I made these loads from pieces of an unbuilt 1/25 model car kit. They’re held in place with black thread that I ran through the stake pockets, taped to the bottom of the car, then applied a few coats of diluted white glue. Once the glue dried, I snipped the excess thread and, using a hobby knife, carefully separated the thread from the pockets. Now the stiff thread acts as pins holding the removable loads in place.
Mr.B
How exactly did you go about putting a wood deck onto the Tichy flats?
Did you sand down the original plastic floor or did you manage to build the car without the plastic floor?
Thanks again for all the ideas, tips, examples. On this one, I decided to add my 567 model that was by the engine house. It held about 12 fishing line split shots. Then added some chain as tiedowns. I drilled oyt the bottom of the resin crate and added a couple of nuts for weight. The crate needs a strap tiedown, maybe a painted piece of rubber band (but that would rot within a short time, I’d guess.
It’s still underweight (2.2 oz) so i may add another crate and/or add some thin weights to the bottom.
It still needs decals, dullcote & weathering. I’m confused on picking decals (one more thing to learn).
Here’s a photo:
NOT MARK THE DECK? What kind of a railroad is this? Flat cars are supposed to take abuse. Maybe not as much as a scrap gondola, but gee… the NAIL and or WELD loads to the flatcars.
HERE are the flat cars that the LION wants to model…
Three refuse cars sandwiched between two work motors. Those are dumpsters on the cars. Workers lift and drop the stakes, lower the side as a ramp and pull empty containers off, and load the filled containers. Other people do the actual collection and cleaning in the station. This train just removes the containers. You can bet that they get tons of abuse every day.
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LION, can’t see the photo until hitting reply (well, now it works) but now see what you mean.
But won’t dumpsters stink up the layout? I like the realism of DCC sound, but not so sure about the smells! Unless, at least, there’s a DCC function button to turn the stink off or a CV to lower it (is less than 128 reduced smell?). And how will BEMF affect the smell; i.e., if the train tries to slow will the BEMF maintain a constant smell?
LION was working on SERVERS last night. Installing a new fire wall, so our network was down for about 40 minutes or so. You get no pictures from me when the network is turned off.
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