After a mad flurry of restoring some old Airfix 16T minerals I turned to doing a few loads for 3H Coke Hoppers. Two of these I built a long time ago, the third came second hand from the web.
Although these were being done for the coke hopper, the same method can be used for any open wagon and any mineral load.
As I was doing three I decided to cut a template first. This was done from 80 thou styrene and sized to sit on the lip below the raves.
Over the last few years whilst planning a layout but not having enough spare time to build it I filled a lot of odd hours preparing rolling stock. Much came in secondhand, so there were general repairs, weathering and minor upgrading in progress. This Blog will be the story of ongoing cut'n'shut jobs to produce things I want but can't get RTR together with buildings and other jobs in the railway room
A big problem is storage. This topic comes up repeatedly around the site. My work in progres
