{"id":505,"date":"2013-10-25T23:27:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T03:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2016-10-27T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:55:51","slug":"basic-underframe-for-ac-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/25\/basic-underframe-for-ac-300\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Underframe for AC 300"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sat down again to this project for a while this evening.<\/p>\n

I managed to file down the back of the skirting on the “A” end of the car and glue the side back into the end to repair the earlier damage<\/a>. The floor piece is now able to manuever past the skirting and set into the body. (It’s just dry-fit for now.)<\/p>\n

I admit I’m not a total expert to everything that’s going on under passenger cars, and there’s a lot of variation from car to car. Also I don’t have any really nice close-up detail photos of the bottoms of these two cars. Based on the reference photos I do have, I tried to replicate the general outline of what’s under there using the Train Station Products passenger car detail set, which includes a variety of tanks and boxes and other details.<\/p>\n

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It’s not the most super-detailed underframe, but starting to at least represent the profile of the real thing. I plan on adding at least some piping to represent the air brakes and electrical connections underneath. It’s not going to be 100% accurate, but at least it should have the general impression of the thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sat down again to this project for a while this evening. I managed to file down the back of the skirting on the “A” end of the car and glue the side back into the end to repair the earlier … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[92,65,55,49,165,118],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baggage-cars","tag-ac-300-301","tag-baggage-car","tag-kitbash","tag-model","tag-passenger","tag-union-station-products"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3OeVX-89","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}