Low sided gondola

Rhinochugger

Rhinochugger

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Trawling through some old pictures on the web of the Slim Princess, I eventually found what I was looking for - a two plank, low side gon converted from a flat car.

so I got meself another second hand Bachmann Fn3 flat.........

an' some stripwood from the Model Dockyard - boy they're quick :thumbup:

The planks on my Accy high sided gon measure 12.5 mm, but I got some lime strip wood 12 mm x 3 mm. The wooden construction is an experiment, a bit of a practice for ron...........lateron.

However, first thing was to take off the bogies and weather them, then swap with with the black ones on the stealth tanker :rolf::rolf:

but now, some progress.

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nice one mate as u been doing work in the kitchen?.so look good so far.
 
steven large said:
nice one mate as u been doing work in the kitchen?.so look good so far.
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Nothing wrong with modelling in the kitchen Steven... you can eat while you work :bigsmile:
 
Nice work Ian made one my self with a old bachmann flat car for my West Side Logging train .
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Phil said:
steven large said:
nice one mate as u been doing work in the kitchen?.so look good so far.
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Nothing wrong with modelling in the kitchen Steven... you can eat while you work :bigsmile:
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:rolf::rolf::rolf::rolf: it true!! lol.lol.bet the wife will go mad..lol.
 
Richie said:
Nice work Ian made one my self with a old bachmann flat car for my West Side Logging train .
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oh i loves it:love: as it look nice and runnin on the tracks richie.awesome:thumbup:. i did some loggin myself .
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Good work Ian
Is the wood basewood?
 
beavercreek said:
Good work Ian
Is the wood basewood?
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According to the Model Dockyard online catalogue, it's lime.

You have to choose by the size rather than the wood. I assume they select the most appropriate wood (for grain, workability etc) for the various sizes.

I need to build a Combine over the winter, as I suspect that the Accucraft ones, apart from being too expensive, are a tad too long for my clearances. So I'm practicing with a bit of wood.
 
Transfers failed ........ failed to transfer, that is.

Managed the numbers OK, so it's off to Mr Fox for some letters at £ouch!

The next box car's going to be ready to run :rolf::rolf:
 
I need 10mm high letters, so they're not going to be cheap.

The bottom line is (here we go again :rolf: ) that when you're bashing or scratching, it often ends up dearer than buying - frustratingly.

The only advantage is stealth - things come in dribs and drabs and you never have to tot up the cost in front of SWMBO. :cool::cool:
 
I assume that this low sided gondola is to be part of a mine consist. As it is a heavily used - and often rough treated - item of rolling stock it would be likely that the artwork on the car might be locally done (i.e. not professionally) and likely to be worn/weathered.
I have found that using an old fountain pen and acrylic paint a reasonable quality lettering can be achieved. There is, in my view, far more control with a pen than a brush plus acrylic paint is far more easily wiped off than oil paint. It is also a good idea to keep the amount to be written (road name and numbers for instance) to a minimum.
If all fails you can get decals made.:bigsmile:
 
Rhinochugger said:
Transfers failed ........ failed to transfer, that is.
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Were you applying them to the plastic underframe or the wooden sides? If the latter, I've had the same failure, and suspect one needs to varnish the patch where the transfer goes (which then needs making matt aftrewards). On my loco with wooden cab-sides I gave up and made a number-plate with styrene, which worked successfully.
 
No, the failure occurred before I even got them near the wagon!

The first one managed to curl up and dive straight to the bottom of the water dish, and promptly de-inked itself all over my fingers.

I was more circumspect with the second one, but it decided to wrap itself up into a piece of string as I tried to slide it off the backing - probably due to a lack of soaking the backing, in fear of reverting to failure 1 (above) which in turn was probably due to insufficient varnish to fix the inkjet print.

The numbers worked OK - just, being a lot shorter, and as I've used up the last of the crafty paper, I've ordered some letters from Fox Transfers.

The joys of building your own stuff :laugh::laugh:
 
looks good though mr rhino ,,,,,,,

i have a couple of these spare which i was going to sell,

might just make one of these,,,,,,
 
Looks great Ian a real nice job of the weathering :thumbup:
 
Lovely job and really great weathering :thumbup:
 
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