Dan,
Are you planning to put the cover in it?
No Devon, I find the open loads far more interesting. 
After a couple of coats of Krylon Fusion Metallic Dark Metal the rolls are pretty rigid. I wet sanded them smooth and added custom water-slide decals to the car and coil loads as well as “banding” from cutting strips of black vinyl with the Cricut.
Lastly, Coffee stir sticks for the wooden trough liner.
I’M DONE!
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Very realistic rolls, Dan. The car looks great.
Beautiful build Dan. I’m impressed what you’re able to accomplish with a rattle paint can.
That came out great Dan. I always have found those cars to be interesting. Glad to see one modeled.
That’s a very cool car Dan. Nicely done.
Cheers
N
The car came out great. I have a prototype question. The coil layout on this car seems very logical, where the trains momentum doesn’t work with the round coil to stress the restraints. I see lots of coil cars with the load turned 90 degrees where the opposite would be true. Besides what I mentioned, what is the reasoning behind the design of those car Vs the others?
Great work Dan. The rolls really add to the realism.
I assume you mean coils loaded in this manner?
I’m not sure but I believe it may have to do with the type of equipment available. Those can be loaded/unloaded from the side with a forklift vs an overhead crane.
Good answer. Probably why they travel in that orientation on flat bed trucks. I’ve seen some nasty video of the chains breaking during a wreck and the coils flattening the semi cab 
In the Sheet Metal Shop years ago we had a “Coil Line” system that fed into the power shear. The coils we used were of course much smaller, just 4 foot wide and ran about 5500 to 6000 pounds.
To use them on the coil line they had a sleeve that inserted into each end with a shaft through the center that mounted in roller bearings on the frame. If that coil did not have a perfectly round center we had major problems trying to get them mounted and set in place.
After watching Dan’s video I have to wonder just how they would un-role those coils because sure as hell a fall like that would egg shape them.
In fact in going back and watching again you can see the out of round as that coil rolls away from the tire landing pad.
I’m thinking any backwoods operation that is unloading trucks in that manner isn’t using any fancy un rolling system. TikTok - Make Your Day
the “unloading” video reminds me, of unloading diesel-fuel barrels. (200 lts./50 gallons)
directly behind the pick-up or trailer two tires, on the side away from the trailer one more tire.
rolling the barrel slowly over the edge, it falls on the two tires, rebounds and falls on the single tire, from where it rolls to the ground, without bursting or bending.
the hardest part is before, to lay the standing barrels on their side, without hitting a foot.
Came across this today.
