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Title: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: adm.nelson on December 23, 2017, 12:36:07 PM
Here is another wagon I built, again in HO. The prototype was fond in St. Louis, and I was very lucky to have found it, as we went back there a couple of years later, and sadly, it was gone. But I took plenty of pictures. It was very dilapidated, and had parts of another wagon in it's bed, and I wanted to model it just like it was.
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: adm.nelson on December 23, 2017, 12:45:22 PM
more pictures. The final resting place for this was on my Loco and Service shops from Sierra West Scale Models.
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Post by: JeffJ on December 23, 2017, 01:16:03 PM
Nice!
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Post by: bparrish on December 23, 2017, 04:04:20 PM
Pretty cool.  Sir. 

Thanx
Bob
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: adm.nelson on December 23, 2017, 06:05:07 PM
Jeff and Bob, thank you.

Tony
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Post by: Sparky on December 23, 2017, 07:19:38 PM
Very good job, and the detail is amazing. Thanks for showing.
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Post by: tct855 on December 23, 2017, 08:32:33 PM
Nelson,
       Yah know, If I wanted to sit and read up and look upon some crappy old wagon tale of yesteryear.  I would ask for...  So my answer is: Please and Thank you!
Wow! very cool indeed.  I'm pickin' up, whatchur puttin' down sir.  Very historic modeling.  I'll say it, very realistic modeling for sure.  Thanx Thom...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex2r86G0sdc
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: adm.nelson on December 23, 2017, 08:57:13 PM
Peter, thank you, and you are welcome.

Thank you Thom. Appreciate that. So you would like some more, would you??? Okay then.

The first couple are how I made the side braces. Soldered wire bent to shape. Then rusted up. The rest are close-ups.

Tony
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: adm.nelson on December 23, 2017, 09:01:07 PM
I also made to scale wheel hubs. I researched the design from a few books I have on wagons.

This is one of the many models that Russ Reinberg publisher of the magazine modelers Annual would have published. He also happens to loves wagons. I have 3 or 4 articles published in his magazine. Some of you may have seen them, Swakhammers and A Victorian House are two. We are still great friends, despite him getting out of the publishing business a few years ago. He still does modeling, and we share photos all the time, getting ideas and comments, etc.

Tony
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: Bobby on December 25, 2017, 11:51:28 AM
Hi Tony,


This is impressive! Very nice
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: adm.nelson on December 25, 2017, 02:20:24 PM
Quote from: Bobby on December 25, 2017, 11:51:28 AM
Hi Tony,


This is impressive! Very nice

Thanks Bobby. Appreciate that.

Tony
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: GPdemayo on December 26, 2017, 09:18:07 AM
Great work Tony.....thanks for sharing.  8)
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: adm.nelson on December 26, 2017, 09:28:43 AM
Quote from: GPdemayo on December 26, 2017, 09:18:07 AM
Great work Tony.....thanks for sharing.  8)

Thank you, Gregory, and your welcome.

Tony
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: Mark Dalrymple on December 26, 2017, 01:55:18 PM
Beautiful wagon, Tony.

One thing the photo shows that really helps portray weight, time and age, is the wheels being so far sunken into the ground.  This could be a very easy thing to revisit on your diorama if you so choose.

Cheers, Mark.
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: adm.nelson on December 26, 2017, 07:19:52 PM
Quote from: mark dalrymple on December 26, 2017, 01:55:18 PM
Beautiful wagon, Tony.

One thing the photo shows that really helps portray weight, time and age, is the wheels being so far sunken into the ground.  This could be a very easy thing to revisit on your diorama if you so choose.

Cheers, Mark.

Mark, yes, you have a very valid point, and keen observation. When I placed the wagon on the Sierra West diorama, I 'borrowed' it from another dio when I went to Houston to show the model in the competition room, so I wasn't sure that would be the final resting place.

Tony
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Post by: S&S RR on December 26, 2017, 08:36:51 PM
Very nice work. 
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Post by: ACL1504 on December 27, 2017, 09:11:48 AM
The work is so well done it looks very realistic. Excellent!

Tom ;D
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: adm.nelson on December 27, 2017, 04:17:34 PM
Thank you John and Tom.

Tony
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: tankcarsrule on January 21, 2018, 08:32:12 AM
That's about as close to perfect as you can get! Stunning!

Bobby
Title: Re: building wagons in HO scale
Post by: adm.nelson on January 21, 2018, 12:03:19 PM
Quote from: tankcarsrule on January 21, 2018, 08:32:12 AM
That's about as close to perfect as you can get! Stunning!

Bobby

Thank you Bobby. Appreciate that.

Tony