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Magazine Articles By Montford Switzer

Build an Improved Inspection Car

The author improved the Micro-Mark transparent inspection car by adding couplers, using representative trucks, adding weight, and cementing small line levels (both directions).

Detailing a Chevy Farm Truck

The author writes about how he super-detailed an Alloy Forms 1956 Chevy truck.

Modeling a 41-foot Nickel Plate Steel Gondola

Using an Accurail kit, the author super-detailed the model. Includes prototype and model photos, a materials list, and a prototype roster.

Modeling a C&O Twelve-panel Side PS-1 Boxcar

The author used an Intermountain kit to build this model. Includes prototype and model photos, including construction close-ups. The article has a sidebar on how to model rivets using the Archer Fine Transfers, which are decal-like sheets that allow modeling of straight rows of rivets.

Modeling a Kahn's refrigerator Car

Encouraged by the start of the project at a convention clinic, the author completed the car. The article focuses on the underbody detail. Includes construction photos and a materials list.

Modeling a Muncie & Western R.R. Wood Boxcar

The article covers how to build an outside-braced model of this well-known glass-jar logo boxcar. Includes many prototype photos, boxcar ORER, model construction photos, and a parts list.

Modeling a Transit Mixer

How to model a concrete mixer. Includes a parts list, a bit of prototype history, and terminology used in the concrete business.

NKP's Wood Caboose

Background information about the radio-equipped wood cabooses, followed by how the author modified his Overland brass model.

Quarry Critter

Using a Funaro & Camerlengo Plymouth switcher, the author built a static model of a quarry critter.

Rivet Maker - Using the Dremel

A simple project to make an affordable rivet press.

White County Highway Department Dump Truck

The author modifies a Mini Metals dump truck to match the prototype befitting his modeled time period. Includes a sidebar on snow plow brackets and how to model them.