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I'll move on before I start posting pictures. Country: USA | Posts: 9910 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 01/28/2012 :  3:54:18 PM     In my stack of kits, I have a basic La Belle open platform coach that I'm going to build. This is my first La Belle kit and I'm now reading and rereading the instructions. The plans cover not only the coach, but a baggage car, a business car, a combination car and a gas motor car. The basic difference in the cars is the sides. Here is the illustration of the coach scanned from the plans. I've finished the sides and ends, which required cutting and gluing the siding and a lot of little parts such as the trim between the windows. The siding strips that go on the sides are shorter than the car and the La Belle site shows the best way to join these pieces before gluing them to the sides. https://www.labellemodels.com/manuals/Scribed%20Siding.pdf?osCsid=51h9mb23pgunoueqdij5n8t967 Here are the car sides as they stand now. By the way, I'm using Aleene's Tacky glue to fasten the wood pieces together. George Country: USA | Posts: 9910 Schoolmaster Fireman Posted - 01/28/2012 :  4:13:17 PM     What scale/prototype is this car? Country: USA | Posts: 1581 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 01/28/2012 :  5:14:52 PM     George, Sorry to hear about your first car. Hopefully you will indeed find a different use for it. Does LaBelle recommend using a sanding sealer on the wood before painting? Bruce Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 Country: USA | Posts: 23230 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 01/28/2012 :  5:35:41 PM     John, it's HO. I don't know what La Belle used as a prototype. My car will be for a freelance railroad, so prototype doesn't matter to me. Bruce, La Belle doesn't say anything about a sanding sealer either in the kit instructions or on their web site. I'd be interested in hearing what others have used. George Country: USA | Posts: 9910 desertdrover Engineer Premium Member Posted - 01/28/2012 :  7:57:17 PM     Hi George, nice pick of car manufacturer. they do put out nice kits. I built one that my son now owns, but for the lack of not knowing what to do, I sprayed mine with a spray can grey primer, then dry brushed it with coach green. I think Bruce has a good idea of the sanding sealer. I'm sure that would help in removing any wild wood fiber hairs. Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11266 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 01/28/2012 :  8:48:03 PM     I have a number of wood kits in both HO and HOn3 and was thinking of sealing them with a few coats of model airplane 'dope' if you can still find the stuff. There is sanding sealer in the 1-1 world, but I wonder if it would go on too heavy for our model work. I know that ScaleCoat used to offer a sanding sealer, again, I haven't seen it for a while. Bruce Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 Country: USA | Posts: 23230 Schoolmaster Fireman Posted - 01/28/2012 :  8:59:38 PM     My local hobby store is heavy on car and aircraft modellers. I saw some sanding sealer there today. No clue who made it, but it was there, right next to the dope. Country: USA | Posts: 1581 AVRR-PA Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/28/2012 :  9:47:08 PM       Thinned shellac makes a good sanding sealer. Dries very quickly and sands nicely. Don Country: USA | Posts: 4600 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 01/28/2012 :  10:05:59 PM     Don, are you talking about something you'd buy at Home Depot or Lowes? What do you thin it with? George Country: USA | Posts: 9910 Tyson Rayles Moderator Premium Member Posted - 01/28/2012 :  10:30:36 PM     Looks like a fun project Geroge! Mike Country: USA | Posts: 10169 Thorn Creek and Western Fireman Posted - 01/28/2012 :  10:49:33 PM       George- I built a La Belle combine a long time ago-- what beautifully designed and produced kits they were! May I suggest that you get a set of Precision Scale Co passenger car seats #33312-1; they're perfect for these cars. I put Central Valley T-25 four-wheel trucks on mine. (Got them on Ebay.) -Dave Country: USA | Posts: 2349 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 01/29/2012 :  06:58:33 AM     Thanks for the suggestion, Dave. I want to put seats and passengers in it, so I won't glue the roof on till I find what I need for the interior. I have some Roundhouse passenger trucks, but I'd like to find some metal trucks. I'm still looking. George Country: USA | Posts: 9910 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 01/29/2012 :  09:19:24 AM     I've started the roof by gluing all the pieces of the clerestory. You need a Chopper to do all the repeated cuts for the dividers between the windows. Carving of the ends is next, and what I'm most concerned about. George Country: USA | Posts: 9910 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 01/29/2012 :  09:26:06 AM     quote: Originally posted by George D Carving of the ends is next, and what I'm most concerned about. I've had the same concerns, George and it has kept me from building a passenger car up to this point. However, push is coming to shove since I need to do a passenger car for the NMRA's Cars Certificate and it is the last car I need to do. Any tips and tricks you learn will be appreciated. Dave, thanks for the suggestion on the seating. I need that for the NMRA build, too. Bruce Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 Country: USA | Posts: 23230 Ensign Fireman Posted - 01/29/2012 :  10:22:30 AM     Beautiful work George! These kits can be real tricky to do well. Yours looks perfect so far! 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