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Monday, 5 October 2015

Summer's over back to the railroad..

Here's a little coaling stage I'm building for my depot.  The sides are from an old MDC plastic gondola kit. The deck is wood siding. I  will have to work out a crane system for the buckets which are made from the ferrule from a paint brush and some thin wire.
MDC gondola sides
Removing ejector stud marks with an xacto and sandpaper stick.
Distressed
Glued together
Glued together
Floor in
Broken board
Dirtied

Dirtied
Buckets finished

Finished

The crane was made from plastic odds and ends with four white metal cable sheaves glued in pairs.  A length of sisal fibre coated in superglue and held to shape whilst drying formed the cable and the hook is a bit of bent wire pushed into a bit of thin wire insulation.  Easy peasy.

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