sharp X-Acto blade. A bit
of sanding and test fit-
ting and I had a snug fit.
I sealed the entire strip
before I added anything
to it.
The floor of the original
car was covered primarily
with two different colors
of carpet. The carpets for
the Bamboo Grove were
described as having a pat-
tern of different colors,
but were predominately
burgundy for one end and
light blue for the other.
I was not able to get an exact match of the described carpet, but
they were close.
I discovered many years ago, that the best thing for modeling
a carpet is velvet flocked wallpaper. Sample wallpaper sheets
are now available on the internet. This turned out to be a good
thing because the only wallpaper store in town was out of old
sample books.
With the wallpaper samples in hand, I traced the portion of
the floor required on the back of the correct color of wallpa-
per. Then I cut them out and glued them to the basswood floor.
Unfortunately the “brown and blue” wallpaper was flocked on the
brown color, not the blue that I wanted. A trip to the craft store
where I had gotten the basswood yielded a blue paint that would
not eat the flocking. Five coats of paint later, it was ready.
9: This photo and the next two
show the service end of the
car compartment and parti-
tion. This one shows the sofas
attached to the partition.
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