Train Tuesday P46: Steerage Seating

Boy, these Hovertrain cars are starting to fly off the factory floor! This time, The Forgotten Rails is appealing to the common folk by offering this fourth-class seating car because plebes got places to go too, right?!

Many of our previous Hovertrain car spotlights have focused more on the Industrial side of things, so it’s exciting to add some traveling patron options to our mighty locomotive.

The STLs for this Passenger Car are from Aether Studios’ Fairhaven Line set. You get multiple seating options here: these longer benches or smaller sets of 3 benches. The smaller benches are pretty close to one another and don’t give you the option of placing a mini on them, so for that reason, we went with two tiles of the longer, against-the-wall benches.

Now, will a miniature fit perfectly on each bench? No, but one will indeed fit upright on a bench. DM Ben has been the resident brush meister for all things trains, so he was really going for a dirty, worn look in this car. After all, rugged travelers get rugged accommodations.

As a standard practice, we used empty tiles on the opposite sides to ensure maximum playability within the car. Now, we can have a throwdown when one passenger doesn’t kindly give up the armrest to the other guy. And we can also drop a little scatter terrain piece in here as needed.

The grubby interior certainly needs to be replicated on the exterior, so we liked the idea of being unable to tell that it’s a passenger car from the outside. These weary citizens don’t even get windows, but on The Forgotten Rails, you get what you pay for.

Our entry and exit points are your basic wooden doors. Plain Jane as it were and in line with the rest of this rail car’s simplicity. DM Ben plans to have this interior be quite noisy and even a little chilly too to help illustrate the steerage motif here.

Still, if you’re down on your luck and only have a few gold pieces in your pocket, this Hovertrain Fourth Class Passenger Car will get you where you need to go.

Until next time!