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Acrylic Based Boxcars

I bought a couple of acrylic car kits from Andre’ Schofield; they are basically an inside form for a 30' boxcar.  

They include the sides, ends , roof and the peaks for supporting the roof.

I glued the pieces together using Weld-On #16, an acrylic cement.

The sides are 7/32” thick, so they’re plenty sturdy - and not light at all.

I bought some 1/16” thick scribed siding (3/16” spacing) from Micromark.  

These pieces are 24” long, but only 3 1/2” wide, so I needed to cut a bit over 5 pieces for each side, 2 for each end.  

I glued them in place using contact cement, making sure that I butted the edges as close as possible.

The roof is covered with  two sheets of .060” thick styrene.  

On top of that, I added some .250” x .060” styrene strips to form the carlines.  

The end pieces are 3/8” wide cut from a .060” thick sheet.

I got some boxcar door details from Ozark Miniatures.  

The door was cut from the wood siding and plastic strips were added to frame it.  

Before the strips were glued in place, I embossed some rivet detail on them.

Finally, a .060” x .250” strip was put in place for the header.

Obviously, the doors do NOT open, but they look OK.