Good morning on this Friday. Some work to be done
Back to the weathering bench today SORT OF!
After working on 3 dozen very white reefer cars itās time to switch gears as I wait for supplies to show up before I can continue down the reefer track. I am about 40% on the first set of 36 reefers.
I am out of Vallejo Air burnt umber, various Vallejo whites, the 3 paints I mix for my desert dust and I have 1 bottle of Tamiya xf86 flat clear left. Totally a screw up on my end.
1. I wasnāt supposed to be in Wisconsin in February but re-wrecking my knee ended my vacation after 11 days. So, I am about 10 days ahead of the reefer weathering scheduleā¦
2. 82ā reefers use many more supplies then the 50ā and 60ā cars I am used to weathering
3. My usual dealers are out of the supplies and they back ordered everything.
4. Amazon is much higher priced but when I decided to bite the bullet and buy anyway, the major item (Tamiya flat clear) wasnāt available in the amounts I wanted and they are backordered
So, I pullEd out some of my own cars. Inspected and items noted to be done. Today I will add the safety stripes.
I pulled cars off the shelf to be worked on today. Stripes first and the 4 cars not already weathered will be clear coated with my last bottle of Tamiya flat clear. These are all cars distributed from HomeshopsLlc and are available at Homeshops.net
16 cars with 15 getting stripes added. I know the safety stripe mandate was issued for 2005. I am saying these all qualify after the brakes were re-done or an ownership change. There are 4 cars that have no weathering at all and that will change over the next 4-6 days. A few of these cars will be re-done
enjoy your day