03-22-2021, 01:50 AM
I've had very little time for model railroading since the kids were born 4 years ago. And to top it off my eyes started going bad a couple of years ago, and I don't have quite the eye for detail I once had. So I thought I would pick something not too complicated that I can finish up just to say that I started and finished something.
Years ago I bought a Model Die Casting Harriman Observation car kit in HO scale, probably at a train show. My thought was that my fictional railroad bought it as car for railroad dignitaries and other wealthy folks to go at the end of a train of mostly older open platform wooden coaches. It has never looked right as the only closed vestibule steel car on the train. So, I dug out an old round-roof Athearn coach from my youth that will mate well with the Harriman observation car. I am fixing that one up right now. I figure the coach will be for the common folk. To round out my short train, I figure I need some kind of baggage or RPO.
So, I won an unstarted MDC baggage car of ebay for a reasonable price. My challenge will be to build the kit mostly as-is without fussing to much over added details. I will try to utilize the parts of the kit rather than try to fix the various errors and lack of details because I know once I jump down that hole it will join the heap of other projects that are 90% complete but lack this or that. I just want to get something done and feel good about that.
Years ago I bought a Model Die Casting Harriman Observation car kit in HO scale, probably at a train show. My thought was that my fictional railroad bought it as car for railroad dignitaries and other wealthy folks to go at the end of a train of mostly older open platform wooden coaches. It has never looked right as the only closed vestibule steel car on the train. So, I dug out an old round-roof Athearn coach from my youth that will mate well with the Harriman observation car. I am fixing that one up right now. I figure the coach will be for the common folk. To round out my short train, I figure I need some kind of baggage or RPO.
So, I won an unstarted MDC baggage car of ebay for a reasonable price. My challenge will be to build the kit mostly as-is without fussing to much over added details. I will try to utilize the parts of the kit rather than try to fix the various errors and lack of details because I know once I jump down that hole it will join the heap of other projects that are 90% complete but lack this or that. I just want to get something done and feel good about that.
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Kevin
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3-d printed items in HO/HOn3 and more!
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