HO scale reefer underframe scratchbuild

[Ace-Garageguy]

I recently bought a few vintage Train Master/Train Miniature reefer kits, supposedly NOS, for $5 each.

They're very nice kits of a style of wood-sheathed refrigerated car that was used well into the 1960s, with some remaining in service into the '70s.

Unfortunately, when I got them home, I found these two had been relieved of their main underframe sills and bolsters.

They go for $20-$30 online, shipped, so they're still a deal.

This one has the part, the black spiney thing, so all I have to do is make a couple from styrene.

Again unfortunately, Hobby Town was out of everything in Evergreen or Plastruct I need to build them.

But not to worry. I found some stash I'd never really put in stock here, so away we'll go.

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Ace-Garageguy
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