Tyler Blaskovich mainly works with r-t-r cars and locos and adds de- tails or repaints as necessary. Working from the Internet or his own photos, he uses oils, acrylics and powders to add the graffiti and weathering. ACFX 98791 is an Atlas Master series car, the tank is At- hearn Genesis, and gondola DJLX 98519 is a distressed Exact Rail car in scrap metal service. Tyler is 12 years old and is Ron Lutton’s grandson. Southern coach 1088 is an example of the growing num- ber of passenger cars seen at RPM’s. It is the work of Fenton Wells. Originally an undecorated Branchline kit, it has steam ejector air conditioning, full end detailing, an interior and SR-specific fittings.
see you in the clinics, display room and on the deck next year, and, perhaps, in be- tween at another RPM Meet.
HO scale Conrail 215090 (below) is a former PRR class X75 Pullman-Standard boxcar with a door from an old Reading car on one side, a quick repair to keep the car in serv- ice. This is the work of Jeff Coleman, who started with an Atlas 50-foot car. For an X75, he cut off the diagonal panel roof and re- placed it with an X-panel one from a Branch- line kit. (The roof was separate on those kits; that model is now part of the Atlas line). About that odd door: Jeff repainted a stock Atlas door in the Reading scheme used for boxcars in paper service and bought a Read- ing modern boxcar decal set to get the “D.”
Before he purchased Cannon & Company from its founder, Gordon Cannon, Dave Hussey was one of the early activists in the prototype modeling movement. He has not backed off and often brings some of his cur- rent projects to show. Dave had this HO Southern Pacific B-100-7 boxcar (above) at Cocoa Beach. It is the prototype model of what will become a laser-cut styrene flat kit from Cannon & Co. (available direct only, for details see:
www.cannonandco.net). WAG 4125 and 4157 (left) are Mike Schleigh’s HO boxcars built from Sunshine kits (no longer in production). Other than ladders made from .008″ wire and .030″ square styrene, they are pretty much stock with Jerry Glow decals.
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