Scotia Scale models rolling stock

[cnrglen]

Thanks Wayne. I finished up the truss rod construction and I thought I'd give a bit of a blow-by-blow



The kit came with some thin, clear fishing line for the truss rods, I replaced it with some black beading line of the same thickness.
I first anchored the line on one side using some 1/16 x 1/16 stripwood (following the instructions) I used 5 minute epoxy to hold the line and blocks down.



After that had dried, I threaded each of the lines over 1 of the queen posts and blocked and glued them down on the other side.



when that side had dried I carefully lifter the line into the other queenpost. The tension created pulled each line tight and fairly straight.



Then it was just a matter of gluing the turnbuckles into place and it's done. Another way I could have done it was to drill through the floor and pull the thread up. I could have gotten away with this since I'm planning to add a permanent load to the car. Now I have to start looking at adding the braking systems.