@AlanRail posted:I just wanted to give my visitors something to look at if they opened up a sliding door on either side of the car.
Great detail work, but that happens a lot??
Why the skepticism?
I don't think my experience is unique: Visitors who come to see my passenger car runs always peer inside cars with lighted full interiors and if there are opening doors on baggage cars (or boxcars) they will most definitely open them! Actually it makes the modeling more difficult because looking at scale passengers, fittings and cargo at close range means that any defects in paint/glue are as noticeable as they are in high res photos. But the interest in such features is far greater for the average viewer than in rivet details or even steam running gear.
Anyway the modeling is more than half the fun/satisfaction of passenger car projects, whether you are striving for prototypical accuracy or (as in my case) just a representation of the real thing. Like @T.Albers I keep a photographic record of my projects and there is an album of them to remind me what I did - if not exactly why.
