Yet another Marklin bogie chassis has been freed up, so this time, for something slightly different, the target is something like:
As the ends of the wagon will be exposed this time (not covered by a full load of containers as most of mine are) I thought I'd "show off some frame member detail". Firstly the wagon was thinned down with a file as per previous wagons. Then a small drill was deployed to make a lot of holes:
These random holes were then joined up using the drill and smoothed out with small files. I have a set of 5 'jewellers files' files in different shapes purchased about 20 years ago, and although I don't use them very often, they seem as good and sharp as the day they were born:
As with the last few wagons made from these chunky Marklin chassis, I will hang the sides of the container down over the wagon chassis sides a smidge, to make the container sit closer to the rails and make the wagon side sills seem thinner. Alas as the container will only hide the middle, so I took some metal off the top of the visible end platforms. Somehow the whole casting didn't snap or crack:
Bare metal bits primed for an overnight setting:
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