Where can I find or kitbash commuter car seats and interiors?
There are several ways to go with individual seats or the IHC interior kits that can abe made to work (assuming HO scale). Check Walthers for more ideas or AntonioFP45’s easy upgrades to passenger car interiors thread here for lots more ideas. J.R.
Commuter coaches are spartan at best. The late Espee commute cars had just seats in pairs along each side of the car. There might be washrooms as well either one each for ladies and men or a unisex one. Research teh prototype you are going to model.
Palace Car Co. has interior kits you might check out and as mentioned IHC has interiors too.
Seats. Seatbacks are all you can see in the windows. You can buy individual cast seats frm Walthers, but they are pricey. I made my own from soft pine. Cut the pine into an “L” shape with a dado in the table saw, and then cross cut the “L” shape into seat sized pieces. Paint to resemble either woven wicker or dark cloth.
Alloboard,
Palace Car Company’s products are a great and easy starting point [:D][tup]:
http://www.palacecarco.com/products.php?cat=13
As mentioned by GMTRacing, here’s the thread on suggestions for interior colors for various railroads.
http://cs.trains.com/forums/1345598/ShowPost.aspx
BTW: Which commuter railroad or agency are you modeling?
Pikestuff has simple passenger car seats, in various colours, made of styrene. Multiple seats, with armrests, on a “floor” section, with enough sections to equip at least one car with every package. You can also cut the seats from the “floor”, if a different spacing is required.
Wayne
I’ve got a Athearn Bombardier car ripped apart because I’m painting up a advertisement car for my GO Train. I could post a picture of the interior if that would help you.
The Osceola and St.Croix, the railroad of the Minnesota Transportation Museum, uses former Rock Island commuter coaches that are very similar to the MDC or Model Power Harriman cars. I think the Harriman cars come with interiors. Palace Car Co. might be a good place for seats for the MDC version. PCC makes kits for specific cars that appears to have everything you need. I haven’t tried them yet but I plan on trying them soon, as I have several older cars that need interiors.
As often as not, the default for passenger car interiors was light green…actually, it seems like most everything in the steam era that had an interior (industrial buildings, railroad buildings, cockpits of planes, cabooses, etc.) were light “industrial green” inside. Tamiya Cockpit Green or Grey-Green is probably pretty close.