Walthers/Train Miniature Boxcars without frames

[doctorwayne]

The Train Miniature cars are among my favourites, and are great for kitbashing or modifying.

This one started the same as your doublesheathed cars, but I sanded the sidesills flush with the wood siding and scribed them to match the siding. I then used strip styrene to add a new sidesill, recessed, as it should be:



This is another, done in a similar manner to match a photo of a real car:



...and an under-construction photo of it, with its Accurail fishbelly underframe:



This one is similar, but not quite as high...



As this photo shows, the NYC/MC car got new ends (Tichy), while the Santa Fe car retained the stock ones:



Before Accurail offered their USRA doublesheathed boxcars, I built three of these using the Train Miniature cars. The underframes were scratchbuilt from styrene.





Most of the other Train Miniature house cars offer similar modelling possibilities.

Wayne