It gets better when the passengers do not have skirts.
I recall early streamlied cars eventualy having the skirts removed due to
maintenance problems.. Everything showed underneath. Dirt, oil etc..
John Armstrong
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob McCarthy
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 2:31 AM
Subject: {S-Scale List} Underbody details are a matter of choice, unless your
cars look nekked<G>
Howdy!
However, if the passenger car is without skirts they certainly look a
wee bit bare. Also,
with the advent of multi deck layouts (SEE Tony Koester, DESIGNING & BUILDING
MULTI-DECK Model Railroads). Tony spoke on the topic at the NASG in Duluth
this summer.
So if your passenger cars do not have skirts and you can see their
underside from the side, you might want to complete the car or not - depends on
the individual modeler.
As a smaller advertisement, we do have what you need for those naked
breezy passenger car bottoms. How are you going to explain to your passengers
that they will get no water or light on their trip on your railroad?<G>
Thanks,
Bob McCarthy
THE SUPPLY CAR, LLC
--- On Sat, 11/27/10, David Dewey <[email protected]> wrote:
From: David Dewey <[email protected]>
Subject: {S-Scale List} Underbody details??
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, November 27, 2010, 10:13 PM
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.
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