When you have old cars and time on your hands, out comes the paint and the fun begins. This is the first of four cars I plan to make.
Greg
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Nice work!
Very nice, Greg! I look forward to seeing the rest of the cars. The silhouettes are a nice touch. Are your markers and interior lights powered off the track? I didn't see a pickup under the car. I made a set of three Marx passenger cars a couple of years ago, and used LED markers on the observation, similar to yours. Mine are powered from AAA batteries in the car, since they are used on the windup layout (no track power).
Good job, thanks for sharing!
I like it, Greg. As mentioned, your lighting and silhouettes make it even more distinctive.
Greg, thanks for posting the pictures of the car's interior. Nice design and execution; it's a lot more elegant than what I did! I really like the paint scheme, too - it looks very nice.
This is the observation of my set:
...and the set of all 3 passenger cars:
As they say, great minds think alike... the "porthole" windows on the caboose body just begs for LED markers! Your interior lighting and silhouettes are a very nice touch, wish I would have thought of that...
Looking forward to seeing more of your cars!
I am two years behind, need to get one more made. Each car name is the first and middle name of a grand kid and the car number is the day/month they were born. Need to get off my keester and get Liam Michael done.
Steve
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Originally Posted by Steve "Papa" Eastman:
I am two years behind, need to get one more made. Each car name is the first and middle name of a grand kid and the car number is the day/month they were born. Need to get off my keester and get Liam Michael done.
Steve
Great Idea Steve,
But I am behind by 5 and haven't started yet!
Did you do them from scratch?
Dennis
They are New Marx Canadian Pacific passenger cars I picked up cheap. They had been exposed to some bad lighting and the color on one side of each car was faded very badly. I painted the tops black, then made the graphics using Excel. They were then printed on high gloss self adhesive sticker paper, cut out and applied to the ends and sides. Pretty simple as long as I used all straight lines.
I attached the format I used below. One graphic did one side and one end, so two were required for each car.
Steve
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Thank you very much Steve!
I will start looking for some new cars to acquire that I can rework and customize for my Grandkids!
Greg
What an eyeful and an interesting thread and James, I like that new stanchion on the observation. I know from what I have done with postwar equipment it takes patience and skill to do what all of you folks have accomplished and my hats off to all of you..
Bruce
