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More on the caboose build. I am actually done with it for now. Need to snap a pic of the finished model. 


I am using Tyco chassis pieces and trucks and couplers. Never look underneath my models as you'll see all kinds of weird crap under there. I kept the steps even though a real caboose of this kind had stirrups, but who cares. 


Doing Crap building is like doing a puzzle. Everything needs to fit and sometimes to save hassle I don;t exactly follow the plans. One thing I did was to eye how many boards across the end piece would be. It turned out that my scribed wood was a perfect fit. I also did the same board count on my side pieces and just winged the length which is within inches of the real thing.


This brand of scribed wood is brilliant because it is as thick as an individual board and saved me a lot of trouble matching things up on the corners.


As you can see the chassis is hidden underneath some wood planks which also raises the model a tiny bit. I have not measured to see how it would compare to the real thing.

This odd picture is of my roof piece getting steamed over my stove top tea pot.


And here you see it after the steam bending. It took about 30 seconds and was ten times easier than expected.

now onto other cool train things like that PIER baggage car. It should be a blast to build. 

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