Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
This photo was taken a week ago! Time flies these days. I’ve been sick, and I’ve also been trying to finish up a pinhole camera that I am making. Meanwhile, I work a little on my next train model. The RhB has a number of these passenger lounge cars (Salonwagen) and a baggage car to match. I keep wondering if it would be useful to make the baggage car first. I’m also trying to figure out how the passenger loungecars are made - the windows in the sides are not all flush in the same plane as the side - the windows have three parts - the big center part is flush, but the two side pieces are at an angle. So I’ve been sketching how they go, so I can think about how best to make them. I’m thinking I may make some study models to help out.
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Well, that was a longer break than I had planned on taking. I finished the historic subway car, and it is on display at the Flux Factory in Long Island City. I will do a photo shoot of it once it returns back home. I have not yet finished that boxcar, but I just don’t feel like finishing it now. I do, however, feel like starting my next car - the RhB’s Pullman passenger cars. I learned a lot about modeling passenger cars when making that historic subway car, and a lot of that new knowledge will help me out with this car.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The car is essentially complete, but I am going to spend the next few days adding some details to it that should give it a more realistic look. I’m planning to add wheel journals, various underside pieces, lights on top, and a roof detail. The model also needs some touch-up paint here and there. The vertical poles at the ends of the car need trimming underneath. I drilled the holes through the underside to hold them in place. And I am trying to push them into the roof piece a little so that they will stay put. They need to be glued and touch-up painted. I’m contemplating trying to add a little of the railing using a method similar to how I made the ladder for the cement silo. We shall see.
The window mullions seem to be staying put despite them being wood glued to plastic with carpenter wood glue. The addition of the Liquitex matte medium and paint at the bootom of the mullions - to glue wood to wood - is working well. One mullion popped loose, but stayed nearly in place. So I added the Liquitex matte medium and paint to the top of the mullions - gluing wood to wood - and hopefully that will solve that problem. The roof glued down nicely. I glued the top of the wood trim to the underside of the wood roof and that has good strength to hold the sides straight without allowing them to bulge out.
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
In the photo above, you can see the short end walls under construction. I made them the same way as the long side walls. These walls have more wall and less window, thus they seem to be less fragile than the long walls. Below is a picture with the end walls glued in place and the roof resting on top. The roof is not glued yet. I need to add some pieces to the corners to round them out and make them look smooth.
