.

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