My fiancé bought me a green unlettered AMS combine! So of course I set about ripping it to pieces. As Bart would say “it had a date with the screwdriver of destiny”.
I recently did a coach much the same way except it was lettered so I stripped and repainted it as well. For the record Floquil Pullman Green was a dead match. Sucks they are going away.
So, I remove the lights and track pickups and add a globe style light I found on ebay. I wire it for battery power using a LiIon 7.4v battery and add a switch and charge jack. I also add kadee couplers. I do minimal work to the interior because you really can’t see that much. I paint the seats a wine color, add figures and put a shade on the bathroom window. I did put a wood floor in the baggage section though because I want to be able to leave the doors open. I think the biggest thing I do is add a tar paper roof.
At any rate here’s some pics:
These (the little white dots) are the light globes. When lit they have nice glow.
Charge jack and switch.
Some boxes I built around the battery and schtuff I wanted to hide. You can also see the wood floor. It’s a piece of scribed wood I ordered from micro mark. I cut the styrene floor out and used it as a template for the wood.
Overview of the whole interior:
Here’s a start to the roof. It’s just 2" masking tape. I buy good tape to do this because I don’t want it to come loose.
More done.
I need to paint the roof and letter it.
More to come…
Terry
