Martin
I think you have hit the nail on the head!! I measured the floor on my M38 HO scale Jeep and it measures .1405” thick = 12¼”. That’s about how much I would have to cut off the legs of the driver. As I remember the floor on my M38 I had back in the 70s was paper thin.
Mel
My Model Railroad
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Bakersfield, California
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Mel,
That is a very innovative solution! It could be applied in all sorts of situations.
Dave
Martin is correct, it’s the thickness of the floor that dings us. In all of the passenger cars that I scratch built the interiors I didn’t have to do any chopping. I used my own scratch built furniture or Mel castings which are to scale and all the passengers fit great. The interiors that came in some of the passenger cars are way off, most of the floors are .0625” thick, some as thick as .125”. Even the thinner floors the distance between the chair/seats is off by .125” or a scale foot.
Dremel to the rescue, I cut out the floor on my M38 Jeep to correct scale and now any 1:87 scale sitting figure fits fine and looks good too.
I’ll post pictures later (baring my Arthritis flare up) after I repair the Mel damage from removing the floor in the cast pot metal jeep. I had painted it several days ago using True-Color Paint and to my surprise none of the paint got dinged in the Dremel process, I have to re-glue the windshield and steering wheel then install the driver and passenger.
Mel
I don’t do a lot of seated figures, but those that I do confirm the flooring hypothesis. When I do a restaurant or bar interior with customers seated at tables, no problem. But, when I do either vehicles or passenger cars, people need surgery to fit in their seats.
Yeah. I feel bad about chopping off feet or even legs. I have to remind myself that they are just plastic models.
I finished my M38 Jeep. I cut out the floorboards and that made all the difference I needed. I didn’t need to chop off any part of either figure.
From this point forward I plan on modifying the floor instead of chopping off feet.
The M38 turned out looking pretty good considering I found in the grass in a Bakersfield City Park having been stepped on a lot. It’s been setting in my to-do box for years and only decided to take it on as an experiment for LED lighting. I can’t find a source for the 1mm 1½ volt micro bulbs that I have been using for headlights for years.
Hi Mel,
The jeep looks good! No more chopping off feet for me either!
I have 12 - 1.5v/15ma. bulbs. They are 1.2 mm dia. I also have two packages of 14v/30ma. 2.4 mm bulbs. I doubt that I will ever use them. You are welcome to them if you are interested. Send me a PM. I’ll even pay postage!
Thanks for the idea about cutting out the floors! You can only have so many shoe stores on your layout![swg][(-D][(-D][(-D]
Edit:
Hobbylinc says they have the bulbs in stock:
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/mtr/mtr18c0310.htm
Amazon says they have 9 in stock:
https://www.amazon.com/Micro-Miniature-Lamps-1-2mm-Diameter/dp/B0755KPRZW
Dave
Actually the Jeep looks pretty good. I took over 15 pictures trying to get a good shot of the floorboards and the pictures I posted were the best of the bunch.
That poor little jeep looked like it had been stomped on for weeks when I happened to see it. I had a CJ5 early on and my buddy had a M38, when I found the squished Jeep I knew I had to fix it up for my layout.
Mel
My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/
Bakersfield, California
I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.