A critter and a box car

Ben Streeter is sharing a work in progress off the Critter and rolling stock DVD.  A few details left to be added, but mostly there.  Please excuse our blatent advertising on the box car.  Ben showes his usual top notch skill.

Comments

[John Humes]

WOW!!!!;))

[marc witten]

Hi Ben,like your Boxcar and Steeple Cab,any chance of a view of the chassis and the front,to see how you have finished,and by the way i think you've done an excellant job on both,regards Marc.

[Ben]

Marc, thanks for the compliment. The steeple cab chassis is a plastic rapid prototype. I designed it in Solidworks CAD and printed it on a machine at my work. I will send some additional photos for Thom to post. I also have a great photo of a couple of retired south american steeple cabs which show a lot of detail on the frame. I worked off of these photos.

Oh yeah...I found that a Dixon Ticonderoga Renew pencil (made with recycled rubber) is just the right size for the side air tanks, and also is black. I did add paper straps to the tanks. I'll send the images to Thom and hopefully he will post them up!

The boxcar uses a cardstock chassis, as per Clever's design. I did devise a way to mount trucks which I will share under another entry.

[Ben]

Marc, I sent pictures to Thom. If you would like me to send them to you directly, just post an email address where you would like them sent.

Regards,

Ben

[marc witten]

Hi Ben thanks for the offer of the pics,heres my email address Marc.witten@btinternet.co.uk, by the way did i send you the file of the drawing that my version sits on,when i did the test build,regards Marc