The final details and finishing the wagon.
On the side doors the coat of arms of Württemberg were placed. Therefore I downloaded the image, and resized it in Photoshop. Saved as Photoshop file with a transparent background, it could be e-mailed to the decal shop. They printed it with a laser printer, that can print the colour white as well on a special transfer sheet. This came out very nice.
The waterslides from the decal shop (https://www.decalwinkel.nl/) worked very fine. The same way as applying transfers on a model Airfix kit, but in this case slightly bigger (they are 63mm wide).
With a scalpel the decal was cut close to the contour, before fixing it to the wagon. Extra care has to be taken around the fragile edges (the crown and deer antlers) when wiping the water away with a soft brush.
The coat of arms of Württemberg on the doors; This coat of arms is still used by the brewery "Stuttgarter Hofbräu" and is also used by sports car manufacturer Porsche.
The first coat of varnish applied with my HVLP paint spray gun, this to get an even coat of varnish.
The varnish coats will hopefully give the lettering some protection when the wagon is in use.
But then again I still think great care has to be taken when using the wagon on the track and while loading and unloading into the car.
The last parts that were painted are the M2 bolts that hold the corner profiles. There are a lot of them, but by inserting them in a piece of carton, they could be cleaned and painted in one go.
The coupling hooks and buffers were heated with a propane torch and dipped in used motor oil.
This will 'burn' into the surface.
And after letting the oil to burn of, a reasonable nice black surface is left. This 'blacking' is more resistant to scratches then paint.
Several coats of varnish were sprayed before the final assembly on the frame.
The finished "Württembergische Hohenzollernische Brauerei-Gesellschaft" Kühlwagen on scale 1:8.
Only two of these beautiful wagons were built for this brewery, no. 600048 and...
...no. 60049. Only of this wagon (as far I'm aware of) one picture exists. The so called works photo of Maschinen Fabrik Esslingen of 1909.
Alas, still due to the Corona circumstances, there is no access to our club track. So pictures in the garden and living room have to do for now.
Space for tools and stuff for a day at the track. The wagon has a volume of 72 litres.
The drawings for this wagon can be downloaded from:
My son already suggested to make a nice box for the it, so it can be safely transported to the club track. 😄
The gauge 1 and H0 models with which the project of this 1:8 scale train set started with in 2006.
To big for the living room, but is looks nice as a train set.
Click below for direct link to start of construction series of:
