I have always wanted to kitbash one of these rail car diners you ocasionally see around places.
Basically these are converted streamliner cars retrofit into a diner with kitchen and serving counter and maybe a few tables.
I think this would be a great and unigue thing to make for a mini scene on a layout but I am afraid that I dont have the skills to make it look good.
Anyone here willing to take a shot at it ?
Maybe we could make it a sort of unofficial challenge or something? I would be willing to go grab a athearn streamliner kit this friday and give it a go if I could get some advice from our expert modellers here on the guage.
Basically these are converted streamliner cars retrofit into a diner with kitchen and serving counter and maybe a few tables.
I think this would be a great and unigue thing to make for a mini scene on a layout but I am afraid that I dont have the skills to make it look good.
Anyone here willing to take a shot at it ?
Maybe we could make it a sort of unofficial challenge or something? I would be willing to go grab a athearn streamliner kit this friday and give it a go if I could get some advice from our expert modellers here on the guage.
Go for it dude. They were fairly common around here. An old German couple had one here and bought it for the Green Line in Norther Kentucky. They opened it as a diner and served great food on checkered red and white table cloths. They named it the Green Diner. Later my father and brother bought it and tore out one wall and added a larger room to it. They opened a bar and kept the name Green Diner. It was later owned by several people, each adding to it, it stayed a bar and still kept the name. The highway dept. bought it just a few years ago to widen the road, thus ending the era. So build on my friend and show your progress here on the Gauge.