I’m trying to model a series of steel girder bridges based on New York Central prototypes in the Rochester, New York, area. I’m fairly certain I can kitbash them from various steel girders and beams available commercially in HO scale, but one thing that has me stumped are these curved decorative brackets. Are they fillets? Brackets? Don’t even know what to call them. Are they available commercially? Any geniuses out there who want to create these in Shapeways for me? I did consider making my own from pieces of styrene, but I am really intrigued by the rivet detail and layers of steel that make up the design.
Please see attached photo… I have highlighted the brackets in yellow. Any guidance would be appreciated.
I think with a steady hand and youthful eyes they’re doable. As far as the rivets go check out the Micro-Mark rivets I used on my scratch built steel girder bridge.
They don’t look to difficult to fabricate from styrene and rivet decals. I would start off by making a cutting jig for the centre then a jig to hold the surround in the correct place whilst glueing.
That hand rail should be easy to model, just put in in place, and bend the wire, you could even take a model car and have it look like it hit the hand rail [swg](could even have a clueless looking person that is the driver standing and looking at the damage[(-D]
You’re probably right, it wouldn’t be too hard to make them myself, was just hoping to speed things along if they were commerically available. Hadn’t considered rivet decals, been hearing a lot about them, like the results I’ve seen posted… Thanks for the tip!
That’s a good lead, thank you. Was thinking how similar it seemed to the structures I remember from the elevated subway lines with the same kind of steel brackets.
