The sixth Penn Central 21" passenger car, "Imperial Trees", is completed. As usual the trucks received steel 3/16" E-clips. I glued the top edges of single windows in the body shell so the tops would not fall inward. (Not all windows have retaining pins above them.) I also painted some undercarriage parts that did not receive black spray paint at the factory.
The interior seats and toilets have been given two coats of paint. All Preiser 65602 figures are newly painted. Four more packs from Germany arrived today. They are becoming scarce again on Ebay, or they are greatly over-priced.
The car is drying from seat touch-up to cover glue shine. The walls and floor screw heads were also touched-up with Testor's Flat "Gull Gray". This is my last car for a while. I have done 129 Lionel and Atlas O 21" cars over the past five years: 42 D&RGW and WP Atlas O Zephyr and Amtrak cars. In Lionel I have detailed seven-car sets: two C&O, two NYC, Wabash, UP, SP, PC, an Amtrak Diner, and two 10-car Broadway Limited sets. I hope to add the PC Dining Car when I return to substitute teaching in the fall.
This summer I will continue painting people before my bottles of custom-mixed Testor's Flat Acryl paints dry up.
Have a good summer.
Sincerely, John Rowlen
