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For some reason, my older posts are not more show here on the forum.
I had a previous story about the Modern Narrow of the White Pass & Yukon Route.

The WP&YR had a full steel caboose, built in their shops after WWII. My model will be a copy of this caboose. The WP&YR painted the caboose international orange for their rotary service before the painted the caboose into the well known green and yellow colors.

I designed the caboose in my CAD system and made a rapid prototype sample as you see in the images below. My prevoius version is the orange painted caboose







For the brass folks. Caboose 901 is not ready yet, but the plattform is in production. More will follow:



More White Pass & Yukon stuff can befound at my web page at
http://www.whitepassfan.net
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Yes, this is done at my favorite rapid prototype supplier. I can choose different material. And for some reason, my first try, the orange painted 907 preview caboose was done with a diferent material than the second try. For me the material at the second try - the white caboose - is not my final material. Way too rough material. But we can try a much better and fine material.
But in any case, I like the brass like my caboose 901 much better. But if I compare the cost, a brass caboose in final will be 3 or 4 times more expensive if I do only one or two cars. If I do more brass will be much and much cheaper. But I think that maybe a mixed version is much better. High detail out of brass and the rest with rapid prototype.

Boerries
http://www.whitepassfan.net

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Great work! I had been considering having something 3D printed! i had been questioning what the best way to do it was, wondering if it might save money to have something made into individual parts of a freight car body and attach them together or have an entire body made as one piece.  Did you have the entire body of your caboose 3D printed as one or in individual parts? Thanks in advance! -scott

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