Detailing my MTH PRR passenger cars Update #2

Man,  that's TERRIFIC! 

The fabric, and as Dave said above - the wood 'panelling' looks classy.

That's amazing, you're going to have to put a tiny camera in there and broadcast the interior just so folks can see it!

Thats some really nice work. Makes for a very realistic looking atmosphere. Maybe someday I will be brave enough to try that.

Great craftsmanship.

Nice job, could be candidate for OGR magazine article.  As we said in the Navy..4-0 job!

Steve, Lady and Tex

Very impressive.  Looks like the real thing.  I would enjoy hearing in detain how you did the rugs/carpets and other details.  The above poster is correct, you need a way to show how good the interior looks.  

man the wood paneling is sooo,Think I'llcopy that on a streamlined observation  coming up in the pipeline. Did you use a specific cloth pattern for the rugs, and what program and pictures did you use for the furniture wraps?  Looks so good I've got to try that, Congrats!

Really nice! Master craftsman comes to mind. I don't know if I could ever accomplish that; but I may try. I have been saving a huge pack of veneers that my Father in Law had for clocks. I'm wondering if they would be thin enough for a project like this. 

Thank you all for your fine comments. To answer some of the questions I will supply some more details.

The items listed:

Wood panels

Carpet

Dresser fronts

Paintings on walls

Are all printed on 20# 95% white paper. Short items on 8 ½ X 11 long carpet runners on 8 ½ X 14.

All resizing of images was done in Microsoft Word. I have found that this is the best program for resizing images. There is far less distortion of the image than in any of the other image programs I have.

All the images were printed on an old HP 952C inkjet printer set to best quality.

The paper is then attached to the items using Avery permanent Glue Stic once this dries it does not come off.

I have attached the images I used in case some may want to use them.

Thanks again:

Nelson

Very nice Nelson!

I used some June Tailor Printable Fabric Sheets when I did the carpet in my Seaboard Sun-Lounge car:

http://store.junetailor.com/st...te-4-sheetspack.aspx

I got it at Walmart, but I would think most fabric stores would carry it also.

Very easy to cut and glue down with white glue.

Well...... there is my project for the next few weeks/months!  Thanks!  I just saved those images and will be doing the same!  Your cars are looking AMAZING!  

thanks for posting the files, I saved them & will use them in my pennsy cars this spring-

Posted additional update with pictures and video at the top of this post.

Beautiful job, Nelson. Very impressive.

Nelson, are the passenger cars 60' RailKing?  I have a set of RailKing Texas passenger cars and wondered how difficult it is to take car apart to put passengers into them.

Steve, Lady and Tex

TexSpecial:

The cars I am working on are MTH Premier 70' 20-65043 & 66043. All the MTH passenger cars I have screw from the bottom. 2 screws at each end almost under the trucks and 3-4 screws in the center of the car. They then use 3-4 screws to hold in the passenger section. Hope this may help.

Beautiful job Nelson; I can't wait to see the dining car!

Can you provide your source of dinnerware, silverware and candles?

Bob,

Here is the link to how I do candles from when I did my NYC set.

Link to NYC cars

This time I am going to try and make small lamps for the large tables and candles for the smaller ones. If it works pictures will follow. If it does not you will not hear of it again.

I will post source of plates when I get them to see if they are useable.

Nelson,

Incredible! Your ideas and craftsmanship are great! Thanks for sharing.

New update on the dinning car

Received the dinnerware sets here is the link to where I found them… Link Here:

Contact the seller for multiple purchase discount.

I held them down by placing them on Masking tape sticky side up so I could airbrush them without them blowing away.

I then took and removed the soup bowl from the rest of the group with an X-acto knife. I then turned bowl over and glued them to the center of the dinner plates.

Sorry my camera does not do well on close-ups this is the best I could do.  

Thanks for the link. I just ordered 23 sets. Now I hope that I can even come near your level of modeling.  This will be on a shelf until I'm further along on the layout.

Thanks!

Nelson...thanks for this thread...it is a great inspiration and thanks to all of the contributions so far....  wonderful pictures and ideas here!

Alan