Friday, March 6, 2026

Making more rollingstock for my Heeresfeldbahn and WDLR Garden Trains

Too long ago I bought these two very colorful LGB starter set wagons second hand cheaply at a model railway exhibition in Germany:

An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.
They were so dirty at the time that I had to give them a quick wash at the hotel before I could bring them home:

An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.
They have been laying around in my hobby-room too long so I decided to finally just paint them up to fit my large scale Heeresfeldbahn and War Department Light Railway (WDLR) trains.
I noticed that one of the wagons had to large and unsightly holes in the floor
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.
The holes was simply filled with Miliput:
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.
It was also missing a buffer...
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.
...which I 3D-printed and replaced both sides (so they'll look the same):
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.

Since this is a very common LGB wagon and I have so many other identical wagons of the same type already, I painted them slightly differently than the others. This one was simply spray painted grey and drybrushed:
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.

An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.

With the second wagon  I decided to make even greater variations by removing the axles and replace them with bogies in stead, suggesting a wagon for heavier loads. I got a couple of leftover bogies from my previous project:
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.
On Cults3d I found a free stl-file for a truck mount I 3D-printed to fit my chassis. Then the Accucraft trucks were fitted to the new truck mounts:
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.

I guess this is a wagon that can handle heavier loads than the first one. -Like vehicles for instance:
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.

An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.



Painting these wagons has been like:
An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.

An easy conversion of a LGB wagon to a German Military Heeresfeldbahn or WDLR, War Department Light Railway, wagon for military loads.

I think these 2 wagons are about ready for deployment now, and that they won't look out of place running in either a German or a British rake.

2 comments:

  1. Excellent wagons. Love the bathroom picture of you washing them, a first😊
    Alan Tradgardland

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  2. Well worth the effort, now another few very useful flat wagon added to your rake.

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