I like building car kits.
Just now I’m busy with a kit from TOMALCO. I’ve got them cheap. The previous owner has started building. Some parts are missing, so I have to improvise.
This car is already airbrushed.
And I’ve started with a second kit from ALAMOSA CAR SHOPS.
Wolfgang
I could be wrong here as I do not know the lineage of the cars pictured but, it looks like the sides are upside down on both. As they are it would require a step down to the floors to get into the cars. maybe the prototypes were that way but, I don’t recall ever seeing any like that.
Dan
Maybe it was prototypical practice in order to keep the water in for transporting trropical fish…
EF-3 Yellowjacket
From a nostalgic point, these kits are pretty neat. As I never built anything by Tomalco, I don’t know how they would compare with today’s “craftsman” level kits. On the question of the doors (not the rock group-sorry, Manzerek, not this time), shouldn’t the doors be positioned approximately equadistant with relationship to top and bottom? Just curious.
EF-3 Yellowjacket
Maybe the door is a little bit small. But it’s according to the instructions.
Here’s a pic from the prototype
http://www.drgw.net/gallery/DRGW3686NG/drgw_3686_chama_nm_29_sep_2007_000
Wolfgang
The door is a little “small” ? According to the D&RGW car #3686, they obviously used the wrong car for a prototype, 3686 has a standard loading dock level floor like all other boxcars.
I think it’s more of the sides being too tall. The door is probably OK, it’s just that the sides are too tall. Compare it to another boxcar to check for sure. The sides and ends would need to shortened in height and all of the details added back on.
Using it the way it is, it may be the first narrow gauge hy-cube! But, I would at least install a door that ‘looked’ correct.
Gorsh, I allus thought it was “hi-cube”… One way to get that old prototype flavour is to tack a “do not hump” tag on the door…
Happy modelling
Rich