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Keep up with the good work and keep the photos coming,
I'm watching the progress with great interest.
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Daniel Osvaldo Caso wrote: Well, if you would spend any energy on reaching anyone else's 'mastery' you would have spoiled your chance: developing your own!!!
The only true mastery is not about technics or results but about being true and investing your joy of living in whatever you do.
That is: following your own star.
Yes, the sides of the wagon looked a bit bald and your solution is just perfect.
Would be an option to make small holes and insert pins so their heads suggest bolts?
Even easier, you can also insert pieces of thin styrene rods,
but the cheapest way may be inserting the points of wooden toothpicks,
and once the PVA glue has really dried cut them almost flush.
If they are protruding too much you can easilly sand them with a narrow strip of sandpaper glued to a stripwood.
That way you can sand all the rivets of one post at once.
Another tip that costs nothing but improves the look:
with a sharp blade, making at regular spacing slight vertical incisions simulating the joints of the floor boards at the outer ends.
It would look as the one caused by adding a strip of wood to make the floor reach the right end at last photo.
Just my two cents.
Daniel
Some of your ideas have been in my head already.
But you are helping me understand HOW to do them.
Thank You.
I will wait.
I need more train cars because I really like PLAYING with trains.
Next up will be the Tank Car conversion to some kind of water car.
I have already cut off the excess detail,
all it needs is some wood to lower and widen the look.
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2foot6 wrote: Keep up with the good work and keep the photos coming,
I'm watching the progress with great interest.
........Peter
Thanks Peter, do you have a layout thread on here?
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Nice that it was of some help.
Daniel
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The car is getting really beautiful.
The brake wheel is a beauty but, poor fellow, those teeth will destroy his work gloves after every switching session!
Are you aware of this?
https://www.ebay.com/bhp/watch-gears-lot
Daniel
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It is very icy during the winter.
Special "geared" gloves are used on the slippery "geared" brake wheels to turn them 
We have a lot of thrift stores here in Denver.
I am a junk collector.
There is a store that is all junk things here in Denver.
I have found amazing modeling supplies there for almost no cost.
https://www.mapquest.com/us/colorado/surplus-tools-commodities-9986926
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Most of the things I find no one else really wants.
One day I wandered into Surplus Tools and there was a box of these filters, that likely come from faucets.
At the time, I was doing N scale. I thought, Oh my, Metal Chain Link Fence!
When I was doing my loco rebuild on the Red Devil, I thought I could modify the front end and add a grill.
I may still do that.


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Oh, yes; it is great pleasure to see in things what they are not but could be!
That is also the core of my modeling.
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Daniel
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