Ed,
About 20 years ago, I decided to scratchbuild a corrugated side pullman
using the plans in Mainline Modeller for the D&RGW Prospector cars (also
used by the C&O and later purchased from the Rio Grande by the D&H). As
with you, the greates obstacle was the roof and getting the correct
curvature to match the plans. At that time I used some Northeastern
refridgerator car roof stock which matched the larger radius curve of the
roof and glued in 1/16" x 5/32" wood strips vertically into the edge groove
of the roof stock. Behind the wood strip I added another strip of wood for
reinforcement. That was a block of 3/32" x 1/8" strip wood laid
horizontally. After the glue dried, I shaped the smaller radius curves at
the edge of the roof by hand using a sanding block and a template made from
sytrene. The results were quite good. I added photos of the car in the
group photo section titled "Scratchbulit Corrugated Pullman".
The Northeastern roof stock is no longer made though I have seen some on
Ebay lately. The epilogue to my story is that after I did all of the hard
work on this car, Wayne Hills came out with chrome plated car sides for
these cars designed to fit the AM coaches. This made it easier to create a
whole train of them, but i will at least have one car with a removable rof
and detailed interior.
Good Luck,
Bob Frascella
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:40 AM, somothrguy2003 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> One of the reasons I switched to S scale was I knew that it would be a
> good place to test
> my skills as a modeler. HO was getting to be too easy to excel in!
>
> I've decided to take on a formidable modeling task: I'd like to
> scratchbuild some of the
> smoothside passenger cars that the Lackawanna ordered from Pullman, ACF,
> and Budd for
> the brand new Phoebe Snow which debuted in 1949. My biggest obstacle right
> now is
> getting the cars' roofs correct. I would use the AM smooth side car kits as
> a starting point,
> but the roof's contour on those kits is not quite correct. Thus, I need to
> start from the very
> beginning with these cars. Might there be anyone out there with suggestions
> as to how to
> get the roof contour correct?
>
> Ed Kenny
> Modeling the DL&W in S scale circa 9/29/54
>
>
>
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