Just as side note, if you pull out the green window strip you will find a clear one in there with it.
Also I have made up interiors for these cars that slide in from one end. Don’t know how to get the pix
from my phone to this site.
Kevin
I kinda like the green windows
If I remember the streamliners right here on the Santa Fe San Diegan, they did indeed have a greenish tint.
Greg
Rich Niemeyer said:
I kinda like the green windows
Mee too
Yes, the green windows are cool. But, after installing seats and people you just have to go clear(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif).
Why?
whoops…
Rich Niemeyer said:
So far, I’ve been fortunate, my ends are coming off easy. I’ll try to look up your article on installing a drum head. Could be a fun project. Just finished the first car. It looks great, except now my youngest granddaughter will want to know "where the people are ". Guess I’ll be going in again!
It didn’t see it mentioned and don’t know if it interests you or not. However if you decide to take them back apart and would like to lower them. You can slide the whole bottom floor out of it’s grooves and then slide it back in on top of them. This drops the car about 1/4" I believe and really gives them a nice look.
" Rooster " said:
Rich Niemeyer said:
So far, I’ve been fortunate, my ends are coming off easy. I’ll try to look up your article on installing a drum head. Could be a fun project. Just finished the first car. It looks great, except now my youngest granddaughter will want to know "where the people are ". Guess I’ll be going in again!It didn’t see it mentioned and don’t know if it interests you or not. However if you decide to take them back apart and would like to lower them. You can slide the whole bottom floor out of it’s grooves and then slide it back in on top of them. This drops the car about 1/4" I believe and really gives them a nice look.
Yes, that really does improve the look. Although on some models (certain production runs) you have to make sure that the under-body decorations aren’t hanging so low that they catch on stuff. I didn’t have that problem, but George Schreyer mentions this on his site.
Thanks Rooster. I tried to slide the bottoms out of the upper body, but they wouldn’t budge. David suggested I also do that to make installing the new led strips easier. But to no avail. They simply wouldn’t move. I’ve completed three of the four with windows, and they look great. The fifth is a baggage car I need to examine closely to see if adding leds would make any difference. Not sure there is any openings for light to be visible. I like the idea of lowering the cars, but as David points out, the undercarriage items of my cars (about 1999 vintage), are already low and dropping them lower could be problematic. I suppose I could remove the stuff and cut them down some, but the problem is still trying to remove the bottoms again. I’m working on the lounge car now and will try to pull the bottom, but I doubt it will. The bigger problem will be to figure out how to illuminate the side markers and end light with the leds. Any ideas?
Rich, there are other ways to lower the Streamliner cars.
For more info., see “My Chosen Method” in article hosted for me by Greg E. on his Web site, title: "Aristo Streamliners - Lowering & Body Mounting Kadee 907 Centerset Couplers
-Ted
Thanks Ted. I’ve bookmarked the site for future reference. Sounds like a winter project!
Now that you have lights you need seats.
…and passengers! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Yea, empty interiors look kind of, well, empty.
Rich Niemeyer said:
Thanks Rooster. I tried to slide the bottoms out of the upper body, but they wouldn’t budge. David suggested I also do that to make installing the new led strips easier. But to no avail. They simply wouldn’t move. I’ve completed three of the four with windows, and they look great. The fifth is a baggage car I need to examine closely to see if adding leds would make any difference. Not sure there is any openings for light to be visible. I like the idea of lowering the cars, but as David points out, the undercarriage items of my cars (about 1999 vintage), are already low and dropping them lower could be problematic. I suppose I could remove the stuff and cut them down some, but the problem is still trying to remove the bottoms again. I’m working on the lounge car now and will try to pull the bottom, but I doubt it will. The bigger problem will be to figure out how to illuminate the side markers and end light with the leds. Any ideas?
clear plastic rod run from the LED to the side markers will work, think fiber optics. I made LED circuits with individual LEDs for each light. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Thanks. Actually, I managed to get them to illuminate by extending the light ribbon to the very end of the car. The exterior lights look good. Some of the comments made on this thread have encouraged removing the green frosted windows and installing seats and people. But I really light the frosted green look I think. I’ll keep them as they are. However, I’m starting on my heavyweights as soon as I get the warm white leds from the supplier, AND I do plan to install people in them. I think they will look good based what I’ve seen posted here. Just gotta find or make seated people
The USA Trains people are liked by many and in pretty good scale.
Greg
Thanks Greg, I’ll look into them.
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Bumping this back up for Pete and just using the search feature.
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