WARP 10 Car Kits

[doctorwayne]

....Note: Here the doors are those areas where you will grab the car inevitable with your 5-finger crane to handle it.

You're right, Lutz, and if the doors aren't required to be working doors, then it's best to not make them fragile.

A friend gave me a Proto boxcar that he had bought, second-hand, at a train show.  It had been very sloppily assembled, and it took some effort to dismantle and clean it before it could be re-assembled

The doors on these cars are quite thin, and, as you've mentioned, rather fragile to be at the place where most of us would grasp the car in order to pick it up.
To prevent further damage, I added sheet styrene over the inside of the double-door openings, then cemented more sheet styrene into the now-closed opening, matching the thickness of the car's sides.
The cleaned-up doors were then cemented directly onto that material....

   

...and after a few more repairs, the now-sturdier car was back in service...

   

Wayne