John,
I have used Cal Scale's brass passenger pilots on my Stewart/Kato F-3's
(both freight & passenger) for years now. They are quite easy to install and
look great. I found that using Scalecoat's paint called Graphite & Oil for
the Silver- that it matches perfectly with the Stewart/Kato Silver and I
assume that Stewart used the same formula for the latest release of
passenger F-3's.
John Olson
Billings, Mt.
> From: railbass@a...
> Reply-To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 03:50:14 +0000
> To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Budd car skirting
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> Jack -
> I have not accomplished this yet, but I am modeling the California Zephyr in
> HO with Con-Cor models. I have 16 kits mostly bought at swap meets or train
> shows for bargain prices, including one Amtrak set I bought at Caboose Hobbies
> junk sale a couple of years ago. I plan to use the cars which fit the CZ
> types and then use duplex sleepers, slumbercoaches, and extra baggage cars to
> make the skirting, using the skirting and parts of the roof. If you look
> around at train shows, you can often find earlier Con-Cor kits for a low
> price, and you can sometimes find unpopular road name kits (like Amtrak) at
> your local hobby shop or one of the internet mail-order houses for a clearance
> price.
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> Con-Cor's diner does not have the correct window and door spacing for the CZ,
> but Brass Car Sides makes sides for the NP North Coast Ltd Budd full diner
> which have the correct spacing. You attach them to a Rivarossi car, attach
> Union Station Products corrugated siding, and use a Con-Cor roof to complete
> the CZ diner.
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> I also have Stewart's F3 A-B-A Phase II set without dynamic brakes and painted
> in CB&Q's passenger colors. The only problem with this set is that the A
> units do not have passenger pilots, which all Q F3, F7 and F9 A units did. I
> am replacing the pilots with those from the Highliner A unit kit. I am hoping
> that BRHS may help us get Athearn or Highliner to sell the passenger pilots
> separately, as most of us cannot afford to spend $50 to equip our Q F units
> with passenger pilots. I am using the Highliner kits to make F2As, which had
> the EMD standard pilot.
> - John Manion
> Denver, CO
>> An afterthought here....can anyone supply info on how to easily make
>> and attach skirting on Con-Cor Budd cars so as to create the look of
>> Zephyr skirting?
>> Jack in Vancouver
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