{"id":1514,"date":"2008-11-05T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2008-11-05T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T04:26:00","slug":"an-entire-summers-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"An Entire Summers Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 (One) Truck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I guess the summer wasen&#8217;t a complete modeling write off.\u00a0 I did manage to build this little Jordan Miniatures pickup truck&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1429.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1516\" title=\"Jordan Miniatures Truck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1429.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1429-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1432.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1518\" title=\"Jordan Miniatures Truck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1432.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1432-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1441.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1524\" title=\"Jordan Miniatures Truck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1441.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1441-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1523\" title=\"Jordan Miniatures Truck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1440.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1440-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1443.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1515\" title=\"Jordan Miniatures Truck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1443.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1443.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1443-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love building Jordan Miniatures kits.\u00a0 They only take a few evenings, or in this case, 4 months, but the finished models look great!\u00a0 You can&#8217;t have too many of them, so I make one when I don&#8217;t feel like focusing on a big project.<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed lately that the quality of the moulding has dropped, it would appear the moulds are starting to wear out.\u00a0 I think I will try and only buy the old, beat up boxes I see at train shows and avoid the newer production runs.<\/p>\n<p>After I built this model I painted it with a concoction of paint that I made up previously for a steam engine that had a fair bit of Floquil Glaze in it.\u00a0 Floquil Glaze is an additive to their paints that aids in airbrushing, sort of like a bit of gloss.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t realize that this stuff would attack styrene, the plastic that Jordan models are made of.\u00a0 The entire model crazed after painting.\u00a0 I figured it was ruined.<\/p>\n<p>After a few days (ok 5 weeks) I repainted it with some water based Accu-Flex.\u00a0 I had been wanting to try this stuff and figured this would be a good test.\u00a0 I was quite impressed with the results.\u00a0 I painted the model with Rail Brown, a nice dirty colour, and did a bit of weathering with some Weathered Black.\u00a0 The crazing from the earlier paint actually works to create a dirty, rusty look to the truck.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it wasn&#8217;t a write off afterall.<\/p>\n<p>-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 (One) Truck I guess the summer wasen&#8217;t a complete modeling write off.\u00a0 I did manage to build this little Jordan Miniatures pickup truck&#8230; I love building Jordan Miniatures kits.\u00a0 They only take a few evenings, or in this case, 4 months, but the finished models look great!\u00a0 You can&#8217;t have too many of them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}