has any one built moloco’s HO scale transfer caboose kit? i want to buy one and use with a flatcar once i get one.How easy is it to build? especially making the handrails yourself? is there any tool available to bend the parts of hand rails that curve as in the photo of the kit in walthers reference catalog?
I looked at one closely last week, but passed it by since it’s too new for my time period.
The kit didn’t look too difficuly. If you’ve built a Tichy boxcar, you should have NO problems with the Moloco kit. All the parts were nicely molded with little flash, and there were drill guide holes for adding the grabs. A little MEK and ACC, and the thing should fall together in a couple of evenings.
As for bending, who needs a jig? So long as you’ve got a pair of small jewler’s pliers and a pair of chain nose pliers, you’ve got all the tools you need to form ANY grab.
i bought 1 several years back and had some trouble. i added small pieces of styrene angle to the inside to help moiunt on a flat car deck and the stanchions are kinda frail looking .
tom
I have two that I converted to logging cabooses. I like the kits. They are pretty
easy to assemble, perhaps excepting the corner steps. I found the stanchions
adequate-I haven’t broken any beyond simple repair yet, and I’ve had them
for at least 4 years. Granted, I didn’t quite build them as intended, but fairly
close-my cabins are toward the end of the flatcar to permit my logging
railroad to have a useful platform to send small machinery loads and
supplies to the woods camps.