Well here it is. I took only a couple of pics because outside is freezing! 4 degrees!!!
Anyway.
Here is Antex set #13254. Geobra’s equivalent would be 3245. I bought it specially to customize it. I wanted it to look less western diligence and more “ London Victorian passenger coach”, hopefully I did a good job…me thinks!
The stickers came with the set and I think they are great. The horses are fantastic and the grey one is specially beautiful!
As we talked in the other thread, the gap problem was a mixture of original design plus some Antex blooper. And this is how I fixed it. I made an L shape piece out of some” foamboard” to fill the gap from the back and the roof, so you can’t see the interior form any direction. Then I painted it same color as the rest of the coach, though it could have been black also. As foamboard is kinda soft it takes the shape of the roof structure perfectly.
The interior is not finished but as you know, originally it is very simple and plain so in order to make it more Victorian- looking I must add some things. I first made very comfortable cushioned seats just printing a seat and cutting it the right size, then glued it. The effect is very good and as it is not form a bulgy material, the clickies can sit down just fine. I’ll do the same with the interior of the doors and maybe the ceiling.
I will make some curtains out of modelling paste to add too.
And here are some pics of the Victorian carriage being used by Victorian playmos.
Related to bonnibeth’s thread about customs go wrong, there are 2 things here that went really wrong and turned out to be pretty good things.
1) The wheels. They were supposed to be all dark(like the rays) but the plastic is so pulished that the paint would not stay on. So I took it away and they look like this, which turned out better IMO.
2) The roof, apart from being oddly shorter that what it should have been, it was twisted. I try to heat it to straight it but I melted so I had to cut part of the railing. I left the hooks so I imagine they can tie some ropes there to hold the luggages in place.
