Hi Bill; Wow - strong start for a first scratch building effort! I have certainly made worse....
The amusing part is that compared to the sides, those composite ends would not not have been too hard. Neatly cutting out the center of the AM door !? I think that falls into the "only slightly harder than scratch" category, but many of us have been there too. Really nice work. Ready to do the X23 boxcars and R7 reefers? All basically the same design. Pieter E. Roos --- On Mon, 10/22/12, Bill Lane <[email protected]> wrote: [Attachment(s) from Bill Lane included below] Tom, When compared to the real thing the shortcomings of my models are instantly obvious. It is an early car without much steel used to make it. I have yet another K7a built for Larry Sokol by an unknown custom builder. It is really good and much more correct but it is oh SO light… UGH! I was eyeing it this morning to see how and where I could add weight to it without killing it. The car is completely sealed. It is back in the box because I did not have an idea hit me. I am probably going to add that car to my page this week. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! See my layout progess at:http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm Custom Train Parts Design http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! http://www.prrths.com http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL Attachment(s) from Bill Lane 2 of 2 Photo(s) K7a 3 4 View.jpg IMG_3856.JPG
