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**Michael_Hohn** · 09-10-2021, 06:29 PM

Looks intriguing . . .

**Orionvp17** · 09-10-2021, 06:34 PM

This has possibilities! Keep going and please keep the images coming!

Pete
in Michigan

**Bernd** · 09-10-2021, 07:15 PM

Is Ambroid still in business? I have at least the first 6 or more kits on their 1 in 5000 series. If your looking for drawings I can scan them for you.

Bernd

**mwbpequod** · 09-13-2021, 09:19 AM

Originally posted by Bernd View Post

Is Ambroid still in business?

I think long gone now.... They produced a fair number of O scale kits, but a far more diverse range of HO kits were never done in O. The O scale kits seem to focus on hopper and caboose cars, with a smattering of others.

I have at least the first 6 or more kits on their 1 in 5000 series. If your looking for drawings I can scan them for you.

Thanks! I have the next 2 after this 1 sort of lined up now -- after those looking at maybe the helium car and the dry ice car.

I'm probably overthinking this car already looking to directly translate from the HO parts and plans.....

**mwbpequod** · 09-19-2021, 11:57 AM

Notching out the floor and roof sections for the doors to slide in as per the Ambroid instructions scaling to O.

**desertdrover** · 09-19-2021, 12:38 PM

Nice scratch building on your part, the interesting part will be if all scratch building parts can be found these days. Seems like us scratch building folks are a dyeing breed, left with no parts made anymore to satisfy our needs.

**mwbpequod** · 09-19-2021, 02:20 PM

Originally posted by desertdrover View Post

..........if all scratch building parts can be found these days.

I'm not having any real challenges in finding supplies, but then again the basic stuff - wood parts and scale strip wood - is already in my shop. Detail parts can be the issue but I seem able to find what I need and if I can, I cast my own parts that I use frequently. I have a pretty extensive stock of parts and rather a lot of traction modeling parts that I periodically purge myself of the excess upon completion of a project or 3.

Fortunately, both Grandt Line and Tichy parts are readily available, or at least that has been my experience. Wiseman and PSC have a lot of basic detail parts I use.