here's the most recent car i completed... this only took me around 2.5 years to finish since my personal life kinda got in the way of my model trains... lol...
any comments or questions are welcome...
jeremy
lol... thanks rico...
fishplate, there were some other little tags as well on the two cars i used for the weathering of this car but i couldn't really make out what they said so i left em off... had to keep the smiley face though!
jeremy
OK, you want some criticism? All that work on the brake rigging was a waste of time. It's hanging way too low and would be bad-ordered at the first RIP track. The weathering on the trucks looks awful. It looks like you just painted the whole thing with some rusty color and the springs look exactly the same as the rest of the truck. The springs would at least have more rust than the rest of the trucks. The stirrup steps are crooked and don't match the real car. The door locking latches are almost completely clean and should have accumulated at least as much rust as the rest of the car. There certainly should be some rust from scraping at the door latches. I could go on but now you see what the rest of us get at MTW if we showed the same type of car.
You're brake rigging is a little too low? There's no railroad in the country that allow a car with brake rigging a few inches above grade crossing level to run. You'd better take a look at the prototype again. There tons of rust streaks around the door latches and door hinges, all of which you failed to model. OTOH, the prototype clearly shows the GT slogan is still clearly visible but you obliterated most of it, apparently even putting the tack board in the wrong place.
You can clearly see some color variation in the truck photo you posted. I have no idea where that picture came from but you can see the bearing covers are still black, something you missed. As for trucks, how about this AMC boxcar:
Do the trucks all look the same to color to you?
I could go on but it's pointless. None of use will ever get things exactly right. At MTW, you'd better be with 99% of right or expect to get a pasting
If you had simply posted this picture here, I'd say close enough and good work. At MTW, which you so vigorously defend, your picture would have been torn up until you felt like you had no idea what you were doing. Feel good? That's what newbies feel like when they get comments from smart asses like you