Has anyone tried overlaying styrene car sides with riveted brass strips? How hard would it be to cut (and imprint the rivets on) a strip that is thin enough (width-wise and thickness-wise) to accurately represent an overlap?
John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] John's World on the Web http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/welcome.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "meldridge2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: June 02, 2005 10:09 AM Subject: [S-Scale Modeling] Re: Scratch-Built Box Car Sides > The limiting factor is the overlapping joint. I think the only way > you > can do this well is with brass. If you use thin enough styrene, > you'll > have a terrible time embossing rivets without punching through. Even > with the brass, the sheet will be very thin, so you need to fill in > the back of the rivets if you emboss them, otherwise they'll get > flattened as you handle the car. I've been considering making a car > side with the thin brass, then molding and casting the side in > polyurethane, but I don't care about boxcar interiors so it doesn't > matter how thick the wall is. Another option on my "to try" list is > that you can buy rivets from Tichy. These are like NBW castings. I'm > not sure I could drill the required holes accurately enough, but > maybe > with an XY table or even the Riveter table in the drill press it > would > work. > > -Michael Eldridge > -San Jose, CA > > > --- In [email protected], "John Degnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... I'm looking for input on how to make steel boxcar sides from > scratch. What type of material is best (Sheet styrene? Other?), and > what methods work best for simulating sheet-metal overlaps (joints), > rivets and other details? I'd like the thickness of these sides to > allow for interior detail, yet remain at least close to the actual > thickness of the walls of the prototype... in short, as prototypical > as possible. > Thanks. > > > > > > > > The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. > > Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
