Adding Window Shades
to our advantage.
Lots of lights, weights, wires, and a decoder hanging down from the ceiling. I would like to obscure as much of this as I can, while at the same time accentuate some of the details that I want to be seen. The solution to this are window shades.
San Diego's Class 1's didn't seem to have window shades at first but at some point they were added to help keep the sun off the riders. So I'm prototypically correct to use them here.
0.10" Sheet Styrene should work great for this.
Instead of cutting individual window shades, I cut them as a group for ease of painting and installing. These are strategically cut for maximum exposure or concealment depending on if I'm trying to display what's behind that window or hide what's there. If a big ol' motor frame is there then the shade is mostly closed. If a pricey Preiser figure is behind the window then the shade is wide open.
For these ladies admiring the powerful workings of № 135 I'll probably have the shades part way down so that the ladies are visible but the mechanism not so much.
Note that I was able to slip a 1/4oz weight under the gears. Every bit of weight counts!
Painted, 50/50 mix of Roof Brown and White. Sealed with DullCote which did a nice job of killing the shine.
Glued into place with canopy glue.
How's THAT for personality? № 135 is looking like one hard working streetcar! And the window shades are doing what they are designed to do, only show what I want to be seen and keeping the workings out of sight.
Yes sir!
One hard working streetcar!
Dandy
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