my project is far from finished. but waiting for some glue to dry, i thought i could start to present it: it is a MOC (maintenance of crew) car for my Lost Gulf Branch line. it is a typical 3rd world construcktion. wooden frame with hardwood aixle bearings with a mainly wooden structure upon it. mainly it is a tank with an outhouse upon it. history: when the first mile of track was inaugurated, the chairman’s wife stepped into something brown and smelly. for the sake of marital pleasures, the chairman agreed to build a mobile outhouse for the tracklaying crew. the line beeing built on a shoestring budget, he orderd his workshop foreman to throw something together, that looks fit for the job and costs as little as possible. the other foremen were told in sotto voice to tell their men, to look for bushes farther away from the tracks. — as i am more or less into 1:29, my beloved coffee stirrers are too thick for boards. so i do use them for thicker planks. or cut them to 2" by 4"s. for boards i use thick veneer. the parts used: weels from a “bump ‘n’ run” toy-loco some sticks from the local carpenters leftovers some coffee stirrers and veneer pc-cooling ribs for couplers fishinghooks for pins plastic chain links filed iron nails for squarebolts an old LAN T-connection, a washer, apiece of copperwire and half a pressbutton for the outlet valve two antenna connectors and a shoestring for the hose a toothpaste-tube for sheetmetal and tankgirders for glue i use the omni glue from UHU and some two component epoxy in another forum i got accused of “twigs and sticks” modelling. but that is pure rubbish. there is not even one twig used for this modell… well, i got still about 24 hours left and the glue should be dry by now…
