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
10: The finished restroom, ready
for passengers to use.
10
MRH-Aug 2013