Now that's cool! A nice high chimney so the smoke doesn't get in the eyes of the guy in the cupola!
Hey, you want to really improve the look of the caboose? Do what I did, cut some strips out of empty milk jugs and glaze the windows. I really improves the look of those otherwise open holes!
By the way, I used a golf tee on one of my own cabooses. It's a BIG chimney!
Well it may be hard to see,but I did add clear plastic from an old CD case in the inside to simulate glazed windows!
No, I couldn't see, but that's a good idea. With my way you can't see inside that there's nuthin' in there.
Quick story, I had four old Lionel cheapie cabooses I wanted to unload at a club show. To make them more saleable I did the milk jug thing and glazed the open windows.
Well, a guy came by and bought all four at $5 each (all I wanted) and said "Wow! That's an interesting variation on those cabooses. I've never seen any windows like that." "Of course not," I replied, I did it!" He asked me how so I told him. "Great idea!" he said, "I'll try it on some of my own!"
Good idea I know some lighted Lionel cabeese had opaque windows like that!
I did the milk jug thing on the MTH passenger cars I've got that I didn't feel like putting people into. It does look good!
My Williams passenger cars have line drawings of people etched into the plastic windows.
The Williams cars I've got are the same, they did the Lionel thing with the silhouettes.
Honestly, I prefer the silhouette strips to clear windows. They're good enough for my purposes, I don't need a detailed car interior. In fact, cars with strips (including the milk jug strips) seem to be a bit brighter when they're lit than when they have clear windows.
I agree ,unless they have seats then the silhouettes are the way to go!
For HO scale passenger cars with no interior details it helps to weather the model with a dry brushed earth coating including the windows the weathered car on the right is in contrast to the unweatherd car on the left(MDC HO Harriman Passenger cars).
You know, while I appreciate all the effort that goes into a weathering job, and some are pretty amazing, I prefer to leave my stuff "as is." Not realistic as far as real-world used-hard railroad equipment, but I like it.
Depending on what you want you have to not go too far in the weathering dept.
Say, if you want to see some amazing weathering check this video out, it's from the October 2022 York Train Meet. Skip ahead to 27:20 for the weathered cars or watch the whole vid, pretty darn interesting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmmdOIwSt6E
Again, the weathering's not something I'd be interested in but I sure can appreciate the craftsmanship!
Amazing!
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