Friday, 10 October 2025

National Car Cast -PC Gondola Build

 

Here we see Peter Mumby's gondola laid out with my Proto gondola that I might steal parts from to built my PC model. Still have to find a decal for the model. It is on my to-do list.
My friend Kevin Smith also dug out from his stash the same PC version of a National Car Cast gondola dating back to the 1970's that Peter had. Well he is more motivated on this project than I have been. He has just completed his model while my bits and pieces are still in an open box till I get at it. Great job Kevin...George Dutka

Kevin's car ready for paint. Kevin Smith's photos

The body gets a coat of PC tone of green. He used NYC Jade Green.

The paint and decals Kevin used. Herald King decals.

  
Kevin did a fine job weathering and adding some details to the interior of the gondola.



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3 comments:

  1. MacSeymour10 October 2025 at 08:48

    Hi George,
    Thanks for the kind words, & the inspiration for my build from your post a while back. You were a great help sending photos & the original instruction sheet, which I lacked. Your turn now !
    Cheers,
    KLS

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  2. Tato11 October 2025 at 20:17

    This brings back a great deal of memories. If I recall correctly, the NCC kit was rather sparse, as shown, consisting of only the four body pieces, with somewhat limited instructions. I believe the kit was produced locally and I found out about it from a small ad in either MR or RMC. Herald King? Another memory generator! Sadly, I think I only got as far as brush painting (Floquil PC green) and pretty much gave up.

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  3. George Dutka12 October 2025 at 07:39

    Yes you are right Keith there was 4 pieces and poor instructions. The NCC kits were offered from a company in the Waterloo, Ontario area in the 1970's.

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