I just got an LGB-“knockoff” to"play" with for a train club contest. This will be my first kitbash but this car needs help!
First question. Has antone ever seen a two axle tank car? I haven’t but this one is!
Has anyone found a glue that works with this plastic or should I just see what works?!
Doug,
I guess the model you have represents a European tank car. Two axle tank cars were very common over here. Aristo make a two axle tank car by the way. I have one but have converted it, as have many others I believe, into a static re-fueling tank.
Some milk tank cars in the UK had three axles.
Good luck with you bash!
Doug,
Haven’t tried it on LGB plastic but so far this glue has held virtually everything to anything. Wood to styrene to metal to acrylic to PVC to real stone both painted and unpainted surfaces and gives more time to work with it than plastic cements. Water proof as well.
Brandname: Welder http://www.homaxproducts.com/products/Leadcheck/01/index.html
I get mine at Bi-Mart. Walmart used to carry it around here but discontinued it. Might still be available at your nearest Walmart though.
Wally doesn’t, but Lowe’s has the small tubes in a 2 pack
Thanks guys. I have to go to Lowe’s this week to buy roofing!
Curious to see what you do with that tanker, I picked up a “Chinese Taboo” boxcar recently for a work caboose idea, have to give it some time to work out my idea onto the bench.
I just use AC, scratching or sanding the surface before glueing down, works so far.
I think it will be a lot of fun to tinker with and I will get some pictures. Since my layout is 1920s-30s I’d thought it wouldn’t fit in but just learned today that our Lancaster, Calif. club just got a permanent layout site and so if I build it for the Upland club and use it on another I know the new club layout will be more modern so it won’t matter what era I create.