HOn3 cars for TrainNut

[nachoman]

After multitudes of distractions, I have gotten back to work on the boxcars. I have the tedious work done - the grab irons and the brake rigging. These cars are loaded with tiny detail on the brake rigging that breaks easily (no pun intended) If you can closely in one of the pics, one of the brake levers disintegrated so I made a new one out of styrene. The instructions did not indicate making brake rods, so I made those out of brass wire. The trouble with HOn3 cars is that full brake rigging sometimes interferes with truck swing and truss rods. I have found this is more true with HOn3 than with HO standard gauge. So, I didn't attempt to make a hand brake rod attach to the long brake lever because I was worried it may interfere with the functionality of the car. On the bottom of such a tiny car, it wouldn't be seen anyway unless the car was picked up and turned upside down.

   

I got the grab irons installed, the truss rods in place and glued the tops to the bottoms Next up is the remaining body details.