Kitbashing Model Power Gondolas

[sailormatlac]

Matt,
what sort of blade do you have in your tablesaw. I have a couple old Athearn blue box shells I would like to split down the middle.

Honestly, I used a regular wood blade, but I suspect using a blade with more teeth would yield better results. I split a few other cars in the past (ACF hoppers) and it yielded fast and good results. However, I would advise you to keep some excess material to make sure you can later file everything down to the correct size. For this project, I filed the gondolas with a large flat file just to make sure everything was level. Next time I will probably glue the gondola top against a relatively long wood plank to make the process more safer.

Matt