Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Well, that was a longer break than I had planned on taking. I finished the historic subway car, and it is on display at the Flux Factory in Long Island City. I will do a photo shoot of it once it returns back home. I have not yet finished that boxcar, but I just don’t feel like finishing it now. I do, however, feel like starting my next car - the RhB’s Pullman passenger cars. I learned a lot about modeling passenger cars when making that historic subway car, and a lot of that new knowledge will help me out with this car.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
This photo was taken a week ago! Time flies these days. I’ve been sick, and I’ve also been trying to finish up a pinhole camera that I am making. Meanwhile, I work a little on my next train model. The RhB has a number of these passenger lounge cars (Salonwagen) and a baggage car to match. I keep wondering if it would be useful to make the baggage car first. I’m also trying to figure out how the passenger loungecars are made - the windows in the sides are not all flush in the same plane as the side - the windows have three parts - the big center part is flush, but the two side pieces are at an angle. So I’ve been sketching how they go, so I can think about how best to make them. I’m thinking I may make some study models to help out.