07-08-2010, 07:22 AM
Trucklover Wrote:Thanks guys!!
Kurt, now perhaps you could help me out a little here. What do you use for your freight doors when building your structures? Im going to need a bunch of them, and for the most part from what I can see using Bing, most of the freight doors on the structures appear to be just standard roll-ups... Wondering what manufactures doors you use?
Josh,
I would try to get the N scale corrugated material from Plastruct as opposed to the HO scale. The corrugations in the sheet material are closer together and truer to what you would actually see. I have used the N scale corrugated sheets with excellent results. I believe Lance Mindheim's touches on this point in his article in the this months Model Railroader. Basically, certain details cannot be "scaled down" and modeled because it is impossible to achieve the measurements. This is why Lance shoots several of his details with a camera i.e. the roll up freight doors and glues the image to sheet plastic. For this reason I prefer to use N scale ballast.
Larry