10-11-2017, 01:37 PM
nachoman Wrote:I'm really starting to get the hang of this!
Here is a tender frame I made for HOn2 2-8-0 tenders.....
Nice if you can afford it, I suppose, but a sheet of Evergreen scribed siding (and perhaps a similar-sized sheet of thicker styrene onto which it could be cemented for increased thickness) would be cheaper and likely give you enough material to build similar frames for a number of locomotives. The cutting and assembly would likely take less time for all of the required frames than what was spent doing the drawing for the one shown.
I do see applications where 3-D printing could be useful, but I wouldn't have chosen it for such a simple shape.
Wayne