Nachoman's Orphan challenge

[nachoman]

Here is a photo of what I am starting with. Looks like the first thing I need to do is make slope sheets, but it looks like I have no more scraps of this illustration board.

   

After looking at my roster, i intended to make 4 of these, and did them mostly assembly line style. I am not sure why I never completed the fourth one. Maybe I ran out of some component.

I started these cars when I first went to graduate school. I had moved into my new place, but my trains and hobby tools had not arrived yet - and I was bored! So, I found a plan for a wood hopper car in a 1950s era model railroader that I had brought, and went up to the art supply store and bought a piece of illustration board, bought a hobby knife from the hardware store, some glue, and stripwood from a local hobby shop that was geared mostly to the r/c crowd.