RSS Fetcher Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 A slightly longer term project that has made some progress in the last week is a partially (well, mostly) scratchbuilt Shochood B. It's a wagon type I've always rather liked and some time ago, when I was building a couple of Parkside 21T hoppers - one on a Bradwell etched chassis - I found myself with a suitable underframe which has been just that for about 18 months. In hindsight, the Parkside underframe for their fitted Grampus would be a better starting point, but there you go, they'll probably produce their own now... Most of the brake gubbins fitted (barring shoes and linkages since these are too easily damaged) along with couplings, buffers and so on, but only at the weekend did I start on the body. http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4936/shochood001.jpg 40 thou' sides and floor allied to Parkside ends: the rest of the Parkside open will be converted to an SR pattern Shock with wooden ends at some later date. To this was added 15 thou' overlays with all the many rivets embossed by hand. I haven't bothered with the detail at the top of the sides since this will be hidden by the hood (which was a permanent fixture on these wagons). This is just as well since the interiors of the prototype wre unusual to say the least. I'll leave all that to those who want to model one after the engineers got their hands on 'em! http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8593/shochood007.jpg More, once progress is made. Adam View the full article Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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