My plastic freight car challenge

[modelsof1900]

Matt, thanks!

Now two new pictures of superdailing project for my two Accurail cars.
Both models are finishes out of brake hoses. They will be added after recolouring of all new parts and a few working marks.





The brake is completely installed - and I see that I have made this shot before I mounted a small guiding wire for the long rod to handbrake (with the short chain at end). So as pictured the hand brake rod would fall down on track and this would not be work correct.

What I not did was replacement of ladders because so I think that models would need a complete new coloring and lettering. In moment I'm reflecting to remove the steps only and to replace them by wire. The problem is that I clipsed the floors into bodies too early and now I can not realize an absolute fixing of steps inside of car bodies. I do not love to fix the wire to body by glueing only at the short ends. I prefer to use very long ends of the wire and after a first fixing by CA I bend ends inside of body and fill the small bows with a good abundance of two components resin. This will give an absolute fixing against pulling and more yet pushing on steps from outside to car body.
And now I'm not sure if I can reopen the models after mounting a few wires and fixing bolts which connect the bodies to the floors. However I will write again about success or failures of my attempts.