Re: Busy C&S HOn3 passenger car shops
Posted by drgwcs on Mar 24, 2025; 2:09pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Busy-C-S-HOn3-passenger-car-shops-tp20594p20619.html
Pseudo 13 RPO/Baggage.
Fair warning- for the purist this is not quite right but as a kitbash I think it works. A while back I found a Labelle D&RGW RPO that was partially assembled at a great price. The sides were done and the roof rounded nicely. (The roof is a bit long for C&S but I wasn't going to mess with a nicely rounded roof) Turns out it would have been closer to start with an uncompleted kit but I'm reasonably happy with it. I cut apart the sides to get them better in line with where the doors were. I also removed the plate along the bottom edge that had been glued there. The biggest issue in this is the windows- had I done a build from the ground up I would have corrected them but decided not to as I questioned if I could get them to look right at this stage of assembly.
The green marks are where I sectioned the sides- It is not exact but any further was pushing my luck for structural stability. The same goes for extending the doors up into the letterboard- with how this was sectioned it would have had issues.
To the inside to hold the car together I added some thin scribed siding- this gave me an excuse to model an interior. It is rather cobbled together with parts. The fish racks and the guards on the sliding doors were made from modified parts of Atlas lumber piles. I added some styrene strips along the edges on the fish racks after a quick sand on the top to remove the wood texture. (I think this would work for fish racks in Sn3 too)
The interior got a desk, a hopper and a sink with water tank. The sink was a random part I had- I think it may have been an ashtray out of an IHC interior kit?? A porch spindle with an industrial lampshade might be a good starting point too. I added a piece of flat styrene and a square piece above that for the tank
The RPO detailing is a bit basic. I did not add the magazine tacks that sat above the bag sorting. I may add some racks for the bags but for now they sit on the floor. The sorting bins are too big but were made from stacked rusty stumps window frames.
All told the interior is not really visible and a bit rudimentary but works
I do have a few things to do yet- I still need to decal and dullcoat but it is raining and humid out- (I live in the south and that will fog dullcoat and glosscoat real quick)- I was going to do them all at once for ease. I also need to add the brakewheels.- besides these three I have two others in progress- what in the world is the matter with me?????
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Pseudo 13 RPO/Baggage.
Fair warning- for the purist this is not quite right but as a kitbash I think it works. A while back I found a Labelle D&RGW RPO that was partially assembled at a great price. The sides were done and the roof rounded nicely. (The roof is a bit long for C&S but I wasn't going to mess with a nicely rounded roof) Turns out it would have been closer to start with an uncompleted kit but I'm reasonably happy with it. I cut apart the sides to get them better in line with where the doors were. I also removed the plate along the bottom edge that had been glued there. The biggest issue in this is the windows- had I done a build from the ground up I would have corrected them but decided not to as I questioned if I could get them to look right at this stage of assembly.
The green marks are where I sectioned the sides- It is not exact but any further was pushing my luck for structural stability. The same goes for extending the doors up into the letterboard- with how this was sectioned it would have had issues.
To the inside to hold the car together I added some thin scribed siding- this gave me an excuse to model an interior. It is rather cobbled together with parts. The fish racks and the guards on the sliding doors were made from modified parts of Atlas lumber piles. I added some styrene strips along the edges on the fish racks after a quick sand on the top to remove the wood texture. (I think this would work for fish racks in Sn3 too)
The interior got a desk, a hopper and a sink with water tank. The sink was a random part I had- I think it may have been an ashtray out of an IHC interior kit?? A porch spindle with an industrial lampshade might be a good starting point too. I added a piece of flat styrene and a square piece above that for the tank
The RPO detailing is a bit basic. I did not add the magazine tacks that sat above the bag sorting. I may add some racks for the bags but for now they sit on the floor. The sorting bins are too big but were made from stacked rusty stumps window frames.
All told the interior is not really visible and a bit rudimentary but works
I do have a few things to do yet- I still need to decal and dullcoat but it is raining and humid out- (I live in the south and that will fog dullcoat and glosscoat real quick)- I was going to do them all at once for ease. I also need to add the brakewheels.- besides these three I have two others in progress- what in the world is the matter with me?????
Jim Curran
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