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A bit premature since this is in the building stage, but I have two "Atlantis" 1:48 kits I hope to complete in the next few weeks. There are good videos with excellent ideas on painting.



Howitzer video: Howitzer Gun 8" Plastic Model kit 1/48 (atlantis-models.com)

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Painting ideas, this is easy for an army version too:  https://atlantis-models.com/wh...stic-model-kit-1-48/

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@ToledoEd, is this an Atlantis kit?

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I just finished my 1:48 scale Atlantis Piasecki H-25 army helicopter and mounted it on a repurposed Menards military flatcar with a deck that I weathered. The helicopter kit doesn't supply side windows, so I added them. The landing gear was just a bit too wide, so I trimmed the stub axles. As mentioned in my YouTube, the orange tethers on the blades are something I saw online for this helicopter, although mine are too wide. (I may look for some cord at the craft store that's a better size.)

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UPDATE: My American Freedom Train (AFT) flatcars with wagons are getting closer to being finished.  The wagons are samples from Alan (@ALANRAIL) and I should soon get all 10 finished ones.  The vehicles are not correct either, but the best I could find at the time.  Should have the flatcars and loads completed by the 4th of July to add to the rest of the train.

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I just finished my 1:48 scale Atlantis Piasecki H-25 army helicopter and mounted it on a repurposed Menards military flatcar with a deck that I weathered. The helicopter kit doesn't supply side windows, so I added them. The landing gear was just a bit too wide, so I trimmed the stub axles. As mentioned in my YouTube, the orange tethers on the blades are something I saw online for this helicopter, although mine are too wide. (I may look for some cord at the craft store that's a better size.)

John

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Nice work John! I have had one of those helos in the closet waiting to get done in Navy. There is a Huey or two around here too.

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I'm not much of a scratch builder, but one load I would really like to see is a giant wind turbine blade.  I used to drive I-30 between Little Rock and Texarkana several times a year back in the early 2000s, and would often see a convey of them, usually 3, on trucks.  These guys were huge, maybe 100 feet long?  They must have been heading to the wind farms in West Texas.  I also saw the same size blades several times on the UP line on the Hardy Toll Road in Houston, heading north.  I don't recall how they were being carried, and I was driving by myself at around 70 mph usually, so I couldn't snap a picture on that busy road.

Update on a few trial loads and an eye opener on the size of more modern loads compared to older loads. I finished the 1 :48 Sinclair gas truck and thought I might see what it looked like with a 1:50 Corgi Greyhound Scenicruiser I was thinking of adding to a flat car. No tie downs or chocks at this point, simply a trial balloon to see what they look like individually and together.  These are both 50' flat cars. The Sinclair is on a Weaver and the Greyhound is on a Lionel.

Each looks good individually but when you put them together, the scenicruiser is big, it makes the Sinclair truck look like a runt!  I have blown some time trying to find the real dimensions and capacity of the original White / Freuhauf prototype gas truck but no luck.  Atlantis says it is 1:48 so who can argue? Gas trucks must have been small in the late 40s and 50s when I think these were around.  The moral of the story is that newer scale loads are bigger than I imagined in comparison with older items.   The last picture is a 1:48 fire truck from 1949 and a Menards box truck which is also supposed to be 1:48. I did not expect this level of difference.

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Here is the modern versus not so modern comparison- they obviously had small fires back in 1949.

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@hokie71 posted:

Atlantis says it is 1:48 so who can argue? Gas trucks must have been small in the late 40s and 50s when I think these were around. 

I worked on a 1950's single axle gas tanker.  We had to put a clutch in it.  6 cyl gas engine.  I remember thinking it was small for the job.    It was still being run by a construction company in the laye 1970's. In the 1940s-50s most gas stations only had 2-3 pumps.   

In the early 2000s at LIRR, we scrapped the first 10 Budd M1 MU cars that were due for heavy overhaul. As the M7 Bomb cars were coming onto the property, we used 90 foot flatcars to initially send the first 10 cars offline to be scrapped. They were detrucked onsite and secured on the cars by Hulcher Services. The rest were attached to the flats that Bombardier provided to deliver the m7s and sent to Mexico for scrapping.

I was there for the initial 10 and I created a scrap train using MTH TTX 90s and an MTH Gon for the trucks to model what happened.

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Since nobody modeled the M1 cars, the Budd Amfleet cars are a close choice. I put cribbing under the  carbodys and settled for the Slamtrack configuration of the doors and decoration. Maybe I will strip the paint, but it looks close enough. The Aluminum cars are Williams, from a six-car set.

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I recently ordered a number of items from Menards that came on flat cars, but I removed the pieces from the flat cars to separately place on my layout, which left me with three (3) empty flat cars which needed custom loads (note that two of them came with blue painted truck side frames).

When I placed the order with Menards, I also ordered their 1:48 Military Truck (which was on sale for only $4.44) and I mounted that on one of the empty flat cars with no modifications. The black hold-downs are from a set of inexpensive black, elastic pony-tail holders from a box store pharmacy.

I also had a yellow plastic "Caterpillar" caboose in my roster that my young grandson wanted to buy a few months ago and it came with hook-type couplers that I needed to replace with conventional trucks and couplers, so I also ordered a Menards CNW tank car at the same time and removed its trucks and swapped them onto the caboose. I then mounted the old trucks with the hook-style couplers from the caboose onto another of my empty flat cars. I separated the wheels and axles from the trucks and painted the frames with Krylon "Camo" and sprayed the black wheels and axles a matte clear; then re-assembled and mounted them on the flat car. The metal chain tie-downs are low-cost 4mm jewelry chains from Michaels that I sprayed with matte clear and then dipped in an india ink aging solution and then weathered with some black chalk.
Finally, I stripped, distressed and weathered the now coupler-less CNW tank car and mounted it to the last flat car using the same chain tie-downs. The "hole" was made by pressing a hot soldering iron into the tank top. The wooden cradle for the tank to sit on is made out of 1/4" basswood and stained a dark brown.   
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Lionel Santa Fe 6-9823 Std. O flat car with load. Certainly not rare, nor does it have an custom load. But, I believe it qualifies as unusual because, AFAIK, it is the only Lionel Std. O flat car produced with this faux wood crate load. If I’m wrong, I’m sure someone will correct me.

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My most recent project was an "Indiana Jones" tribute military load, to fill the space behind one of my new Menards deuce and a half transport vehicles:

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Earlier, I negotiated a multi-car "Hot Wheels" loan from one of my grandsons to fill the empty slots on a car carrier I had picked up with a mixed lot of used cars:

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And even earlier, I created a dump-able log load out of some handy hardwood dowels, to fill a venerable Marx log dumping car that came without its original load. I also ended up scratch building a log receiving rack (not pictured), since the small plastic rack that came with it (visible behind the log car) would on average miss as many logs as it caught!

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