Modeling business cars for the C&O and Pere Marquette
sure to the sun. The bottom portions of the bodies were lightly sprayed with Polly Scale Grimy Black and Dirt. I used Grimy Black and Dirt on the un- derframes but gave them a heavier coat.
The trucks were hand-painted to
avoid painting the electrical contacts. They were painted with Polly Scale Roof Brown, the brake lines with Grimy Black, springs with Rust, and a touch of Oily Black on the bearings.
Interior details I wanted to detail the inside of the cars with more than lights and people even though some of the effort and work might not be visible after the body was put in place. Old photographs of car interiors often show large photo- graph murals on the partitions, so I found a few pictures of C&O and PM locomotives, a swing bridge and a sta- tion. And, since these are business cars for use by the railroad, I also used two different C&O logos, a picture of Chessie, and the PM logo. I looked at the window arrangement on the body and selected the most visible locations for the photos and people. After meas-
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chantment Blue); vases with lavender and pink flowers were placed in the center of the table for the VIP execu- tive wedding party on board the car. After the paint and photos were dry, I positioned a number of people in limit- ed but visible locations. Unfortunately, there is no “leg room” for the figures at the rear of the car, so their legs had to be cut and reattached as if they were
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resting on an ottoman or completely removed.
Lighting I purchased two interior
lighting
kits. Kato No. 7-501 has conventional incandescent bulbs, and Kato No. 7- 502 has white LEDs. The lighting kits come with two peel-and-stick reflective pieces of aluminum foil/film, two “vee-
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Since the lighting kit is made for a full length passenger car, it must be shortened for the business cars to take into account the ob- servation platform. A razor saw was used to remove one section (above and right) of one of the lenses for each car. (Do not re- move the mounting points where the lens is cut.) Four of the mounting points are used to snap the lens into the mounting boxes, or lugs, on the bottom of the roof casting. Note the orientation of the lenses.
uring the wall spaces, I sized the pho- tos appropriately. Then I pasted them to the walls with clear Polyseamseal All-Purpose Adhesive & Caulk in One® (manufactured by Henkel Corporation, Avon, Ohio). It doesn’t discolor or run the ink from my printer, as white glue does, and it is easy to clean up and dries quickly.
I also painted a few
chairs with C&O Enchantment Blue. In the C&O car I glued papers to the table for a business meeting. In the PM car I put place settings for ten (thin slices of styrene rod painted C&O En-
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