Cutting Grass

The 5 inch portland railway slowly plods along. Lots of grass cutting fun has been had. The wagons have had a coat or 2 of paint and today they ran all the way down and back without issue. Before painting I fully loaded the hopper with clay to see if the door mech could hold it which it did. Hopefully soon I can load it up with balast & get a shot or 2 of it in action.

 

1:8 Scale NZR P, Q & E Wagon Build

Another progress update. 

Finally cut up some 3mm mdf using printed the hopper parts and using them as a stencil. I 3d printed the brackets which there are 3 types to match their respective angles. Not sure why it took so long as it ended up being pretty simple. When I get some bog I will fill in the joins and give it a good sanding before the detailing goes on.

The E wagon was a pretty simple affair, just wanting a flat wagon this time so didn't bother with all the underneath area with this build. I've built a library of pictures for the E wagon & could be anything from a box, flat to a tank wagon. Could also be useful to have a couple flat wagons for the eventual coaling crane.