I’ve finished the Lounge and 1 coach. The Walthers lighting kits need to have a longer wire from the board to the strip so that it can be hidden in the corner. I also glued the end panels directly to the inside of the car because “floating” there was too much of a gap in the window. All car windows touched up with Alclad II green. Does anyone have an eta for the Dining Car Interior?? (Coach- 2 pics then Lounge:)
Looks great.
If it’s not too much trouble, could you post a closeup photo showing the Alclad tinted windows.
Oh and the dining car interior is nearing completion so shouldn’t be too long until it’s released.
CZ
I used a light coat of Alclad on this SF car to allow the interior to be seen. The is a comparison of the Walthers new on the left and Alclad on the right.
Thanks for the tinting photos. Looks just about right to me on the Hi-Levels. Nice job.
Always enjoyable seeing these beautiful works of art! Passenger rail modeling has really come a long way in just a decade. [Y][8D]
Antonio
It has taken a good turn for detail and your work has contributed to the progress also. All of us have enjoyed seeing the Alclad process and learning from your experience. Thanks for sharing.
CZ
This is the lounge with some passengers installed. The tint is not what I wanted but will get an addtional coat to darken.
Matt
No problem.\
The one below is outside light and shows the tinting on the tail coach car.
CZ
CZ, is that UP Dome car Brass? It looks too sharp to be a Walthers. [wow]
It is a Walthers!! I do have some in brass but after the Alclad tint was on the windows, it just seemed to look better overall.
Thanks for the comment. Alclad seems to do the trick in tinting.
CZ
Thank you for your encouragement, CalZephyr,
But, imho, it’s all of our efforts combined that really help. Model railroad manufacturers regularly check this and a slew of other forums (inspite of the occasional “battles”) to check what modelers are buying, creating, modifying, thinking, etc.,.
Although I don’t gamble, I’m sure one would win a bet stating that Walthers’ reps have viewed this thread!
I’m just happy that passenger rail modeling is alive and well. As much as it’s criticized, Walthers really gave passenger modeling a big shot in the arm when the newly tooled passenger cars in Budd, Pullman Standard, and ACF flavors hit the market back in the early 2000s. Before that, the best plastic RTR Budds we had were generic Rivarossi units.
Jason Shron and his crew gave us another big boost with the very successful Canadian which raised the bar even higher.
Although I’m certain that the younger “under 30” generation will soon be pushing for the more modern equipment (Bombardier, Siemens and those weird “M8” things from Kawasaki [:P]), I hope that interest in the pre-Amtrak era and the early Amtrak era remains strong and hopefully continues to grow.
Should be out now. I got mine in the mail yesterday.
Thanks for the heads up Matt,
Finishing up on the 2 Step-Down/Up Coaches just in time to start the Diner.
Step-Down Coach, Diner and Tail Car…
I received mine about three weeks ago.
CZ
CZ,
Glad to see this thread again.
Please forgive this questions as I think you answered it before on another thread but I don’t know which one.
What technique, materials, or equipment do you use to produce the antimacassars on your seats? They look excellent! Are these decals or stickers? I’m looking for a simpler method as I find painting anitmacassars quite tedious.
A bunch of us were using the Trakworks kits available direct or from dealers. I got mine from Railmaster:
Beautiful work, just stunning! The realism is top notch [Y].
Happy modeling!
Don.
The Diner kit is out and I was hoping you might post some more pictures of your work and progress on the El Cap Train.
I started on three coach cars this week and will post some pictures when they are done.
CZ
This was my initial post…there’s more pictures posted last week at the bottom of page 1 including the Diner. Having issues with lights working after squeezing the cars back together. When they all work I’ll post some night pictures on the layout.
I put regular bulbs in the lower level at first, but didn’t like the way they looked with the Walther’s LED lighting kits. Now I’m reinstalling LED’s instead or both on some cars.
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This was my initial post…there’s more pictures posted last week at the bottom of page 1 including the Diner. Having issues with lights working after squeezing the cars back together. When they all work I’ll post some night pictures on the layout.
I put regular bulbs in the lower level at first, but didn’t like the way they looked with the Walther’s LED lighting kits. Now I’m reinstalling LED