walthers o scale passenger cars

I have built maybe 30 of them in 2 different train sets. I can with the right detail upgrades and techniques they equal anything I own in brass. They are beautiful models. I will dig up photos of the kits and if I can find photos of the sets I built for clients. It's been at least 12 years ago when I built them.

Hi Erik

Thanks for the reply but still looking for some ideas on how to deal with the over size window frames.

Hi Eric,

 

 I have the Skytop car from Walthers and would love to figure out how to replace the "plastic windows at the car's end. Help>!!!!

Are you refering to the whole dome or just the window frames. If the plastic dome is intack you could use it as a pattern, filling it with foam and either find a place that does vacume forming ( local community college might have a class where you might get the part made as a class project ) or might be able to fine plans to build a vacume forming unit on the internet. I do remember seeing an articale in one of the train magazines on how to do it.

Or find someone that will pour you an RTV mold and some resin....

probably better would be to fill the old dome with plaster and use the plaster casting to create the new one, if some part of the plastic dome is missing you could carve into the plaster some of the missing part of the dome