In the early days of international container shipping, chillers and freezer units were supplied refrigerated air from the ship.These containers were 20x8x8ft units and there were 2 "portholes in the rear wall of the container, connected via "elephants ears" to the ship's cold air system.
I recently came across some pictures on Flickr StArnaudRails showing an interstate goods at Warrenheip in 1984 with open wagons carrying plain-sided containers with portholes in there ends https://www.flickr.com/photos/85896932@N07/25571728666/in/album-72157631779880179/
20 and decided to add some of these to the container fleet.
To produce this container variant I used an old Powerline plain sided 20' shipping container and a Lineline ACT negative logo decal. This was one of the early containers that had stickers with TNT logos on them. I removed the sticker by soaking the container and then scrapping it away. To produce the porthole I first drilled two depressions into the end of the container. The surround was produced by using a standard hole punch to punch out two discs of 10thou styrene sheet. A 3mm art punch was used to produce the inner hole. They were then glued to the end of the container. I filed the roof hatches off of the container and used strips of 10thou styrene to produce the bracing along the edges of the side and roof of the container.
The container was spray painted with flat white paint. Silver paint was brush painted on the bracing. The container was then sprayed with dull coat to protect the decal. The containers still need to be weathered but will probably be used as is for a while as I usually do weathering in batches when I have a few models that I trying to replicate a similar effect.
Y152 waits to depart Ballarat yard with a pilot working to the industrial sidings at Redan.
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