STEP 6: Car Sides 76500 – 76999 Series
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19: The tabs have been placed on the cars sides.
The top master is complete with the lower master
needing some additional work. The X marks the
location of the door. The doors and the top guide
rails are yet to be installed.
I had run out of Youngstown doors from my scrap box.
What to do? I began looking at one of those awful Athearn
doors with the huge claws at the bottom. Hum, if I remove
the claws would it work? There would be nothing to lose.
So I removed the claws and sanded down the excess plastic
to the height of the door rollers. The door ended up being
the perfect height that I needed for the car. I was off to the
races. One more and I was done.
Because the bottom track hangs slightly below the side of the
car and is supported by tabs I did not add that detail to the
master, but will add it on after the castings have been made.
The rivets were decaled on as on the previous cars but a
single rivet was added to each tab with two rivets being
added to the bolster tabs. This completes the car sides.
Now it’s on to the floors and underframes.
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