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Magazine Articles By Greg Martin

Box Car Lumber Loading

How lumber is loaded into box cars (circa 1990). Includes prototype photos, and an interior loading plan diagram.

Detailing and Weathering Wood-sheathed Boxcars

The author describes his unique method for artificially creating shadow using pencils on his models.

Making the Bowser class K9A Stock Car Better

The author shows how to improve the look of the Bowser K9a kit. Includes many close-up photos.

Pennsy's EMD F3 (and F5!) - A Quiet Move to Dieselization

This prototype article covers the F3 and F5, including what the differences were between the models (no real external differences). Includes are prototype photos of A-B-B-A, A-B, and A-B-A consists.

Pennsylvania X45 50' Boxcars

After a brief history of this car, the author describes how he modified an Accurail's 50' AAR car to build his model. Includes many model and prototype photos, and a sidebar called the "Guide to PRR Boxcar Lettering Schemes".

PRR Class H30 Three-Bay Covered Hopper Part 1

The author describes improvements he has made to the Bowser model. A large part of the article is to simulate shadow-lines on the model, because our models are seldom viewed under ideal lighting conditions.

Shadowing and Highlighting: Special Weathering Techniques

The author takes an HO-scale McKean NYC PS-1 box car and describes how he built it, detailed it, and then paints and applies decals to it. Next, he gets into the meat of the article, which is his technique for weathering a freight-car-red box car. Several prototype example photos are included.

Upgrading a Bachmann Coaling Tower

Using the Bachmann kit, the author enhanced the scene building a foundation and bunker, the hoist and drying house, the sand bin, adding tipple details, and concludes with painting and weathering the models.