I Don't Hold A Candle To Brother Love...

Alan,

Don't say that, it looks great! If you are going to letter it like the prototype pic you posted, I have the decals. It is a set I used the "Southern Pacific" out of but the "SP" marking are still there.

 

Let me know, they are yours if you wan t them.

Great modeling, Malcolm

Great, rendition, Alan.

Ralph

Looks great to me!!!! Just seeing folks BUILD things is great!!

Nice work

Thanks, Malcolm

Please let me know how to get payment to you. My e-mail is :  

 

Eauchiche@gmail.com

 

Thanks again!

Looks good to me.   Just needs the side grabs added and a stack. 

Me too. And look at that pickle car!

 

Brother's cars are the definitive plastic cars, but the satisfaction of building your own will surely beat a $300 off-the-shelf car any day.  I have lots of both types- imported brass and dirt bag - and I seem to wind up favoring the dirtbag stuff.  If I ever sell out, the imported brass goes first.

 

C30 is my favorite caboose - I actually rode in one from Fairbank to Elgin behind steam.

Alan, there you go... a compliment and praise from Malcolm. And I agree with him, don't say that. Looks like you did a good job!

 

Hey, we all have different skill levels - which of course can improve with practice. Brother Jim does some fabulous work. But I'm not going to compare myself to him for one reason... I'm a semi-scale/027 guy and so my projects reflect the "suggested" detail level of other engines and rolling stock.

 

As beautiful as Malcolm's scratch-built caboose projects are, they would stand-out like a sore thumb. (Or if you're a scale guy, the 027 traditional stuff I run would be the sore thumb! )

 

Either way, with all the grumbling that goes on around here about "why don't they make this, etc. etc. etc.?" it's great to see folks approaching this hobby like what it really is: a hobby.

 

AMCDave too, great work and a nod for sharing here so much of what he has learned about repainting. Any one with questions need only search out some of his many threads on the topic.

 

I'm sure all you guys love the comments you get when someone asks "where did you get that piece?" or "I never saw that cataloged... did Lionel make that?" and you can smile and tell them you made it yourself.

 

I learned a very long time ago if I was going to wait for the train makers to make products in the roads I wanted, I'd still be waiting to this very day. I'd rather kitbash and repaint and scratchbuild than wait. And therefore I actually enjoy the hobby and am happy with all that does actually get made.

 

Great thread!

That looks very good...  Keep on building.

That's a good looking caboose!

 

The more Scratchbuilding you do the better your skills get, and I'm sure people do their best work when they stay in practice.

 

As far as Malcolm goes, remember that

a. He's a very skilled guy, and

b. He's very experienced...just look at the number of projects he's completed over the last few years.

 

My grandma made great pies, but my memories are undoubtably influenced by the fact that my grandma had probably made 20,000 pies by the time I ate my first slice. Grandma's first pie might not have been quite as good

 

Jeff C

Looks great,  cant wait to see the finished product. If I may ask, What went into the build?

What cabooses? I want a piece of pie!!! Coconut cream is my favorite.

You're about thirty years late to experience one of my grandmother's pies, but it can assure you that they were quite special....

 

Jeff C

 

 

I used Evergreen styrene car siding, Grandt Line castings for the windows and doors. I had to build a couple of windows from scratch that are a strange shape. Cutting out the holes for the windows takes all the time.

Thank you folks for all your kind words, especially Malcolm. Comparing my caboose to his fine art is like comparing a harmonica band to the New York Philharmonic!

Alan,

I have  not forgot your decals, I will mail them Monday. Malcolm

There are some great harmonica players out there! Looks good.

don

I support all the above compliments and remarks about something YOU built.  Good

job!  My grandmother made blackberry cobblers, after having us out in the thorny

patch on a hot, humid day picking them.  I miss those, and my mother's bulletproof

fudge, full of hand cracked walnuts, which was nothing like the squshy, soft fudge you see, but I never buy,  in assorted tourist traps.

I got Malcolm's decals in place. I have a little touch-up work to do...