CR D38 Glass wagon part 1
I seem to be in a wagon building mood these days. Dunno whether I’m locked down, locked up or or which tier of the cake I’m on, so wagon building is a cheap and time consuming activity.
Now it might be argued that I’m getting my ratios wrong again, too many unusual wagons and not enough of the bread and butter diagrams. I’d agree, but the fun is in the odd stuff. I therefore decided to have a shot at one of the 1896 built D38 glass well wagons. Decent pics in the wagon books and a diagram for the basic dimensions.
The wagon was built on a steel channel frame. Plastic channel has too thick a web to my eye so I soldered this up with brass channel sections from Eileens Emporium. The 19’4” wb makes it a long and awkward thing so I made a jig up on a bit of scrap wood. The W irons on this wagon were straight edged with no knee so I cut them from 0.3 mm brass sheet.
The floor and well are from 10 thou styrene, cut on the silhouette and laminated. The bottom edge isn't as grubby as that, odd how the pic came out.
The well itself is a tight fit between the wheels, the original being 3’ 11 1/2 “ wide. EM back to back is 16.5 mm, so it just fits.
I think I’ll keep the frame and the body as two assemblies as long as possible. Difficult to paint if I jump the gun and glue the two together, but that gives an idea of how it will look.
Sides next.
Edited by Dave John
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