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Picture cars you have built
Posted by Boyd on Monday, January 3, 2011 11:57 PM

Have you ever built a car from scratch or highly modifiied one? Post pictures of it here.

Modeling the "Fargo Area Rapid Transit" in O scale 3 rail.

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Posted by laz 57 on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:29 PM

Here are a few. Pittsburgh Penguins Champions car with help from a friend from Da BURGH.

Ol Mil Car.

Chicago Bears Car
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Posted by stebbycentral on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:54 PM

Scratchbuilt cars?  I didn't think that kind of thing happened on this side of the hobby.  Wink

However as it appears that repaints count, here is one with home-made decals that I cropped from a prototype photo I downloaded off of the net:

 

 

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Posted by bigdogjeff on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:12 PM

Laz i dont see a Devils car just penguins whats up with that

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Posted by dougdagrump on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:38 PM

Homemade depressed center flat to carry batteries for the "Raggedy Conducter" in the caboose.

Homemade flats for the Easter Bunny Train.

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Posted by laz 57 on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 6:22 AM

bigdogjeff

Laz i dont see a Devils car just penguins whats up with that

Sorry BIG DOG, This train don't stop at dat EXIT.

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