coach seats sources?

Not many, if at all. The question came up (well, actually it was the entire subject) in this thread about equipping Williams coaches that were made with window silhouettes.

---PCJ

Have you tried Q car comany or Keil Line products?

In addition to Keil-Line (Wlathers castings in metal and plastic) and Q-car (metal castings (mainly seating), one might also inquire with Delta Models - resin detail parts catalog for O scale passenger cars.

Deltamodels@aol.com

Thanks fellows for the replies.  Came up dry on contemporary seats.  And even the old style ones are quite expensive, over $1 per seat making filling even one car expensive.  Looks like I will be scratch building them from styrene.

A $1/per casting is actually pretty cheap.  I charge at least that myself when I'm making castings on commission.

But, here's a thought for you - if you're going to scartch together something from styrene, make 1 perfect one of each item, make RTV molds, and cast as many as you need of each for yourself from resin.

I make them myself.  Buy 36" long pieces of square basswood of various cros-ssections at my LHS (or similar shaped, but hardwood, at Home Depot or Lowes), and shape and glue them into a very long bench of the right crossectional size.  Paint it, then use a bandsaw to cut it into sections the right length.  I now have to paint only one side of each bench to complete it to install.

Lee,  would you have any construction pictures of making these ?

Thanks,  Doug