Too long ago I bought these two very colorful LGB starter set wagons second hand cheaply at a model railway exhibition in Germany:
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
I noticed that one of the wagons had to large and unsightly holes in the floor
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:
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:
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:















Excellent wagons. Love the bathroom picture of you washing them, a first😊
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
Thank you Alan. It looked like they were coming directly from the garden, so a shower was really necessary.
DeleteHappy Birthday 🎂
Well worth the effort, now another few very useful flat wagon added to your rake.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mark. It's getting more challenging to make all these identical wagons looking different. It will be another interesting task to make (interchangeable) loads for them. I have a couple of ideas.
DeleteMore great work on the rolling stock Roger 👍
ReplyDeleteThank you very much MJT
DeleteI even have some more in the pipeline