Large Scale Central

Passenger benches for the Toenail Ridge depot

Made up a master pair of ends in styrene: (should have taken pix before painting!)

…then cast a silicone mould…

1/32nd aircraft plywood cut into strips for bench slats

Made a jig using 2 weights…

and finished up with…

Benches in place on platform…

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Great job!

And it rather makes me appreciate that junky old stock Pola park bench kit I got off ebay… All that work, vs 6 plastic benches for $5?.. Even if I already used the side pieces from 2 of them for combine seats and lost one end.

Nice detail Phil. I’ll need to make some for my station