SD&SE Niles #107

The Build:

De-PE'd     Removing the Pacific Electric Details

Turning Radius     Concerns about the turning radius of these cars were nullified by the Hollywood Foundry Mechanisms

Turning the Seats Around     Ungluing and remounting the seats so they all face forward

Headlight and Retriever     Investigating and Installing a headlight and retriever.

Primed and Ready     Trying out some colors

Yellow and Brown Paint for #107     Trying even more colors

Interior Paint     Masking and Mahoganying

Decals for #107  Decals!

Slapping some Decals onto #107    Applying the Decals

Doing the Dirty Work     Weathering

Head Lighting     Installing some Cheap LEDs

Cathedral Glass Windows   Installing the Upper Sash Window Glass

Curved Corner Window Glass  with Transparency Film

Windowed     with Transparency Film

Illuminafication  Building a Fancy Apparatus for the Interior Lightning LEDs

Interior Lighting Wiring Schematic     Planning the Wiring for the Lightning

Resistification     LEDs Require Proper Resistors

Brains     DCC Decoder

Trolley Pole Reverse, or not     DCC changed everything.

Mechanisms     Oh Boy! Hollywood Foundry LowBoys

Motorin'     Should have used the Gurzeler Motor Package

Gates     So Passengers Don't Fall Out!

Strategic Seating     Fabricating Seats to Help Disguise the Motor

The Cheap Seats, and the Expensive Ones Too!  Philosophical Pondering of Placing Passengers

Signs of Destiny     Destination Signs

Window Shades     Window Shades

Trolley Poles     Identifying and Installing Trolley Poles



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