Prototype modeling - how far can you take it?

[nkp_174]

Man, I gotta get me some more reference materials. But I was talking more bout buildings than passenger cars. Buildings I would expect windows to be wide open on a sunny summer day. Passenger cars are a different conundrum - I would certainly expect windows to be closed if there are no passengers inside. I don't plan on modeling passengers in my cars, because I think that a passenger car full of people parked in a yard looks worse than an empty passenger car in a train. thus, I think I wil leave my passenger car windows closed.

Oh! I misread this: "kitbash challenge building" as being...kitbash challenge (car) building instead of building as in a structure.

I'm always a touch too quick to think "passenger cars". I've only met a few passenger cars I didn't like...such as this one: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/CandS/dsp-passenger/coach_18-21a.htm">http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstoc ... 18-21a.htm</a><!-- m -->

I agree that empty expresses look better than full cars in the coach yard...although I can't blame them for hanging out there! Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg had the right idea in living in a private car. If only I could talk my wife into it...

I totally think that windows should be open in the pre-AC days...unless the wind was blowing the smoke from the neighbor's coal heat in that direction...