Hop 2 It

Another session with the South African ballast hoppers today, at the end of which I have two frames and the basic shells of the hoppers completed.



I've built the hopper shells out of 30" styrene, but as extra insurace against warping the sides have been backed with pieces of 60" sheet. I'll be damned if that will lose its shape!



The backing pieces won't show up on the finished wagons because I'll be representing them both as fully loaded.

So far they've come together very swiftly but, on these two especially, the devil really is going to be in the detailing.