30' Painter's Car/Waycar/Caboose (HO SCALE)
Aight so the reason why i didn't post a proto pic with the last one was bc I was basing it off this car. YES the painter's car has a rebuild date of 1921, but thats mostly because its being repurposed, you'd rarely build a specific painters car, you'd take a old car from the wrecker track, fix it up, and repurpose it, hence the 1870s construction style of the car.
also would make for a kickass waycar
When assembling, please note:
- Heat the trucks before inserting the wheels if they're cold.
- If you use off the shelf trucks you need to make your own screw holes and whatnot, but they work great still.
- The shells can just be hot glued to the chassis, it works and is durable.
- Everything needed for the couplers is included exept attachment (screws, toothpicks, glue, what have you)
- You can use screws, but cutting toothpicks to size, inserting, and pushing them in with pliers works great
- I recommend kaydee 148s or some similar variety, but most couplers work.
- Use whatever 33 inch wheels you prefer, but I recommend metal ones, preferably intermountain
- run some wires through the holes on the ends to make the cut levers and the brake stem to mount the break wheel on
We got a discord thingy, we do discord thingies there:
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