gregh
electronics, computers and scratchbuilding
It’s been 15 years since I last built a passenger car, but I’ve been motivated to start on a Buffet Car.
The hot weather means work inside is more comfortable, but the main motivation was coming across these ‘smelly’ smoke oils from http://megasteam.com/page2.html (Thanks Tramcar Trev)
and noticing there is a ‘frying bacon’ smell available. Now how about a buffet car trailing a smell of frying bacon around the layout?
I decided on a Buffet rather than a Dining Car as I have fond memories of traveling Sydney-Melbourne on the Spirit of Progress in the 1970s, and enjoying sausages for breakfast in the Buffet car. It looked like this:
Externally I will make it much the same as my sitting car, which is 520mm long:
Internally, there will be a kitchen space behind frosted windows, where I can put a battery and the smell unit.
Now cutting out all those windows can wear out your fingers pressing on the knife, so I discovered years ago it is easier to use 0.5mm styrene and build the sides up in layers. It took a couple of hours to mark out each side and cut the windows out.
Then on the inside, below window level, I contact-glued 6mm ply to one side and 38x8mm pine to the otherside which will be hidden by the ‘counter’. Along the inside tops above the windows, I glued 3/32” piano wire to stiffen it. These stiffen the sides and keep them straight.
Then it was just a couple of days of fiddly work adding all the window frames etc to build up the sides. Note the area below the window will be painted green separately and glued on at the end.
I make the inside window frames so I can slide the pieces of plastic ‘windows’ in from the top. This pic shows one of the frosted panes being installed. This is so I can paint first and put the windows in later.
The base is 3mm, 3 ply wood with 8mm thick timber frames. I had a couple of simple bogies I had made from styrene previously, so decided to use them.
Having finished this, I realised I had made the frame 3mm too narrow, compared to my other carriages, but I hope it’s not too noticeable.
Now I`m working on the interior while I wait for the paint to dry.
The hot weather means work inside is more comfortable, but the main motivation was coming across these ‘smelly’ smoke oils from http://megasteam.com/page2.html (Thanks Tramcar Trev)
and noticing there is a ‘frying bacon’ smell available. Now how about a buffet car trailing a smell of frying bacon around the layout?
I decided on a Buffet rather than a Dining Car as I have fond memories of traveling Sydney-Melbourne on the Spirit of Progress in the 1970s, and enjoying sausages for breakfast in the Buffet car. It looked like this:
Externally I will make it much the same as my sitting car, which is 520mm long:
Internally, there will be a kitchen space behind frosted windows, where I can put a battery and the smell unit.
Now cutting out all those windows can wear out your fingers pressing on the knife, so I discovered years ago it is easier to use 0.5mm styrene and build the sides up in layers. It took a couple of hours to mark out each side and cut the windows out.
Then on the inside, below window level, I contact-glued 6mm ply to one side and 38x8mm pine to the otherside which will be hidden by the ‘counter’. Along the inside tops above the windows, I glued 3/32” piano wire to stiffen it. These stiffen the sides and keep them straight.
Then it was just a couple of days of fiddly work adding all the window frames etc to build up the sides. Note the area below the window will be painted green separately and glued on at the end.
I make the inside window frames so I can slide the pieces of plastic ‘windows’ in from the top. This pic shows one of the frosted panes being installed. This is so I can paint first and put the windows in later.
The base is 3mm, 3 ply wood with 8mm thick timber frames. I had a couple of simple bogies I had made from styrene previously, so decided to use them.
Having finished this, I realised I had made the frame 3mm too narrow, compared to my other carriages, but I hope it’s not too noticeable.
Now I`m working on the interior while I wait for the paint to dry.
crikey - devils in the detail