Charles Smiley
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This was once a old "post WWII" VARNEY metal kit that some fellow built up many years ago and I bought it for 5 Dollars a few weeks aback at a train swap meet.
It still had good paint on the side graphics that I wanted to preserve. It is all metal but the underframe is molded plastic. So I figure it was a later version of the kit made around 1955 when plastic was encroaching on the manufacturer's material of choice. I added better scale Plano roof walks, scale grab irons and ladders, brake rigging, lift bars and new paint on the roof and ends to match the sides. Testors enamel "Aluminum" airbrushed on was a good match. The sprung trucks got Kadee metal wheels and Kadee whisker couplers. Many of the punched holes had to be filled where the old ladders and grabirons and roofwalk mounting pegs once were. I used foil aluminum cut into tiny pieces. They are hard to notice.
It still had good paint on the side graphics that I wanted to preserve. It is all metal but the underframe is molded plastic. So I figure it was a later version of the kit made around 1955 when plastic was encroaching on the manufacturer's material of choice. I added better scale Plano roof walks, scale grab irons and ladders, brake rigging, lift bars and new paint on the roof and ends to match the sides. Testors enamel "Aluminum" airbrushed on was a good match. The sprung trucks got Kadee metal wheels and Kadee whisker couplers. Many of the punched holes had to be filled where the old ladders and grabirons and roofwalk mounting pegs once were. I used foil aluminum cut into tiny pieces. They are hard to notice.
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