Bruce, I agree 100% on the thinness of the etched running boards. There were
some messages in the past on the Steam Era Freight Car list
where modelers in HO scale used thin square strips of styrene along the outer
edge along the length of their etched running boards to make them look beefier.
A possibility anyway.
Kaslo Shops PS-1 had an etched stainless steel r.b. that was to be folded
over on itself creating a double thickness, much nicer looking!
I've found some plastic material that is see through walkway designed for a
platform walkway in HO scale from Tichy. It is not perfect but replicates the
Apex style and can be narrowed to match an S scale r.b. width. I'll try to
attach a pic, if that doesn't work I'll just post it to the photos section
under plastic running boards.
I agree with Trevor on the PRS plastic "for wood" running boards, not bad
but the laterals leave a lot to be desired with the short boards and the
supports on the outside when they should be underneath.
Besides wood looks best to duplicate "wood"!
Bud Rindfleisch
--- In [email protected], "bbbogart56" <bbbogart56@...> wrote:
>
> I hope to have a lively, but friendly exchange on what we all think about
> running boards (roof walks to some). The plastic ones for wood boards are OK,
> in my opinion, but for Apex (metal grid) running boards plastic is not so
> good. The etched offerings are not , in my opinion, any better. They are too
> thin and the actual grid pattern looks "off" to me too. The roof is what we
> spend most of our time looking at when we see our models, shouldn't they look
> as detailed as the rest of a car? Could there not be a lost wax cast brass or
> injection molded plastic closer to scale offering made? I had some HO tank
> cars at one time that had the walkways injection molded plastic, in a grid
> pattern that resembled Apex running boards very well but way too short and
> narrow of sections.
> I have no means to produce nor the knowledge of how to go about this. But I
> am looking for others viewpoints on this oft negelected or comprimised
> detail. Oh and I do want to know about this in S Scale.
> Bruce Bogart
>
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