Guys, I’ve never cared for the conspicuous spring mechanisms in PSCs cars... I understand them, but I don’t like them. I do love the fact that the end doors have floor plates and are fully operational.
Anyways, I remove the springs loads wherever possible or visible. Then, I resolder the doors in place again. This allows me to fully glaze the car without much hazzle. A few shots to illustrate...
I removed the lower middle batten strips... I don’t see them in the prototype, and they would interfere with the dry transfers later on... 
Wow Santiago, this is again wonderful work! Very cool!!
Thanks!
Test fitting... will solder last with the marker lights as they are quite delicate and I’m handling the car a lot at this stage.
Really nice work Santiago!
John
Many thanks!
Made a lot of progress in the last two days.... one thing is certain, making the drumhead casings was not easy!
Added these two grabs, the marker lights and soldered the drumhead casings. For marker lights I will use miniatronics 1.5v bulbs, and for the drumheads warm white LEDs... I think I’ll end up using a Soundtrack sound car decoder...
Quick question... does anyone know a good supplier for custom dry transfers? I have some leads for decals, but I rather have dry transfers....
And what about a supplier for clear slides for drumheads? Not Tomar, I need custom size and image... anyone?
Great work sir 
I think this will be the final version of the door... I’m dreading the idea of making that gate!
It will great You will do fine..! I’m excited to see it when you finish 
Made the gate today... I’ll have to find a way to add the lock to make it pop...
Excuse the less than perfect work, these pieces are TINY!!!!
I covered the drumheads, they are distracting...
Fantastic
What to do about the drumheads? I’m thinking Kodachrome slides...
I made Color laser transparencies of my own art I did in Adobe illustrator and used a translucent blue white behind it lit with LED sheet, it was neon white tube behind it and felt the blue white light best recreated the recollections I heard from some who I talked with that saw it living in McCook and Fort Morgan in the 1940’s. They recall the blueish glow..
I used the art on Jack’s boxes for the HO Sam Tech DVP sets
This is shaping up beautifully.
Erik, that’s great! I’ll be using your image file as this will save me the trouble of working the BRHS Exposition Flyer cover image.
Do you have a picture of the lit drumhead? In my experience laser transparencies are not as opaque and light bleeds through...
Thanks, @AGHRMatt!
I revisited the gate, I think it looks better now...
Beautiful work Santiago - I look forward to your posts - they are inspirational. Do you have a copy the Passenger Car Catalog, subtitle PULLMAN OPERATED EQUIPMENT by Krattville Publications, date 1968. It is long out of print and to the best of my knowledge has never been reissued. It has 180 pages of invaluable pictures and data much of which came from the Pullman Co. If you don't have a copy contact my by email and perhaps I can help.
Beautiful work Santiago'.. That gate is sick'... 👽 This is going to be one spectacular looking Pullman Car'...
That looks nice, how do you keep the solder so clean and isolated from the multiple attachment points when attaching all the bars? Are you using heat gun or soldering iron?
Thanks!
Ed, I’ll take you up on that one. Thanks!!! Will email you shortly.
Thanks, Ted!
Mike... heat is the answer to your question. A 175 watt soldering iron and some flux will make the solder flow nicely. Sanding papers and brass wire brush also help in some cases.
Added truck pick ups as well as the necessary mods for sound car decoder... all conveniently located inside the car’s restrooms.... 
Santiago,
Looking at the pictures, how are you cleaning up the solder from picture 1 to picture 2? Is there where you use the brass wire brush?
Thanks!
Mike
Mike, I only used sand paper for the gate.
Another fantastic piece of work sir!
Thanks, BobbyD
I worked the drumhead file a bit... Not done as I need to fit it to the cases size and proportion.
after lamps, ashtrays and carpet it should look pretty decent!
First attempt at printing the drumheads. I’m not very happy, even at a 1200 resolution setting on coated white paper, the image just isn’t as sharp as I want it to. I do like the backlight glow in getting with this paper...
If I go with the printed paper I’d need to find a way to install glazing in front to simulate glass...
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