So, having been delayed and sidetracked by a great many other projects, I have finally managed to get my first scratchbuilt passenger car mostly completed!
Like my freight cars, this piece of On30 rolling stock is on the small side. Totally freelanced, small and chunky looking, it was meant to represent a piece formerly part of an industrial short line turned common carrier. Yes, it looks kind of beat up, and yes, those grab irons are bent in places. It is supposed to look beat up. Measuring in at a mere scale 22 feet long, coupler head to coupler head, it is 7 scale feet wide and about 10 feet tall over the railhead. Materials are mostly basswood strip, coffee stir sticks, some tissue paper that I tried to faux-finish to look like tarpaper, and craft wire. Trucks, couplers, and the castings for the end rails were bought, the rest is scratchbuilt.