Five Plank Wagon Done

Finished with the Slaters 5 plank wagon! It has been quite a pleasure building this model and I am pleased with the results, I am looking forward to building another car, most likely a goods van. I learned a new weathering technique in the process so it is a real win for me.

The local NMRA is having the first meet of the winter season on Sunday and the popular vote contests will be on. Freight cars is an open category so I will enter this, needless to say it will be the only entry of a UK freight car. Since it is not an "American" prototype I would not expect great results in the voting but it is fun to display something that you are proud of and share it with other modelers.

The KBScale locomotive progress has gotten back on track. I have received the iron and having it and the RSU gives me great flexibility in this form of "hot gluing"! I had not heard back from the manufacture so I went forward with problem solving on my own. I fabricated a new end for the connecting rod from some of the scrap material and used the good rod as a pattern, I also needed to fabricate my own rivet to assemble the rods. I decided that I would solder the rivet to the outer rod, a very tiny dab of solder paste made that a snap. I used a small scrap of paper as a separator to keep the solder from flowing to all the rods. It worked! Twice!! The photo on the left shows the hand made parts. The photo on the right shows the cab front, frame and engine cover/fuel tank. This has been a pleasure, especially the learning of new skills.