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nkp_174 Wrote:Keep working on your designs and don't get discouraged! Study prototype photos/dimensions and try drawing a pair of trucks. You can do it!


Thanks for the encouragement NKP 174.

When and if I go to "market" with some kits I may attend some shows with a table and maybe a couple dozen?? kits or so to get them seen and in the hands of local modelers and a big sign with Shapeways and the "store" website. My idea behind the trucks is to design the floor/chassis in such a way that a modeler can use scale or hirail trucks. 3 main items I have left to design are the brake wheel, ladders and grab irons they will be separate prints or add ons from other suppliers. As you said paint is not that big of a deal and there are a few custom decal places out there that the modeler can go to. The doors and the slide things and the chassis are on paper but have yet to be drawn on the PC. If I can make the doors functioning that would be great but one could fix the door permanently open or closed, future designs may have doors printed in the closed position. I think I will stay with the S and O scale models for the time being. I already have a list of rollingstock that I could draw without too much trouble mostly box cars along with some gondolas and flats and you gotta have a caboose as well Icon_lol
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