Mark, Thanks! Yes, they're just styrofoam blocks (leveled out with spackling compound) covered with - MOSTLY - laser-jet printed paper. I did the first four, 2-China Shipping, and 2-Hamburg SUD using my own inkjet printer. I decided it cost too much color ink, and had the rest printed at Staples using their color laser-jet printer for about $0.56 a sheet (+tax). So, probably, all told, each container cost less than $1 even counting the Elmer's glue & spackling compound. That's pretty cheap when you consider you might need dozens of them in a model intermodal yard or train. The laser-jet prints were much sharper and the color was much deeper than the inkjet. The difference was obvious between the Hamburg SUD containers printed on the inkjet vs. the laser-jet. (I should have moved the UP passenger train so the difference between the Hamburg SUD container on the intermodal train and the 2 in the stack was more obvious.) I'm attaching additional photos showing this difference. The Hamburg SUD on the right was printed with my inkjet, the Hamburg SUD on the left was printed with Staples' laser-jet.
Regards, Randy Griggs
