The Racine car is a little diff. It is cut down in length. Often, I cut cars, but usually from 36 to 34--By the way, I adjust car length to the scribed sheeting --yupp. Most your sheet is 1/16th thick and scribed 1/16th -- wouldn't be groovy if on corners, the thickness of the sheet exposed as the first board? or at least not having half a board ?--well, you can. as example, procedure for sides overlaying ends:
Dry fit the side pieces together, beveling just enough to get a consistent scribe-line at the joints. glue face down on parchment baking paper. Now , take the side sheet and lay it on the car floor. You can figure out which scribe line the car length will fall on by looking at the two while allowing for the thickness of the end sheets. Hopefully, a couple of pieces of strathmore paper under the end sheets will lengthen the body to the desired side scribe. mark the sides as they will not be interchangeable.
Once the length is figured, you can glue the end sheets on, mindful that you are going to sand the body with end sheets attached to the next end scribe. use a full sheet of quality 80 or 100 sandpaper glued to a flat surface . Put a little bevel on the ends to match the scribe before gluing the sides on --and don't forget to laminate something to the insides of the sides--both these models have scribe separation because I'm stupid and I didn't ...I know of no way to fix it.
The end hardware is HO Grandt line mining gate hinges--I showed it to Cliff and he really liked it --in fact , see that broken brake wheel? Cliff Grandt himself accidentally snagged it with his wristwatch while examining and broke it ! I will probably only half *** fix it cause it reminds me of him and how much I enjoyed our interactions--he was really a great guy and an astounding craftsman!
Oh! , the trucks ....those are All Nation--the ones with that big blank on top above the springs--well, I cut the top arch bar and bent it down, then filed off the top ..and Voila' , a pretty good flatter top arch bar...It would probably look better with new san jaun or equal trucks, but I was so proud of myself at the time ..
Regards, Jeff JJ Davies San Ramon CA
