ATSF waycars almost complete

Incredible work Malcom! I hope to be as good as you one day. Right now my girls take up a lot of my time. I have stuff started and that's it. Your great attention to detail and craftsmanship give me something to strive for.

Ralph

Chiffon, available at most fabric stores in a variety of colors, makes for decent screens in O scale.

Matt,

Thanks, but I tried it and it still looked too big in that small space.

Malcolm

Nicely done.  The attention to details makes your creations shine.

I have had several questions about the screens. Here is how I made these.

I used "old" ladies hose. By old I mean not the new stuff. My wife had some old hose that belonged to her mother and they are very different from the new ones.

I stretch them over cardboard and paint them aluminum, after they dry I glue the pre-painted frames to them with ACC. The frames are .015" styrene. When the glue is dry I cut them with a new single edge razor blade. They are mounted to the body with Microscale decal film.

Wow! Fantastic detail.

Is that an MTH caboose that you're working with?

Malcolm,

That caboose is a beauty. Congratulations! I am so glad you decided to stay with the world of O-scale.....

Question: How do you build the rivets? Is it a wheel, decals or special strips?

Thanks

Yves

Experiment with silk screen material (Model Railroader Magazine, September 1996) and Lipton pyramid tea bags....color with a Magic Marker, felt-tip pen or a Sharpie...doubling the material helps with the effect too. 

Attach the colored screen material to clear styrene sheet using spray adhesive then build the frame around the edge of the styrene.  A bit more labor intensive but the effect is more convincing because the 'screen' is nearly flush with the frame instead of behind it. 

Nice tip there, Matt.  And, good for a cup of blueberry pomegranate tea, too!