Step Two add cross members-like real life it doesn’t have to be perfect.
Step three would be to add banding-I prefer black 1/16th chart tape.I haven’t reach that step yet since I’m out of tape.
When finish my loads will be used in 3 Walthers 65’ mill gons and will look like this but,with banding.The loads are removable for loads in/empty out.
You could paint the booms but,in my case the receiver a heavy equipment dealer/rebuilder (a transload track customer) paints the boom as per their customer’s order.
Also these booms will fit a 50,53 or 60 foot flat car…
Cool, Larry. We are limited in so many ways, often just in imagination or in powers of observation. I can recall, once I got into the hobby, that I found a whole new way of seeing everything. I was a pretty good observer for military reconnaissance and using a telescope eyepiece, but when it came to noticing little details around me, whether in nature or in human artefact, I was a novice.
Looks like good work you have there, and the know-how to do it, your left arm notwithstanding. [8D]
Hmm, nice idea. I could finally use my Chopper clone for something. And I do have a bunch of gons that could use a load of some sort…
As an added bonus, it really is a relatively quick project so unlike the dozen half finished things I have going, I could actually complete this one. Marked for my next trip to the hobby shop to get the scale lumber.
