Some time back, last year I think I bought a Bachman Bobber Caboose from A member of the Forum. It had been revised somewhat and much to my surprise had White Metal Fittings and Lighting installed. These were all removed except for those on the end balconies with the prospect of making another of my 2 previously built French Opens (the build described many moons ago). However in the last few days I have been watching a DVD of the Eritrea Railways and decided that I rather liked the Vans with a Brakemans Capoola at one end. They also had V topped Roofs which are very easy to do when Scratch Building. So I delved into my French Books for some Pictures and hopefully a Drawing of something similar as this was to be another of those vehicles that ended up in Germany after being stolen from the French Metre Gauge Railways during WW2. In my world many did not return as many of the lines were trashed during the conflict. Some finding their way to the Selktalbahn.
Some pictures of what I intend to create.
The starting place of the Chassis defined all the measurements so the Van will be very much freelance but in the style of. Here is the Donor Chassis with some of the 30 Thou Plasticard that is being used for the sides and showing one of the End Balconies has been cut off after much careful work with a Razor Saw. Note that I have left the Coupling Fittings in place for LGB ones.
Having cut the sides to height and length (9cm x 21.3cm) the next thing to do was to scribe the sides for Planking. As I intend to have the Air Vents all up the top third if the body will not be scribed. To get planking accurate paralell is a pretty simple process (learnt many moons ago from the Railway Modeller). Count the number of planks in this case 13 plus a smaller bottom one. Then use the ruler at a mark to mark where they will go. The Picture below shows what I did using 5mm points (on a larger or lesser amount of Planks the 10mm mark is used) on the ruler placed on the side at an angle to get the requisite number of planks. The odd narrow one was measured at 3mm to get a norrower plank.
Having scribed the planks I then rough over the plasticard with some roughish emery cloth, this will remove any ridges but also give a Wood Effect. After that I then afaing loosly scribe the planks to get back any lost scribe lines.
Finally having created two sides they were glued to the wagon base using the inside ridge to hold them in place, a couple up inside supports have also been added to ensure that any future hand holding does not deflect the insides. The much clamped process as of just now having an overnight dry off to ensure good bonding.
Some pictures of what I intend to create.
The starting place of the Chassis defined all the measurements so the Van will be very much freelance but in the style of. Here is the Donor Chassis with some of the 30 Thou Plasticard that is being used for the sides and showing one of the End Balconies has been cut off after much careful work with a Razor Saw. Note that I have left the Coupling Fittings in place for LGB ones.
Having cut the sides to height and length (9cm x 21.3cm) the next thing to do was to scribe the sides for Planking. As I intend to have the Air Vents all up the top third if the body will not be scribed. To get planking accurate paralell is a pretty simple process (learnt many moons ago from the Railway Modeller). Count the number of planks in this case 13 plus a smaller bottom one. Then use the ruler at a mark to mark where they will go. The Picture below shows what I did using 5mm points (on a larger or lesser amount of Planks the 10mm mark is used) on the ruler placed on the side at an angle to get the requisite number of planks. The odd narrow one was measured at 3mm to get a norrower plank.
Having scribed the planks I then rough over the plasticard with some roughish emery cloth, this will remove any ridges but also give a Wood Effect. After that I then afaing loosly scribe the planks to get back any lost scribe lines.
Finally having created two sides they were glued to the wagon base using the inside ridge to hold them in place, a couple up inside supports have also been added to ensure that any future hand holding does not deflect the insides. The much clamped process as of just now having an overnight dry off to ensure good bonding.
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,one thing,where did you get the rivet details from?I have been using Cambrian items but nearly used them all,new batch needed and yours may be an alternative.
