Hrw-Amen Posted February 9, 2013 Posted February 9, 2013 Nothing terribly exciting recently from me, I have been busy making up the Hobbit sets i bought over Christmas. Now it is back to the trains for a bit. I have just been looking at coal wagons. I wanted a wagon that was simply to make yet looked the part, also one that I had bits (Or could get them easily.) to make a train of them. So far I have made six, five black and on white all to the same design. The sides fold down so that they can be loaded / unloaded. I have also been looking at Box Wagons, I have several short axle ones like we had over in the UK in the olden days. I think they are still in some places, but are not as common as they once were. When I was a lad we used to get whole trains of these down the port loading up from the boats. But anyway I wanted something a bit more up to date and I remembered that on my old N Gauge layout I had with my father we had some longer 4 axle type of box wagons that were almost as long as a passenger coach with multiple doors on each side. So I decided to try and make one of those. I plan to make a couple more at least to have a train of them. For anyone who is interested the main 'box' is 40 studs long, I have tiled the interior with lime green simply because I have loads of them I got from a PAB wall when on holiday. Besides I don't think it looks too bad with the blue? Quote
Capt. Stabbin Posted February 10, 2013 Posted February 10, 2013 Great job! I really like the box car. I think the blue works very well. Quote
Frank STENGEL Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 Good looking cars . Just a question: what is the width for the coal cars. From what I can see it seems to be 7studs. Am I right? Quote
Hrw-Amen Posted February 11, 2013 Author Posted February 11, 2013 I try to model all my railway stuff at 7 studs wide. The coal trucks are 7 studs wide as is the box car. Occasionally (usually on engines.) they get to be 8 studs wide, as things like grips, pistons, buffer bars etc stick out. I try to stick to 7 studs though if I can, but I think 7 or 8 look fine. 6 looks just too narrow to me! Quote
LEGO Guy Bri Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 Some very nice designs here Hrw-Amen. I particularly like the blue boxcar Quote
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