HOn2½ Boxcabs for the Quarry Line

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Here’s a project I worked on back in 2016. It was a tribute to a forum member that had passed away. They did a memorial tribute challange build. I have always wanted to post this on my website, but never got around to it. I figure this will be a good way to get back to posting here and getting it on my website.

I’ll post a couple of high light pictures here and you can follow on my website with the more detailed build of the how’s and why’s. So I started off with this this, an “N” scale DD40.

DD40

And wound up with this.

boxcabs

For detailed information on how it was built go here: HOn30 Box Cabs (kingstonemodelworks.com)

The first page gives the details of how the shell was designed and built. I’ll keep adding to this post as I get the sections of this build written up for the website. The last picture and end of the first section is this picture.

!http://kingstonemodelworks.com/RLF/HOn30/Geezer%20Tribute/Geezer-10.JPG

Enjoy and if you have questions ask them here in the thread so everybody can benifit from the disscusion.

Bernd

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Hi Bernd,

Good to see you posting again!

I like the little locomotives! I’m jealous of your milling machine.[swg]

Dave

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Thanks Dave. Some people have 3D printers, Ihave milling machines. I’m more into subtractive machining than subtractive machining. [:D]

Bernd

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Impressive!

Simon

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Nice clean lines and a believeable design make for a convincing model. Nice work, Bernd!

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Simon & Mike, thank you for the kind words. Mike - It goes to show that if you use 1:1 design rules and apply them to a scale model it should look plausible for a free lance model.

I added how I attached the shell to chassis.

http://kingstonemodelworks.com/TheTwins-1.html

Enjoy.

Bernd