Looking to Print a Caboose...

[sd45elect2000]

It really is amazing, from concept to product in a few months !! The building jobs here are second to none as well .

Last night I again lost an auction for an AMB brass poultry car kit. Losing auctions for this car has been going on now for about 15 years. If you are giving any thought to creating other car types please include this one on your list !

There are a few other "one off" cars I'm looking for to include in my 1948 N scale roster but this one has defied ownership long enough.

Randy Stahl

[SkipGear]

Randy,

Looking at the poultry car, that may be best to stay as an etched kit or at least mixed media kit. I'll have to do some more research. I do have some very fine brass and stainless screen that may be useful. I'll put it in the list of things to look at. B&O I-5 and N&W CF caboose are next though.

[sd45elect2000]

Hi Tony,

I assumed a mixed media kit. I also have some fine etched brass mesh to use for the sides. My plan was to more or less scratch build one. It's been more than 15 years and I'm still procrastinating on that one.


Randy

[SkipGear]

Teaser...

[btrain]

That looks nice, you can put me down for one!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

What's the method for "best of" again?

[Philip H]

What's the method for "best of" again?

Find a Plaid level member.  Play a Trombone solo in their general direction while walking in a circle backwards.  Make the Sign of the Keystone.  Summon the Wizard in the Woods.  And the get a Mod to flag it.  Oh wait . . . . .

[bbunge]

Here is my attempt at Tony's kit.  This is my first time working on a resin printed car.  It also is my first attempt at making hand grabs.   

Tony sent four sets of handrails.  With two of them, the very fine upper pieces broke off.  Well, that is why there are extras.  But the "broken" handrail combined with the robust set of decals he sent triggered an idea to hack a recent production run Bachmann bobber caboose into a B&O class K.  Windows were filled in and the chassis was trimmed to better resemble the preserved version at the B&O museum and then the extra handrails installed at the ends.  Seems to make for a reasonable version.  Sort of interesting that both of these were primed at the same time and airbrushed red (Tamiya) at the same time, yet came out different shades!



Cheeers,

Bob

[John]

Looks good Bob .. the color change may have something to do with the different materials .

[CRL]

If you want to make clean cuts with a sprue cutter, you must first make a relief cut with the flush cut side of the cutter facing AWAY from the finished part. Then you can turn the cutter around and nip off the rest of the sprue.

If you don’t make the relief cut, the wedge action of the cutter will impart a “pulling” action on the sprue connection point instead of the edge making a clean cut.

Try it on some scrap, and look at the plastic distort around the cut as you slowly squeeze the cutter. You have to give the waste somewhere to go instead of building stress in the part.

[SkipGear]

Great work Bob, nice to see some of these getting built. I have a couple bobbers that I want to decal and update too.

[SAH]

Is there any chance you can include indents where holes need to be drilled for the handrail hardware Tony?  Photo etched parts would be the best but I understand the additional complexity required.  Can the parts be printed as were the end hardware?

I'm asking only because I, and apparently more than a few others, like the possibilities resin printing presents.  Adding the handrails takes the model to the next level IMO.  A case in point is the AMB LaserKit caboose model.  Laser cut wood is nice for the body but does not do the iron appliances justice.  I replaced the factory parts with wires on my NKP caboose.  A big improvement I think.


For my money, the gold standard for caboose kits is Mr. Bussey's Keyser Valley caboose.  Indents were cast into the body to make drilling holes for the etched handrails a snap.  I just love how this caboose turned out.

Just askin'.

Steve

[delamaize]

I guess I really need to learn how to 3d model again, I can think of a few NP cabooses I'd like to have....

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Here is my attempt at Tony's kit.  This is my first time working on a resin printed car.  It also is my first attempt at making hand grabs.   

Tony sent four sets of handrails.  With two of them, the very fine upper pieces broke off.  Well, that is why there are extras.  But the "broken" handrail combined with the robust set of decals he sent triggered an idea to hack a recent production run Bachmann bobber caboose into a B&O class K.  Windows were filled in and the chassis was trimmed to better resemble the preserved version at the B&O museum and then the extra handrails installed at the ends.  Seems to make for a reasonable version.  Sort of interesting that both of these were primed at the same time and airbrushed red (Tamiya) at the same time, yet came out different shades!



Cheeers,

Bob

Bob, those look fantastic.
If, for any reason, you're not happy with the bobber, there are always the Panamint replacement frames on Shapeways.

[brokemoto]

hack a recent production run Bachmann bobber caboose into a B&O class K.  Windows were filled in and the chassis was trimmed to better resemble the preserved version at the B&O museum and then the extra handrails installed at the ends.  Seems to make for a reasonable version.

Nice job on that B&O four wheel caboose.

If you can find one, the Arnold four wheel caboose is based on a B&O prototype.  I have one, but am looking for nineteenth century B&O lettering for it.