Dear Forum members,
A member of the Cherry Valley Model Railroad club , Chip Burnett , recently bought a K-Line ADOLPHUS private car to modify and 2 rail to operate on our 2 rail layout.
The ADOLPHUS was the private car built by the Wabash RR for Anheuser/Busch and sold to PRR eventually became AMTRAK #10000.
Some photos of the interior of the car done so far by Chip. Gotta love the galley and tiny PRR photos !!!
Hope this gives you some inspiration to do some modeling using basic items.
John
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Excellent work by a fine 0 scale modeler - Gervay 'Chip' Burnett.
The Rockford O Scalers agree that details make the difference in all phases of model railroading. Passenger cars and their interiors are a prime example of this. In addition to interior details, it is important to put "passengers in the seats" to enhance the railroad's passenger and dining car departments revenues!
jdunn posted:Dear Forum members,
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Some photos of the interior of the car done so far by Chip. Gotta love the galley and tiny PRR photos !!!
Hope this gives you some inspiration to do some modeling using basic items.
John
John, thanks for the photos. For me, I would get inspiration from reading a "How To" by Mr. Burnett on how to make those tiny images, etc.
The photos posted hold my interest for about two minutes; a thread explaining how to do it would have me for days because I would like to decorate my passenger cars.
Perhaps the Rockford O Scalers could contribute a thread or two on how they did such a remarkable job decorating those passenger cars.
In both instances above, if there are already threads on these projects, I would welcome a reference to them.
Nice piece of work - I like that detail touch on the galley pots!
Hi Carl,
Of the three photos I posted, only the people in the Sunset 3rd Rail RDC were done by the Rockford O Scalers. This was accomplished simply by taking the car apart and gluing passengers and engineer figures into the seats which were already there.
The other two cars were professionally built and detailed by others using commercially available components. Specifically Eddy Wichman for the C&NW Diner and Dan Pantera for the Illinois Central Diner.
We have done this type of work ourselves, on occasion, and it isn’t that hard but is time consuming. But certainly the results are well worth the effort, in our opinion.
The small photos are straight forward. Find a photo or painting you would like on the internet, download it and put it into a Word processor. Once you do that you select it and you can change the size. Find a size that works for you and print it out. When I do something like that I will do a bunch of pictures so I don't waste paper. I don't use all of them but I'll have a stock pile for the next project.
Gene Anstine
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