Photoss of the 6m wheelbase passenger car model building
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The main frame with leaf springs.
The upper two frame elements are for the passenger cars
while the lower one belongs to a freight car.
Well visible the leaf springs for passenger car are twice as long
as those for freight car.
The passenger car frame elements are also different.
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The main frames of these cars are similar,
there are only small differences.
In the picture one can see the the gas tank
and the brake rods.
The buffer bodies are already soldered on the buffer beam,
but the moving part of the buffer will be added after painting.
The superstructure can be fixed by screwes through the holes in the corners.
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These cars will be equipped with Roco-universal couplers.
There is no place for the short coupler mechanics,
they are mounted on a turning rod with a reversing spring.
This template was made to form the springs.
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The superstructure is made from nickel silver.
The entry area was soldered separately
and this determined the exact position for the side walls.
The bottom part is a strong, 1.0mm thick nickel silver sheet,
this holds the threaded holes to fix the superstructure
to the main frame.
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Between the window bottom line there is a riveted band.
These were made by etching for the model.
The etching design oversized the rivet heads
as the size was reduced by underetching.
Here the upper set shows rivets with too large size.
A new set was made, as seen below.
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The gas lamp chimneys and the ventillation equipment
on the car roofs were turned by lathe
and glued in the holes on the 3D printed roof.
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The 3D etched roof.
This is actually the roof of the 1-2 Class car
that was equipped with ventillation tubes.
The 3rd Class cars had no expernal ventillation.
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This is the first, short 3rd Class car model, before painting.
Its roof was still made from three parts and glued together.
Unfortunately the glued section is well visible.
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The second, short 3rd Class car model, before painting.
This has a single piece roof.
These ugly, red wheels were later replaced by nicer ones.
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The 2nd Class car before painting.
The window frames were soldered before painting.
After painting the frames were cleaned to show the original brass color.
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This is the longer, 3rd Class car before painting.
Only a few millimeters longer than the others.
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All 6m wheelbase cars coupled as a train before painting.
Several run-tests have been performed in this state,
it is important to find all flaws before the colors are applied.
To fix mechanical problems on painted models might scrap the painting.
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The cars were taken apart for painting.
The superstructure became dark green,
the frame and its parts black.
The roofs were painted light grey.
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My first painting attempt was without starting with basecoat.
This was a mistake,
as you can see on this picture the color layer was broken,
mostly on the edges.
This paint has been removed using brake fluid
and repainted applying base coat first.
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A new project a few years later was the model of baggage car
that fits to the small passenger cars.
This is the bottom view of the frame.
The differences to the older passenger cars are well visible.
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The sliding door of the baggage car.
This was made from a nickel silver sheet.
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The baggage car model before painting.
The car body is narrower than the passenger cars.
The spring buffers are not yet mounted
to avoid the paint glues them in the hole.
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