UPDATED 12-31-15 COMBINE CAR AND VIDEO ////SPICING UP THE NEW LIONEL ESE 21 INCH PASSENGER CARS (PICTURES)

Excellent work. Looks great! It adds so much depth and warmth.

VERY nice!

Now that's a big improvement!

Alex~

Are the figures all the same manufacturer?

thanks

Bill

Alex;

Now THAT is a detailed interior - a real work of art. What time does the bar open!!! Can't wait to see what you do with the other cars.

Alex,

It looks great. Did you add people or is that the amount in each car?

Mike

Brilliant!!! Just a few colors added and it makes the interior pop. 

That looks way better man, good job! 

That looks excellent Alex!  Great job! (of course.)

Nice job.. 

Alex, by special permission of the Vice President - Mechanical, your personal record has been awarded an additional ten merits for superior realistic decoration of the interior of your passenger cars.  This is a highly unusual event, as the Company normally allows a maximum of ten merits to accumulate on any personal record.  Well done!

I think you may on to something there.  That is cool.

Looks good!  What information have you found for interior colors of the prototypes?  I'd like to do something similar with my K-Line set.

Nice.  That looks like the original K-Line interior before you started.  Is this the extruded aluminum K-Line car with updated windows and trucks, or an original Lionel plastic car?

Nice job Alex!

Alex,  great job. I'm in the process of adding some complete interiors to several coaches with the 2 lite bulbs and decals of people in the windows. They used to be fine but not any more!  What people did you use?   I notice that MTH has several "passsenger" packages in their Ready to Run catelog.  I also need to acquire/make seats, tables, counters etc.  Any suggestions??  Thanks, Merry Christmas and GREAT JOB!  

Alex, What a fine job but we'd expect no less from you. The "plain vanilla" look of the stock interiors is unappealing but Lionel made it relatively easy to get at the interiors and improve them.

In response to a question raised above, actually those do not look like K-Line interiors, which came with a massive number of holes in the floor for the interior furnishings to be fitted to and the furnishings were usually in color rather than a plain finish. But I see your point and think that these interiors, however plain, are an improvement. And the ESE set being shown is definitely ABS, not metal.

A vast improvement, to be sure!

Talk about exquisite & elegant detail Alex, you seem to outdo yourself with each additional project you undertake. 

You da MAN ALEX!!!!!  Well done!!!!  Keep up the good work.

Alex,

Will you be bringing these to TrainStock ?

Kevin 

Nice Alex, that is one reason I liked the older cars. Not sure why Lionel cheapened up their sets in this regard. 

Thanks for posting.

"Not sure why Lionel cheapened up their sets in this regard"

Probably nothing personal, but my guess would to keep the b****ing about price/cost to a minimum�� 

Charlie

Wow, Wow, Wow...Amazing detail, amazing ideas....Thanks for posting those beautiful pictures....Your Talent is awesome...Happy New Year

Really very nice. Is there anything you can do about the door on the end of the observation car? The NYC ESE observation cars din't have doors on the ends, as far as I remember.

Charlie posted:

"Not sure why Lionel cheapened up their sets in this regard"

Probably nothing personal, but my guess would to keep the b****ing about price/cost to a minimum�� 

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Charlie, I can see where you're going.  But honestly, I doubt that had anything to do with it, in the sense that Lionel doesn't give a hoot if we think something is too expensive or not.  They most likely opted to go with the bland interior w/o passengers because it lowered THEIR internal cost.

David

P.S.  Alex, your customization of the interiors makes for a night-and-day difference. Simply spectacular!!!

ezmike posted:

... Did you add people or is that the amount in each car?

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I was under the impression that these cars ship from the factory with ZERO passengers.  It's a step down for sure from Lionel's treatment of the interiors of their aluminum passenger cars since they phased out passenger silhouettes in the windows around the turn of the century, IIRC.  

But the corporate party line will emphasize cheaper consumer cost (vs. the Chinese providing interior details as standard fare) AND the ease with which the interiors can be accessed so consumers can make these enhancements on a DIY basis.  Don't be surprised to also hear an inference that each modeler may want their passenger cars populated differently,  so "We thought we'd leave that decision up to each consumer."  

David 

Hello everyone,

Thanks very much for the nice comment's !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ron, i agree it does add a lot of depth and warmth

Bill, the figures are all from China, i use the cheapest because you can't really see them.

Mike, i added all the figures, it doesn't come with any.

Tom, your post meant a lot to me, thank you very much!!!!!!

JR Junction, i have the original ESE cars, so i just tried to use the same colors.

John, i use the cheapest people i can find, because you can't really see them. They are from China.

Kevin, those cars won't leave me basement, lol So they won't be coming to train Stock

Hot Water, i don't think there's anything i can do about the doors. It might get very involved

Once again I thank you all for the input and great comment's

PS I will update this thread once i get a coach car complete.

Thanks,

Alex

Nice job and it really adds to the car. I will have to do the same this with my Atlas CZ cars.

Rocky Mountaineer posted:

ezmike posted:

... Did you add people or is that the amount in each car?

...

 

I was under the impression that these cars ship from the factory with ZERO passengers.  It's a step down for sure from Lionel's treatment of the interiors of their aluminum passenger cars since they phased out passenger silhouettes in the windows around the turn of the century, IIRC.  

But the corporate party line will emphasize cheaper consumer cost (vs. the Chinese providing interior details as standard fare) AND the ease with which the interiors can be accessed so consumers can make these enhancements on a DIY basis.  Don't be surprised to also hear an inference that each modeler may want their passenger cars populated differently,  so "We thought we'd leave that decision up to each consumer."  

David 

David; 

That was exactly what Mike Reagan said at the York demo I attended in October. There would be no right answer - someone would say too many bodies, someone else, too few. He did point out that Lionel was going to offer sets of passengers, I think next year. He then touted how easy it would be to do a DIY fix since there were, I think, two screws holding the top to the car. 

Alex,

Don't blame you - but they would be really cool running the Red North & South the long loop over the new bridges.

Kevin

Alex

Which people did you use? I added both K-line and RMT Beepeople (they are the same) to most of my K-line 15" cars months ago. The Golden Gate people are smaller and less detailed but they fit nicely in the upper seating of the Vista Domes.

After seeing what you did I should have painted the interiors before I did them. Too much work to unglue he figures now. I'll have to do it to my 8 Pennsylvania Era of Modernism cars. 

Mike

It doesn't get much more realistic than this. Great Job.

Great job Alex.  The red does the car well. Looks great.

Well done Alex.

Alex looks great!

An amazing difference, well done Alex looks great

WOW...makes a big difference!  The interior looks a lot like the old K-line mold without all those holes in the floor.  You did a great job Alex!

Alan

Wow---that's impressive

Great idea

Joe S