Modified and repainted Bachmann box car, turned to an EBT 2nd generation box car.
Here, coupled to my earlier scratchbuilt model of the EBT’s 2nd generation car. While not 100% identical, pretty darned close–close enough to convince me that it’d be easier to modify the B’mann car than to scratchbuild a second car. 
More, including a link to the mods I made can be found here: http://www.mylargescale.com/Community/Forums/tabid/56/forumid/8/postid/23750/view/topic/Default.aspx Later, K
Nice! One looks longer than the other or is that just the camera angle?
Since when does “EASY” enter into the equation for YOU, Kevin? 
Anyway, it does look nice!
Nice work Kevin. Now that’s a bash I could probably finish I just happen to have one of those box cars in a road I’m not to partial to.
Nice work, as usual!
Ken, the scratchbuilt one is about 1 scale foot (15mm) longer than the Bachmann car.
Bruce, “easy” entered into the modeling equation on November 30th, 2005 at around 10am–at least in terms of projects I want to get completed. I remember when I built my combine #18 (before Suzi was born), it took me about 3 months to finish it, and I thought that was an inordinate amount of time. My business car was started about 2 years ago, and my coach #3 was started in January. Neither are anywhere near the finish line. Three months, all of a sudden, sounds like a blink of an eye.
Later,
K
Looks good. Nobody but you would know where it came from if you didn’t tell. I’d sure have a hard time saying which was which if you didn’t tell.
Dave
Kevin,
Both the cars look great. I have two rather basic questions-
Dave, both cars are 1:20.3. The paint on the rear (scratchbuilt) car is Folk-Art “Terra Cotta.” Folk-Art is the rather inexpensive acrylic bottles of paint you can get at Michael’s, Hobby Lobby, etc. Good stuff, thins very easily with water, and smoothes out well. Coverage generally takes about two coats to look even.
The second car was painted with Wal-Mart brand brown primer. I had used this stuff before on some earlier freight cars, and vowed never to use it again. Of course, then I go to Wal-Mart, and they’re out of Krylon brown primer. So, being basically a glutton for punishment, I gave in to my desire to get this project finished, and picked up another can of the Wal-Mart brand stuff.
Five coats later, I’m remembering why I swore never to use that stuff again. The stuff is translucent!!! Leave Wal-Mart, go down the street to Ace Hardware, and buy the brown primer there. The time you spend making that trip will be more than made up having to apply only one coat.
Later,
K
Thanks Kevin. I’ve used the craft paints and have found them very easy to use, particularly when thinned with Windex and blown through an airbrush. I particularly like CeramCoat and have found that it sprays even better than the FolkArt paints. Of course instead of $.50-.75 a bottle the CeramCoat is somewhere around a whopping $1-1.25 a bottle!!
Dave
I’ll have to try the CeramCoat for airbrushing. I spent the better part of the weekend fighting with my airbrush trying to get a dark green to go through evenly. For whatever reason, it didn’t feel like cooperating, so I opted instead for the grotesquely expensive Badger “Model Flex” paint (which–naturally–was a completely different color than what showed on the paint chip, forcing me to mix copious amounts of Folk-Art terra cotta into it to make it resemble the color I actually wanted. UGH!) At least that went on smoothly, but there was so much gunk still stuck in the airbrush from the previous experiments that the darned thing kept clogging. One of these days, I’ll get good at using it, but I suppose that would probably require me using it more than once every three years.
Later,
K
Kevin,
I’ve also used Rustoleum latex (in the small cans) through my airbrush. Again thinned with Windex they spray very well. The color selection is very limited but if you need blue, black, white, etc ,(the basic color wheel wtuff)they’re great. I have a “weathered” black that I mixed up using black, white and blue that has been squirted on all sorts of things.
Dave
Nice touch on the weathering. I like the old and used but not beat to shreds look.