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General Category => Modellers At Work => Topic started by: mad gerald on March 01, 2011, 02:44:23 PM

Title: Gn15 project - "modern" Feldbahn wagon (i. e. horticulture)
Post by: mad gerald on March 01, 2011, 02:44:23 PM
G'evening all,

I had some thoughts regarding the usage of a nursery railway on 15" track and developed a more modern (?) looking prototype of a nursery wagon with an exchangable "cartridge", i. e. for 2 standardized fruit crates (as shown) ... or a bigger crate ... or split logs ... or with a water tank ... or with a power generator ...

In reality this wagon would be built with a metal framework, covered with metal sheet. I used styrene on this 1/22,5 version. The drawings I made on the computer, printed them on self-adhesive paper, cut out the parts and removed the self-adhesive paper. Then, again follwing Marc's recommendations, this low detailed prototype was coloured with 3 different colours of brown, applied with a sponge, followed by a coat of yellow colour. The first time in my life I tried the chipping technique, having applied 2 coats of hairspray before putting on the yellow colour on.

As a matching loco I would think about an AGV AL-3 (http://kalderen.net/Lok/AGV/AGV13.JPG) like the one owned by Olov Kalderén ...

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fgallery%2Fimage.php%3Falbum_id%3D4%26amp%3Bimage_id%3D228&hash=8e6c687c61b2d4b168b60fab554466a2d22123e9)

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fgallery%2Fimage.php%3Falbum_id%3D4%26amp%3Bimage_id%3D230&hash=2d18df5f0846cae83e5576e0e7c06d1d6ef43799)

Kind regards
Title: Re: Gn15 project - "modern" nursery wagon
Post by: Ken Hamilton on March 01, 2011, 04:12:31 PM
I just can't get enough of this cute Big-Scale stuff.
Thanks, Gerald!!
Title: Re: Gn15 project - "modern" Feldbahn wagon (i. e. horticulture)
Post by: mad gerald on December 30, 2011, 12:44:35 PM
G'evening all,

While involved in the struggle of building a Feldbahn locomotive in 1/22,5 scale from brass, I decided to have something different during the holidays and pulled out the "Gn15 Modern Feldbahn Wagon" and overworked it.

This prototype construction is completely scratchbuild from stryrene. I made the drawings for flat surfaces/parts again on the PC, printed them on self-adhesive paper, applied them on styrene sheet (0,5mm thick) and cut out the parts and removed the self-adhesive paper. The styrene strips (various width and thickness) where cut to length with my Boehler circular saw. This time I used acetone to glue the parts together, just to avoid deformation caused by common plastic/modelling glue as happened to my Struppe Akkulok. The wagon finally was mounted to a  Bachmann® arch bar freight truck.

The loading platform is in accordance with the dimensions of an Europalette, loading and unloading could be done with a forklift sidewise. Other variations like a flatcar or a gondola are imaginable, combined with various equipment as well as i. e. generator/compressor, water tank etc. which would make this type of wagon a multifunctional wagon for horticulture, light industrial or workshop purposes i. e. carpentry (palett factory) , winery, hospitals (laundry transport) etc. As a matching loco I still think about an AGV AL-3 *klick* (http://kalderen.net/Lok/AGV/AGV13.JPG) like the one owned by Olov Kalderén.

Coming next will be the colouring and weathering ...

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.de.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2F07-03-0001-Moderner-Feldbahnwagen-P1030800.jpg&hash=bcc59793510de9694e337ce69e969729a77a55d7)

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.de.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2F07-03-moderner-feldbahnwagen%2F07-03-0003-moderner-feldbahnwagen-p1030804.jpg&hash=b3216f8d27840cd068eb0781701ba9131d08423b)
Title: Re: Gn15 project - "modern" Feldbahn wagon (i. e. horticulture)
Post by: marc_reusser on December 31, 2011, 02:44:36 AM
Those are really neat and beutifully built little cars. I really like your results with the paint, chipping and rust....very believeable and realistic.

M
Title: Re: Gn15 project - "modern" Feldbahn wagon (i. e. horticulture)
Post by: mad gerald on January 13, 2012, 12:23:18 PM
Hello, bonjour, howdy ...

even though I turned meanwhile to another modelling project, the IR-controlled brass loco, I couldn't resist building another of these little Gn15 wagons, which are really fun to build ...  :D

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.de.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2F07-03-moderner-feldbahnwagen-2%2F07-03-0007-moderner-feldbahnwagen-p1030854.jpg&hash=23e6e1a706f21a8a5d6f3a5721c1437e33770b6e)

This version is more a kind of flat wagon, even it has low bulkheads, built from the same parts and in the same way. The bulkheads have the height of a pallette. The strips on the loading platform will prevent palletts from slipping sideways. Instead of common palletts I can imagine the transport of pallett-containers at some kind of commercial property or regarding the disposal of wastes ...

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.de.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2F07-03-moderner-feldbahnwagen-2%2F07-03-0008-palettencontainer-fuer-feldbahnwagen.jpg&hash=262cc4f3c143492f31acefe3c0c6be5f4e7b33d2)

A few pictures more can be found *here* (http://www.de.feldbahnmodellbau.de/projekte-projekt-moderner-feldbahnwagen-fur-gn15-2/)

Quote from: marc_reusser on December 31, 2011, 02:44:36 AM
Those are really neat and beutifully built little cars. I really like your results with the paint, chipping and rust....very believeable and realistic.

... thanks ...  ;D