Or…“I Beat Bob To It”… So having dozens of long term projects, and nothing that looks like being finished soon, I found my inspiration waining…so needed something I could finish in an afternoon. Harking back to something Bob and I had discussed in one of our early morning coffee sessions, and I had been kicking around for some time, I decided TODAY WAS THE DAY! I was going to add peaked ends to a hopper. I have for a while been converting Bachmann Big Hauler hoppers to operational quality 1:20 scale cars by adding width, and I sorta was trying to get away from the distinctly East Broad Top look of these cars. The peaked end add ons were fabricated from a styrene No Parking sign and some .040 strip, and the application of some Plastruct zees. Rebuilt the brake staff with my own resin cast parts…
Heres a shot showing an un modified car on the left, a widened car in the middle, and of course the peaked end retrofit on the right…
Now with paint and decals applied, ( yes Bruce, I still have to add the airlines) I think i succeeded in creating a unique class of cars for the West Virginia & Kentucky …
