City of Miami part 2 - 5
After the glue had set, I notched out the lineup pins in the carpet.
Using a paint chip from the local home repair store, I cut out the
restroom floor from a white sample to simulate bathroom tile
and glued it down as well. I used more of the paint chip to tile the
lower walls in the restroom as well.
The bar floor area is listed as parquet. I found an image of of par-
quet tile on the internet. A little work with Photoshop yielded an
image large enough to cover the bar area floor. I also covered the
area under the lockers with the parquet tile. This will not show in
the completed model but it was easier to do it this way.
The furnishings
A trip to a local hobby shop yielded the dinette booths that I
needed. Palace Car Company, also has a refrigerator and curved
sofas on its website
The curved sofas were actu-
ally made as a double
curve with a straight
section in between.
Three of the sofas with
a little cutting and
shaping give me the
five sofas I need.
Car services
end of the car
For the partitions,
I went with a parti-
tion kit from Red Cap
Line.
They were very helpful
and interested in the
11: The refrigerator compartment
as viewed from the bar.
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project. They pulled
up their own copies of
the interior plan of the
Bamboo Grove and
walked through my list
of parts, making help-
ful suggestions based
upon the parts they
offer.
The lockers on the end
of the car required
three tries before I
built them correctly.
The first piece is the
storage and electrical
locker front. These two
locker types are side
by side on the proto-
type. While the parti-
tion kit did have some
good choices for each,
none are side by side.
I laid them out next to each other, using some of the extra parti-
tion pieces to splice them together. I tried to attach the locker
faces to the partition where they meet, but I could not maintain a
90 degree angle. I gave that up and tried to build the lockers as a
box to attach to the end of the cross partition. Just building a box
didn’t work either.
12: Here the bar and refrigerator
compartment have been joined
and painted. The final paint-
ing and papering have yet to be
completed.
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10: The finished restroom, ready
for passengers to use.
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MRH-Aug 2013
