Miamigo259
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Just finished a very cheaply produced loco coaling stage, basically built using offcuts of material and odds and ends.
Starting pint was an offcut of MDF shelving which was mounted on a couple of pieces of scrap wood and then a base formed by surrounding it with plasticard sheet offcuts covered in corrugated paper, with the top of the base then clad with coffee stirrers...
The resulting structure was then painted and slightly weathered...
Attention then turned to how the coal was going to get to the loco tender from the stage, a decision being made to make a crane rather than my original thoughts of a conveyor.
The various sections of the crane are shown below....
The pillar is made from 3 bus ticket roll centres stuck together (!) plus some plassticard oddments, washers and a small nail, the bucket part of an old film cannister + bent wire, the crane base the lid of the film cannister, and the jib from some plastic strip, washers and some running gear from a 1/72 German army half-track kit.
Once assembled and some more details added, the end result is this.........
The most expensive items on the whole coaling stage are the two resin cast coal sacks which I bought from a stand at the Stafford show!
I think the whole structure, including the aforementioned sacks and the figure must have cost less than £5, so I`m quite pleased with the result.
Starting pint was an offcut of MDF shelving which was mounted on a couple of pieces of scrap wood and then a base formed by surrounding it with plasticard sheet offcuts covered in corrugated paper, with the top of the base then clad with coffee stirrers...
The resulting structure was then painted and slightly weathered...
Attention then turned to how the coal was going to get to the loco tender from the stage, a decision being made to make a crane rather than my original thoughts of a conveyor.
The various sections of the crane are shown below....
The pillar is made from 3 bus ticket roll centres stuck together (!) plus some plassticard oddments, washers and a small nail, the bucket part of an old film cannister + bent wire, the crane base the lid of the film cannister, and the jib from some plastic strip, washers and some running gear from a 1/72 German army half-track kit.
Once assembled and some more details added, the end result is this.........
The most expensive items on the whole coaling stage are the two resin cast coal sacks which I bought from a stand at the Stafford show!
I think the whole structure, including the aforementioned sacks and the figure must have cost less than £5, so I`m quite pleased with the result.
