Lionel Canadian Pacific Dining Car started.
I have completed the interior painting of the two Canadian Pacific Coaches #111 and #122. I need to paint more Preiser 65602 Seated People for these cars. I have three 24-packs at home and seven in-transit from Questmark2 in Germany. The white Preiser figures have excellent detail molded into them when compared to the Chinese beige figures.
The Dining Car wood table bases are painted with two coats of Flat Earth Red, The table tops have two coats of Flat White and need a total of five. I am mixing a new batch of Earth Red and Flat White for the seats and seat backs that I will cut and glue in place. Adding the seat backs improves the look of the Dining Car. It will take another week or so to paint and add people to the coaches and Dining Car so I may be absent for a time.
Update: I painted the seat cubes with two coats of newly mixed paint. The .040 1/4" strips of Plastruct Styrene have been painted and will be cut for seat backs tomorrow when I am more alert. After gluing them to the back of the cubes, the seats will get another coat of the tan paint to fill in cracks between the backs and the cubes.
2nd Update: Woke at 3:00 A.M. and cut seat backs and glued them in place. I just need to give a final tan coat of paint to the seats.
Have a good week.
Sincerely, John Rowlen.
