Hi Steven - your design looks great. I had thought about 3d printing the whole body originally, but had two concerns - warping of the one piece print, and cleaning up all the layer lines (even with 6k or better resin prints I’ll still have them) with all the ribs and details. So I went a different route. I am going to design and use single resin 3d prints for the pusher bumpers, and I’m going to try to do also for some or all of the brake rigging, especially with the exposed cluster on the 39As.
So what’s been going on since fall of 2020 with this project - not a whole lot unfortunately. I have the two complete cars - a G39 and a G38, and around 37 under various stages of construction. A few months ago I started working on them again, but it will be slowly. A bit of good news with these is a few years ago I was able to convince K4 Decals to make correct decal sets for these in O Scale, and he made beautiful sets in PRR, PC, and CR for both the G38,39, 39a and other variants. I was consumed in 2021 and 2022 with medical issues, the illness and death of my mother, and overwhelming work load in my own business.
I was doing some model railroading, but mostly involving HO Freemo modules that serve as both my son’s home layout, and one we occasionally take to shows. As with most of my model railroading, I don’t use kits, and most of the HO structures are scratchbuilt modern industrial complexes, which take a lot of time to build. I also started an O Scale N&W gondola project, and a Georgia Pacific pulpwood rack project. (I’ll add a photo of the in progress N&W gon, as you can see the mix of laser cut acrylic, styrene, and both resin and filament 3d printed parts.
