HO Harriman roof

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Unfortunately no. I have scrounged them from old Roundhouse 60 footers and spliced them together, or you can watch the Walthers website. Sometimes those IC cars with the arch roof are on special, then you can cannibalize them for parts. Walthers used to make a wood one and give you guides to sand in the contour. Not much for rivet detail though! If you find a source, let me know!
 
Thanks for your input. Modeling S.P. 1920-30s does have its drawbacks but I love that era.

SP in the Central Valley.

John
 


Thanks Charles, but those are clerestory roofs, and not really correct for the SP. Con-Cor does a model and paints it for everything. Not that there is anything wrong with stand ins...I still use a few myself... but I think John wants something prototypically correct. Unfortunately, for now, his choices are limited to scratching, kitbashing, and brass.

Southern Car & Foundry does a few resin kits of baggage & headend cars, and Precision Scale did some nice Harrimans appropriate for the 1920's & 30's. Expensive, but accurate.
 
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QUOTE: "Thanks Charles, but those are clerestory roofs"

Alan,

You're right. THe pictures at the bottom are so bloody dark they decieve the eye a bit. I hate it when companies use CAD renderings for new product introduction. It suggests they are not even close.:(
 
Yeah, and this problem is even worse if you like to sit with your laptop and do this instead of at a desktop with a brighter monitor. Things are just naturally darker and details fade together!
 
Rapido makes some fantastic models. Possibly the best in the business.

But a few years ago they had full page color ads in MR showing CAD renderings bragging about the detail they have. They were full of polygon-artifacts and "jaggies".

I kept wondering what marketing dept. person would waste an expensive ad with that form of presentation. It's almost worse than model makers that would show prototype photos in advance of the products.

The problem is that most of these CAD guys don't realize that how stuff looks on a PC screen has little bearing how it will look in print. PC screens generate light in RGB format. Printed items reflect light that is created in CMYK format. Never the 'twain shall meet'.


Some of the electronic products I designed were in company catalogs using CAD renderings that looked better than actual photos. The textures and shading were perfect and you had to look very carefully to know if it was real or rendered. But my CAD guy had very high skill levels. He did some spaceship stuff used by the movie industry too. So it is possible to do it right. But that skill level doesn't seem to pervade the MRR industry.
 
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