Wheeler's Trains

[Rico]

I’ve never heard of these, are they pad printed or decaled?
Looks good either way!

 

[wheeler1963]

I’ve never heard of these, are they pad printed or decaled?
Looks good either way!

Pad printed.

 

[wheeler1963]

I got the black repainted on the Palace Cars today. Super glossy, but that's what the customer asked for.

 

[Espeefan]

I got the black repainted on the Palace Cars today. Super glossy, but that's what the customer asked for.

Been there, done that. The customer is NOT always right. He is, however, our only source of cash.

 

[kjd]

I used to work for a guy who would say in his thick Latvian accent, "The clients are idiots, we will tell them what they want." He was usually right but had decades of experience and knew how to interpret what they were saying.

 

[wheeler1963]

A couple projects moving forward today.

The Palace Cars got their windows installed and the undersides completed. Still need to repaint the Observation Cars end railings, they came in a yellow plastic. A note on these cars, they came without any doors in the kits.

Also finished the decals on this NASA boxcar.

 

[Rico]

Hey, not to hijack your topic but I received the two depressed flats yesterday.
I only did one up, very easy kits and well weighted! My paint selection sucks so I did this one in depot olive, still needs some touch ups.
Still looking for my data decal sheets but here she is so far…

 

[wheeler1963]

It looks pretty good to me. I love those kits. Can't beat them for the price either.

 

[Espeefan]

A couple projects moving forward today.

The Palace Cars got their windows installed and the undersides completed. Still need to repaint the Observation Cars end railings, they came in a yellow plastic. A note on these cars, they came without any doors in the kits.

Also finished the decals on this NASA boxcar.

I’ve never built these , but I have built other MDC kits. They all had walls between the vestibule and the car interior. I don’t remember any separate doors.

 

[wheeler1963]

I guess they were meant to have diaphragm installed .

 

[wheeler1963]

Got the platform railings painted and installed. We'll call these done.

 

[wheeler1963]

We've got a train show this weekend in New Bern, NC, then a road trip to Illinois for a visit with the family and a show in Wheaton Illinois.

That's one way to spend my birthday!!

This will be my next project for a customer when I get back.

 

[Espeefan]

Got the platform railings painted and installed. We'll call these done.

Looks good! One thing I looked at with my MDC baggage cars was re-doing the bolsters. If you look over on my passenger car modeling thread, page 2 shows the MDC baggage car compared to the brass car which is correctly dimensioned. MDC moved the bolsters in to accommodate 18" radii. It works, but detracts from the appearance of the model (IMHO) . Those palace cars would look better with the bolsters relocated, but the owner's layout may not permit it. I'm tempted to try this with one of my baggage cars. Thing is I have so many that it could turn into a rabbit hole project!

 

[wheeler1963]

Very good tip. But I am only allowed to do what the customer wants. I'm not sure what his curves are.

 

[wheeler1963]

Got some time in the weathering shop today. Hopefully it'll all be dry by time we get back from Illinois.

 

[wheeler1963]

Well we drove up to Illinois to visit family and worked 2 tables at The Great Midwestern Train Show in Wheaton Illinois today. We had a great show. The people up here really appreciated what we do, it was a one day/6 hour show so it went by fast.

My wife then took me out for a birthday dinner. Had a great steak dinner. So all in all, it was a great day!!!

 

[TheXModelRailroader]

Well we drove up to Illinois to visit family and worked 2 tables at The Great Midwestern Train Show in Wheaton Illinois today. We had a great show. The people up here really appreciated what we do, it was a one day/6 hour show so it went by fast.

My wife then took me out for a birthday dinner. Had a great steak dinner. So all in all, it was a great day!!!

Happy late birthday!

 

[wheeler1963]

Happy late birthday!

Thank you

 

[Espeefan]

Well we drove up to Illinois to visit family and worked 2 tables at The Great Midwestern Train Show in Wheaton Illinois today. We had a great show. The people up here really appreciated what we do, it was a one day/6 hour show so it went by fast.

My wife then took me out for a birthday dinner. Had a great steak dinner. So all in all, it was a great day!!!

You aren’t that far away from me then. I used to do the Wheaton show. Selling stuff out of the basement. We used to say “From my basement to yours!” I also did weathering and sold Iwata airbrushes there. I haven’t been there in years. It was a decent show but a lot of work!

 

[wheeler1963]

You aren’t that far away from me then. I used to do the Wheaton show. Selling stuff out of the basement. We used to say “From my basement to yours!” I also did weathering and sold Iwata airbrushes there. I haven’t been there in years. It was a decent show but a lot of work!

We stay at the wife's mom's out in Yorkville, or out in the sticks as I call it. The show was a lot of fun. Being on the other side of the table is more fun I think.