I have like 4 of these that my dad gave me. To add some interest I’m converting this one to a Colorado and Northwestern boxcar that ran up Boulder canyon with a clover house dry transfer set. The scale of these is fairly indeterminate. They sure are small. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Dry transfers this big on a surface this rough is a challenge. I tried using a hair dryer on the white circle. I think it helped but I still had to press extremely hard with a steel burnisher to get it to release. I used a white paint pen to touch up gaps. Any advice from anyone? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
No advice on dry transfers from here. I never quite mastered them in N or HO. Or in fact even waterslide decals....
Attempting to make the herald on the car look like the prototype. It would take 5 layers to reproduce the prototype so I understand why clover house simplified it to 3. I attempted to reproduce the red semicircles with red marker with kind of mixed results. I’ve peeled the dry transfers off just by looking at them for too long. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Dullcote dissolved the dry transfers and caused the red ink to bleed. I did my best to save this side, might look ok at normal viewing distance. I had hoped dullcote between layers of dry transfers would prevent lifting but… I’d love to find an acrylic flat spray that worked well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Even though the proportions of this car are wrong for the prototype I think I can make it look a bit more like the real thing by updating the door tracks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I think you have done a great job! I have not mastered dry transfers either. I bit of weathering will make it look even better.
Thanks. None of my g-scale/1 gauge is weathered. A fair amount of it is tinplate, lots of it antique that I don’t intend to ever weather. So not sure. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk