Just traded for some Balboa SP / RI Golden State passenger cars. They are good solid cars with decent detail, but nothing compared to the detail of modern passenger cars. The price was also much lower than modern cars (my trade value was $50 per car for six cars, and the narrow gauge locomotive I traded had skyrocketed in value since I bought it 13 or so years ago). These cars don't have interiors, but they come with factory lighting. For $17 I got a roll of smoke colored automobile window tint material from the auto parts store. It's probably enough to do 100 passenger cars!!!! It works great. My wife is a quilter and has a rubberized cutting board with rules on it. She also has this cool rotary cutter thing, which goes right through the window tint material. You can either glue the strips of tint material to the insides of the cars with canopy glue, or, if they're Balboa cars, just cut the strips to the correct width and use the clips and channels in the built car to hold the tint material in place. I'll take some better photos, but the attached cell phone photo gives you the general idea.
Thanks!! The roll of material will probably do 50-100 passenger cars. It comes in several levels of darkness. I chose the lightest--smoke, which is still plenty dark.
