I am not sure if the set of sides I am working on to create the 8-5 are from The NKP Car Company or another source. I have two more complete 8-5 kits from NKP and they include very nice resin cat roofs that are very accurate. If this was not only car I was building I may have used the Bachmann roof, which is in the ball park but not perfect. The biggest issue in on the aisle side of the car, the A/C duct work is about 50 percent to long. It should only be about one third of the length of the roof. I am using a branch line roof from a 6-3, which has an A/C vent only on the bedroom side, very close to the 8-5 roof, and I used New England Rail Service A/C vent material to create the short A/C duct on the Ailes side of the car; One thins I had to do was remove the Garland vents that would interfere with the NERS duct material. By carefully using a chisel style blade, the vents can be removed and reused. Two need to be added to this car and save the rest for other projects.
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Duct work in place. |
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Overall view of the roof |
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Garland Vents carved of Branchline roof |
Bethlehem Car Works carries all the various individual part for Branchline kits, they are a great source for complete kits and any parts you may need for kitbashing projects.
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