Wagons

[choochooenthusiast]

This thread is for build logs of wagons as I plan to make a few.

First off, a friend of mine who we will call Josh, has asked me to draw up a salt wagon for him. He is using a Andrew Wildish chassis. I believe Andrew used to run 3DP rolling stock. Josh has sent me a page out of Model Engineer 11 August 2000 which features a Saxa Salt 10 ton Wagon drawing. 

This is not an exact model of any wagon in particular, I've taken elements from a few different salt wagons to make up this model. We are invoking the 6ft rule on this. 



It will be printed in large sections. A lot of the detail will be able to be printed onto the section rather than having a bunch of separate bits.
I'm about to order some PETG so I can have a go at building a few myself. I'll make the model available to download once it is completed.

Connor

[dhamblin]

Nice start, they are very distinctive vehicles with the pitched roof.

Have you seen his latest detailed wagon chassis? www.thingiverse.com/thing:5773922

Regards,

Dan

[choochooenthusiast]

Hi Dan, yes I have seen that new one. I’m thinking of using that for my wagons. It’s a very well designed assembly. Only 2 or 3 parts make up the chassis structure.

Connor

[darrene]

That's going to look the business Connor. You're going to need more printers at this rate

Andrew's new frame design looks very good and should prove a good basis for other projects. I'd quite like to have a go at extending one of them with additional centre pieces. I've made three now and they've all gone together very nicely to create a strong and rigid base.

I'll look forward to seeing the salt wagon evolve!

Darren