Pieter, this sounds like a great approach. I will try it first before I attempt the plans I wrote about in my previous email. - Earl Henry, Nashville In a message dated 6/4/2012 4:54:28 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Those protrusions are to keep the window glass straight. Said glass is far from clear and very thick, further limiting the width of any interior and making it hard to see as well. I would suggest removing the protrusions and the glass from the the roof (leaving the "glass" just above the window line), adding thin clear plastic glass, and lightly gluing the roof on once the interior is done. Or you can add blocks to the roof above the rest room areas and fasten the roof with long screws. I'm planning this approach, but haven't finished a car (yet). Pieter E. Roos --- On Mon, 6/4/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Rachel, one problem with doing an interior for the AM heavyweight coaches is that there are a number of protrusions that stick up from the floor. I think all of these are for the purpose of helping lock the roof with window materials to the body. But this means you have to cut out small sections of whatever you use for the floor material. I am experimenting right now with a floor made from matboard. I have cut out holes for the protrusions. Then I am going to try to attach the Palace car seats in place on the floor with S people in most of the seats. I have 8 cars that I want to do. I may also try to put a coach interior made for the AM Budd coaches into one of the heavyweights. I realize I will need to drill up from the floor into the seats to make room for the floor protrusions. I also see that the heavyweights do not have room to place the Palace Car Company seats or the AM coach interirors without trimming the outsides. I am trying to do this with a small Dremel tool. I have still got to paint the seats and the people so it may be a couple of weeks or so before I will know how well any of this works out. But if it does work out, I will be glad to post photos. - Earl Henry Nashville, TN In a message dated 6/4/2012 4:33:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: --- In [email protected]_ (mip://094a9320/mc/[email protected]) , "rcovington92" <rcovington92@...> wrote: > > Good Morning all. > Does anyone happen to make interior kits for American Models 72' heavyweight passenger cars? Would be nice to have clear windows and see lil' folks riding inside. > > Thanks Rachel Covington > Rachel, To the best of my knowledge, nobody makes an interior kit for the AM 72' coaches. But... I've used Grandt Line standard gauge coach (#4006) seats for a combine project I did about 10 years ago. _http://grandtline.com/model_railroad/detail%20parts/s_scale_detail_parts.ht m_ (http://grandtline.com/model_railroad/detail%20parts/s_scale_detail_parts.htm) _http://grandtline.com/images/s%20scale/4006.jpg_ (http://grandtline.com/images/s%20scale/4006.jpg) The down side they're a little old-timy and they're sold in packs of 4. Some assembly required. It took 4 packs to do my combine with a shortend passenger compartment. A coach might take 10-12 packs. However, Palace Car Company sells a pack of "streamliner" coach seats (#5031) and they come 36 to a pack. One piece resin castings that could work in a heavyweight coach. _http://www.palacecarco.com/products.php?cat=27_ (http://www.palacecarco.com/products.php?cat=27) Rich G(ajnak)
