Wooden ore cars

[Hauk]

After a rather serious distraction in H0 I have finally started on some cars to hang behind the twin blue tincans presented in another thread.

I have probably shown the prototype in another thread, but I am at loss finding this thread so here it is again:







A lot of time have been spent testing different 3D printer services for producing the bodies, but I have finally realised that I want the cars to be strictly metal and wood as the prototype. Some of the parts will be etched brass, others cast and a few will be  milled on a CNC-router similiar to the Fridtjof has shown in another thread.

So far I have milled end beams for three cars in 2mm brass:










Note the brass Shapeways shown in another thread. In my opinion it looks acceptable in this somewhat larger context, and I think it will look even better on the finished car.

-Hauk

[Ray Dunakin]

Very nice, and a good-looking prototype.

[Hauk]

Very nice, and a good-looking prototype.

Thanks for the response!

It was about time that I started this project, I had the wheels for the project custom-made over ten years ago!

[Juke Joint]

After a rather serious distraction in H0 I have finally started on some cars to hang behind the twin blue tincans presented in another thread.

I have probably shown the prototype in another thread, but I am at loss finding this thread so here it is again:

-Hauk

Your thread is here: http://www.finescalerr.com/smf/index.php?topic=979.0 and glad your back at it. Looks wonderful Hauk!

Philip

[Hydrostat]

What an interesting prototype! I like the position of the wheelsets close to the wagon's ends. Your modeling looks very good, especially the fine wheelsets/flanges. The spokes are white metal? How did you make the insulation?

Volker

[Hauk]

After a rather serious distraction in H0 I have finally started on some cars to hang behind the twin blue tincans presented in another thread.

I have probably shown the prototype in another thread, but I am at loss finding this thread so here it is again:

-Hauk

Your thread is here: http://www.finescalerr.com/smf/index.php?topic=979.0 and glad your back at it. Looks wonderful Hauk!

Philip

Thanks for the link and the kind words! So many forums, so many threads... Its easy to loose track!

[finescalerr]

There is only one forum and it surpasses the others: This one!

Your car and wheels look very good. I am glad to see you back at work on this model.

If you continue to post macro photos of your fingers, it might be prudent to invest in a manicure ....

Russ

[Hauk]

What an interesting prototype! I like the position of the wheelsets close to the wagon's ends. Your modeling looks very good, especially the fine wheelsets/flanges. The spokes are white metal? How did you make the insulation?

Volker

Unfortunately, The wheelsets are not made by me. They were custom-built for me by Erik Olsen, a very talented Danish model builder.

He has written a very comprehensive article on wheel building:
http://www.modelbaneteknik.dk/model/vogn/hjul.htm

Unfortunately, this article is only available in Danish, but try google translate.

There are several other interesting articles on his website, many of them in English:
http://www.modelbaneteknik.dk/model/index-e.htm

[Peter_T1958]

Hi Hauk

Your car and and in particular your brass coupler look very good. Even if I was not that much exited with Railroad stuff until now, projects like these draw me more and more into their spell...

A lot of time have been spent testing different 3D printer services for producing the bodies, but I have finally realised that I want the cars to be strictly metal and wood as the prototype. -Hauk

Your words are close to my heart. Sometimes for me it isn't possible to do so, but I prefere the "just as you would with the original-way" (Sorry, I found no better word ).

Cheers, Peter

[Chuck Doan]

Excellent start. And a great looking prototype!

[Hauk]

One of the things I have given a lot of tought is how to construct the wooden boxes for the ore.
As already shown on this forum I have tried two different 3D printers and a lasercut box.

Not satisfied with any of them, I thought more and more about building them board by board. But an interesting detail is that the prototype used tongue and groove. 

So today I tried to mill some T&G  into Kappler O-scale 1X6.

First, I made a pulling gate out of some scrap Corian and brass.



Why two slots? Well, the first was not thight enough, so I narrowed the second one a little bit. Still needed a piece of tape to get it right.

Then I milled the T&G´s by pulling the stripwood through the gate. I could mill the groove in one 0.5mm (0,02") deep pass using a 0,4mm (0,016")endmill. I was a bit conserened that the tiny endmill would break, but with the spindle going 32000RPM I could hardly feel any resistance when pulling the stripwood past the mill.



Here are the results:









I think I will go strictly wood and metal for this project, so the hardware for the box will probably be brass castings.

(Sorry about the thumbs Russ!)

[artizen]

Sometimes this forum just gets scary with the level of artistry achieved!

[Gordon Ferguson]

Now that is impressive.

Can some of us put an order in for some T&G, please

[Chuck Doan]

Oh man!

[Ray Dunakin]

Incredible!