It depends on how much abition I have at the time, particularly on an AM boxcar.
No ambition: Leave things alone. Low ambition: Rearrage the brake blobs into their correct positions. Medium ambition: Replace the brake blobs with a Grandt Line AB brake set and add the rigging. High ambition: Grandt Line AB brake gear, rigging and plumbing. Now if I was really ambitious, which I'm not, I'd replace the K brake apparatus (outlawed in the early '40s I believe) on SHS cars with the AB system. Although, I have replaced the K brake on AM wood cabeese with the Grandt AB. With the tool boxes removed the underbody brake gear is pretty evident. Rich G. --- In [email protected], "David Dewey" <djde...@...> wrote: > > Hi all, > Interesting comments recently on underbody details. So I will chime in with > my thoughts. All the pictures I've seen, and all the layouts I've been to, > have been of trains running on tracks, and mostly viewed from slightly above > the tracks. What's under "the skirt" is not seen. Unlike car shows, we don't > usually display our railroad cars with mirrors under them to show off the > details. While it is definately a challenge, and fun for many, to > super-detail the underside of a car, unless you're going to model a wreck > with a car on it's side, who's ever going to see it?? > I'm not "disin'" those who do so, I admire the attention to detail, the > research, and resourcefullness of those that do take the time to do all that > fine work. I just think that a mass-produced, RTR car really doesn't need > all that stuff to be a presentable model to run on a layout. > Yeah, I'll probably never be a rivet counter! :) > Now where's my shovel and those bomb-shelter plans?? > S' > David D. > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
