I'm in love with paper. Considering the success I've had with structures like the shifty shed, it is baffling that I did not turn to it for rolling stock sooner. A gap in the imagination that has been resoundingly filled.
The results so far include 4 box car bodies, the two Klyzlr boxes, and a couple testing the Photoshop template. The car is based on a boxcar from
Slim Gauge Cars. I like the chunky proportion, and working so closely to plan makes me realize that the salt wagons are in fact a bit narrow.
In drawing the cars I created two extra layers, one was a registration line, the other was a text guide. Those lines and guides are in each file. By taping a piece of cheap chip board to the stage and cutting the registration line I was able to create a fixed template. The printed board was slipped under the template, and lined up. This ensured registration.
Each box consists of two cut sheets, a detail sheet and a body sheet.
Rather than print on white card I printed the bodies on acid free paper and mounted them to black card. This saved me from having to marker edges of the board later.
I added color to the bodies using acrylic washes, and straight acrylics. The grab irons are staples left over from my broken staple pliers--might as well use them. Bottom door guides are wires. The shot above shows the end prior to having the transom attached.
Today's task, if I can make the time, is to get the uncoupler guts configured. I also have some work to do on some other designs. I am going to spend some time considering a way to do a two sided registration such that I could make a paper gondola.
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