Hello All, I am happy to report the completion of the construction of my very first scratchbuilt freight car (regardless of scale). It is a PRR H21a Quad Hopper. Some far more experienced modelers may laugh at my effort, but we all have to start somewhere. I made lots of mistakes, but all-in-all, the final item does somewhat resemble a PRR H21a... if you squint... hard... :-)
I took me three months of free modeling time to build this car. I had a lot of fun. I was hoping I was going to enjoy the process, and I did. I have ordered several engineering drawings from the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society for this car. When they arrive, I plan to build more of them, hopefully with more accuracy and with the experience of building this first one under my belt. I still need to weather the car, and I also need to build a coal load for it. The from-start-to-finish article starts on this page: http://pmrr.org/Equipment/H21a/Scratchbuild.htm If you just want to see the final car, see the last photo on this page: http://pmrr.org/Equipment/H21a/ScratchbuildFinalizing.htm My next major project is to scratchbuild an accurate copy of the Canonsburg, Pennsylvania passenger station. Preliminary rough guesses lead me to believe I can build the model full-width to scale. It is going to be up against my backdrop, so it will only be a few inches deep. Enjoy, - Peter. -- Peter Vanvliet ([email protected], or [email protected]) Houston, Texas "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>) http://fourthray.com/ (my company) http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club) -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
