Märklin PKP conversions

Sharp cars!

 

Painting work with EU07 in progress:

 

Pawel,
Nice paint work! do you use an airbrush?

Scott

 

Two shades of green were airbrushed. Orange and black details were hand painted.

 

More recent Polish passanger cars have black stripe in the middle and the windows are blackened. You can see it here:

https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/mobil...kursujacych-przez-pomorze-dlaczego-90644.html

I followed the friend's advice to use some scraps of special foil for car's windows. Here is the first try. I think this is a good idea. One can compare windows with and without foil.

 

I finished EU07-363 electric locomotive:

https://ilostan.forumkolejowe.pl/index.php?nav=foto&id=54368

https://ilostan.forumkolejowe.pl/index.php?nav=foto&id=83209

The final model is using mechanism and chassis from Marklin 88791 (BR216)





With doubledecker:

 

I returned into SM30 shounter project. Locomotive was missing railings. Some are easier to do:



Some are more complicated... My first serious soldering exercise with such tiny items:



Final result could be better and the other side is still waiting:

 

Pawel,
Nice first attempt. It's pretty hard to solder railing.
When I did railing for the camelback, I first carved the railing into a block of maple wood.
Then I taped the wires in place. I used .008 thick brace wire.
The block and tape held everting in place while I soldered. I soldered butt joints.
The second time around I bent loops into the wire, for stronger joints.
Scott

 

SM30 shounter is finished. I worked on ghost-car and another boxcar as well. Yellow hooks, white brake wheels were added and some weathering applied.

 

Pawel,
Nice details and weathering! I really like those boxcars!

Scott

 

Super nice builds, really like your work
Do you print / etch your own brake wheels and hooks or do you have a supplier?

Chris

 

Thank you for the comment. Brake wheels and hooks were photoetched by my friend who had a time of Z-scale fascination. Eventually he went into N-scale and I bought some items for really small money.

Pawel

 

Instead of soldering use ca super glue and touch the joints up with a small drop of epoxy glue. This worked well for my gp40-2.


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New locomotive for the Orlen Oil Company tank cars:

 

Another locomotive - for regional passanger trains. 2 pantographs had to be added:

 

I have several Marklin locos rebuild and repainted. The boxes indicate old- original model. I decided to change it:



I also have many pieces of rolling stock without original boxes. For better storage I finally decided to buy High Tech Modellbahnen products. I also added description of content of the individual box.

 

Extremely well organized storage! I like it.

 

One of the waiting projects is EC Wawel train travelling from Krakow (Poland) to Hamburg (Germany). It was interesting with 2 German and 2 Polish wagons: https://www.ok-kolej.pl/details.php?image_id=10970

For German part Marklin models can be used out of the box. Polish must be made by repainting some Marklin stuff. The first one is ready:



One Polish and one German car:

 

Pawel,
You have painting Z scale down to a science! Very accurate and crisp!
Nice decals as well.

Scott