STEP 6: Car Sides 76500 – 76999 Series
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17: This is how I set up the chopper to cut the tabs.
Now, on to the tabbed car sides. These cars are 1” taller
than the 76000 – 76499 series. Normally I wouldn’t have
worried about the difference and made them both the
same. But in studying the photos of the two different series
of cars I noticed that the ends of 76000 – 76499 have five
ribs and the 76500 – 76999 have six ribs.
Since I need to make different ends for each one I went
ahead and made the side heights per the prototype. I fol-
lowed the same procedures as on the other sides with the
noted exceptions.
My original plan was to cut the tabs out of the .020 styrene
body. I wasn’t satisfied with the results. They looked just
plain awful, and made a quick trip to the trash can. Plus,
as I studied the photo of 76949, I realized that I cut the
tabs wrong. After some thought about how to proceed, I
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