Yesterday I begun construction of a stratch-build snowplow for my railroad. This is the first large piece I have built from styrene, but I am happy with it so far. But, there is still quite a bit to do!
I am hoping to find a US-style headlamp similar to that of the lights on my Forney to mount on the snowplow, then run a line into the car where a battery will be hiding. I'm thinking I can install a plug in the front of the car or the chassis so that the plow can be removed, if need be. But, I'm not sure, then, how I'll secure the supports inside the bed...
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Today I built the boiler for Toby's interior. When I build a model like this I do it in cardboard first then in the final material - in this case, styrene.
It's been quite a while since my last post! Since the weather has gotten colder and the ground has frozen it has become nearly impossible for me to do anything.
But, I have recently begun actual work on Toby the Tram engine. All the doors have been removed. They need refining, but the model already looks much better! (I also removed that one window, but my hand slipped and I took out two chunks on the bottom frame. I'll have to fix that somehow.) Once I got the doors out I was able to fabricate cab floors for either end of the loco. They will not be staying white. One of the first projects I started after I decided I was going to build a garden railroad was building a few styrene skids for my box car. They are quite simple and I think they look very nice. All my styrene came from Evergreen Scale Models. I have to paint them still; which should reveal the wood grain that I etched into each piece before gluing them together. You can't see it in these photos because this was the first one I built, but I ran each styrene 'board' over sand paper before gluing together.
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