A wooden carriage
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2024 3:04 am
For last Christmas my daughter gave me a wooden 3D “puzzle” to build – a wooden loco+passenger carriage, made by Wood Trick.
It’s a whole lot of plywood, with hundreds of parts laser cut and 75 pages of graphic instructions – no words.
The gauge of the loco is way bigger than 45mm but the scale seems to be around maybe 1:30. The loco ‘boiler’ is full of gears and it is supposed to be rubber-band powered.
So I built up the loco part, as a good father would, taking about 12 hours, and it can now sit on the shelf. This is what it looks like:
But I looked at the carriage and thought “I can put my own bogies under that” and it will run on my indoor layout. It seems a bit small, but ‘close’ enough. So I only built the ‘above floor’ part. I glued paper over the roof to give it strength,
The bottom right pic shows how small in height it is compared to a loco
This is no scale model, so I took no pains to make the bogies look good – it just had to get around my 12”radius curves! Now it can provide true ‘1st Class’ accommodation on the Claymine Branch.
It’s a whole lot of plywood, with hundreds of parts laser cut and 75 pages of graphic instructions – no words.
The gauge of the loco is way bigger than 45mm but the scale seems to be around maybe 1:30. The loco ‘boiler’ is full of gears and it is supposed to be rubber-band powered.
So I built up the loco part, as a good father would, taking about 12 hours, and it can now sit on the shelf. This is what it looks like:
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But I looked at the carriage and thought “I can put my own bogies under that” and it will run on my indoor layout. It seems a bit small, but ‘close’ enough. So I only built the ‘above floor’ part. I glued paper over the roof to give it strength,
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This is no scale model, so I took no pains to make the bogies look good – it just had to get around my 12”radius curves! Now it can provide true ‘1st Class’ accommodation on the Claymine Branch.
