I know this forum section does not have the most scratchbuilders but the topic of O scale 86 Hy-Cube box cars was started here....so I'll post this here too....
Today I got the major assembly completed on my version of a 86 foot Hy-Cube car. I say my version because it is totally freelance car. I wanted to knock this one out fast just to see how big the thing would be and how well it would run on O-72 track. I found the basic car info on the net and simplified a few things and used designs from other cars that were easy to build over a 100% correct Hy-Cube. There are a few guys on the scale area of this fourmm that build fantastic scale cars that are correct but I built mine to see if I could do it!! Mine is also set up to operate, I hope, on O-72 track and thus has minimal underframe details. The trucks are Atlas Roller Bearing trucks with rotating caps. I have had to alter the coupler mount and will finalize it soon.....made them long as too short is harder to fix! Have not decided what paint it will get but more than likely fictitious as to match the cars heritage! Frame is 1/4" poplar topped with an inner structure of matt board. Sheet styrene .040 think was cut and applied over the matt for exterior shell. Weld seams are .020 rod. Basic but I like it. I have enough frame and body parts for another but will see how this one does before building it. Thanks!!
