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Getting back into the swing of things after a busy spell. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52039742410_9b24db9282_b.jpg Got the upper cattle doors done for the cattle wagon. First things first, was the painful process of making the pins for the cattle car functional. https://live.staticflickr.com...

Got a chance to get back working on the car, now completed the roof. (I still may do some detailing). First job was to finish up all the planking. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52006317804_ba452c0977_b.jpg I ended up using the 0.02in sheet, 0.5mm, pretty sucessfully. I used a medium CA supergl...

Got back to working on the cattle wagon today, first thought of the day was a load. These little Papo sheep seem to fit pretty well... and well they followed me home. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52001948870_dc73e483f4_b.jpg All and all they fit pretty well in the car. https://live.staticflic...

Door one is on as of today. Started by fitting things up, need to do more rivets. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51991994415_52d734629f_b.jpg Mounted the brackets up, they'll get a pair of rivets into the styrene. Mechanical fit as well as a glue fit, should help. https://live.staticflickr.com/...

I can't be left alone.... Went through my brass drawer and found some bits I missed.... well a bit of work later and the first latch exists. Still need rod stock though.

ge_rik wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:05 pm PM sent

Rik

Those are exactly what I needed, thanks a ton!

Thanks for all the encouragement! I admit I've also been sizing up an actual Welshpool & Llanfair / Vale of Rheidol car (I think it's 38089?). The more I look the more I'm tempted to start the second one of these cars completely from scratch and model to prototype. That being said a hunt for dra...

Back at it, more progress on the Welshpool and Llanfair cattle wagon. Today's project has been rivets..... lots and lots of rivets. So far about 260 or so..... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51984480282_c4840239b3_b.jpg Of course, one thing lead to another and I started on the doors for the car...

Thanks for the comments guys! I've been having a lot of fun building this stuff. Something different from what I generally model. You have just the best day-job going, working in a hobby shop with access to all the materials needed and time to use them.... I'm so envious. There's a flip side to that...

Hello all. I've been working to create enough wagons through scratch building and bashing for my future garden railway here in the US. Very early on I realized it was going to be hard to get a lot of 16mm scale kits here, so I thought why not just kit bash something that looked close to something th...