A little question....

[Tony Hunter]

Note to Staff;

Staff, please move if in wrong forum.... I'm still learning my way around

Cheers,
Tony.

While I'm awaiting the parts to arrive to do The Little Multi Purpose Vehicle (should be with me by Friday according to UPS), I've decided to start planning my future railcar projects along with two other secret projects that will take place during summer.

The railcars are based off*:
•NIR 80 class
•NIR 450 class
•NIR class 4000

[they are in no particular order, but I would prefer to do the 80 class first for in time of its preservation & then do the 4000 etc.]

But it came across to me that the 4000 has a difficult-to-model cab & was wondering if I could get away of using a vacum plasticing (<- I'm by far off the correct technical term for that!) for the cab if I made a wooden block template?

If you have any other & better ideas, please let me know below

Thanks,
Tony.



80 class

450 class (screen grab from a video I took for a friend)

Class 4000

*The models will based off the prototype & details might not be accurate enough, but it may also not be to scale & the correct size to allow the unit to fit through the tight corners & the tunnel of (soon to be renamed) NBB railway when on visits.

 

[fridge]

Tony,
This sounds like an excellent project, although I must admit that I prefer the really old railcars from the 1960s. Yes, you could make a vacuum-formed end, but you would have to make a very accurate, slightly undersized and preferably hardwood or metal model and then find someone who has a vacuum-forming machine. (Try cultivating the Design and Technology teacher from your local secondary school). A fairly new alternative would be to use free available software to make a file suitable for 3D printing and either speak very nicely to the aforementioned teacher or ask a commercial company to do the print for you. Either way, good luck!
Robin Jones