The thee point suspension as discussed in this thread formed a nice base to begin with for scratch-building a new carriage for my railway. The idea is a freestyle center balcony carriage as I liked the bit different design of these carriages. I don't have any detailed building drawings so I used imagination, sketches and pictures of similar carriages to form an idea. An LGB carriage was used a bit as guideline and comparison (for instance the width and height of the coach, the coach bottom height, buffer height etc.) so it would fit in nicely with the existing stock.
First I drew the parts on polystyrene sheet (0,5 mm) and cut these to size. Than I glued the sheet on 2mm balsa with contact glue and than cut the balsa following the polystyrene part. Most of the planking was scraped in the polystyrene using an old but sharp little electronica screwdriver. At some points I used strips. Perhaps it was more neatly if I had uses Evergreen siding sheets for it as the scraped in planks are not all equal. But than again it is not very noticeable and it gives a good appearance.
And this is how far I came with the build. It will be for some weeks until I can continue again on it. Time... I need more of it ;-)
First I drew the parts on polystyrene sheet (0,5 mm) and cut these to size. Than I glued the sheet on 2mm balsa with contact glue and than cut the balsa following the polystyrene part. Most of the planking was scraped in the polystyrene using an old but sharp little electronica screwdriver. At some points I used strips. Perhaps it was more neatly if I had uses Evergreen siding sheets for it as the scraped in planks are not all equal. But than again it is not very noticeable and it gives a good appearance.
And this is how far I came with the build. It will be for some weeks until I can continue again on it. Time... I need more of it ;-)
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