Casting on Valentine's Day

What a wife I have! She allowed me to take 4 hours for an NMRA meeting/layout tours, as well as an hour before church producing my first castings from the new OR&L car side/end molds. This evening she made Milanese Risotto (she did it the way I would, with chicken broth instead of beef so that it had a nice, yellow color) while I made authentic Wiener Schnitzel. Thanks honey, you're great!

And so here is the pre-production castings along with the roof. Note that the fascia is missing, hence the gap between the two, and I haven't yet performed the touch ups on the roof...



The side mold is perfect. There is a slight detail change I might make to the end master and then produce a new end mold. With the pre-production samples in hand, I can now prepare the frame and window masters, as well as prep the roof for molding.

I'm very enthusiastic as I think about my next project (I ought to prepare masters for those South Park cars which utilize the 34' car roof).