Nachoman 2010 bash challenge - passenger car

[nachoman]

As Wayne says, it is better to have something under the car rather than leave it blank. So, after studying as many diagrams and photos as i could find, I set out to make something "plausible". Likely, I will never meet an expert on circa 1900 passenger car brake systems, so the chance of being nitpicked is small . The reality is, the car just has to look good from the side. the original cast-on brake parts from the two model power car halves would be difficult to carve away, so I had to simply sand them flush with the floor beams. The remnants of those cast-on details will always be visible when the car is turned upside down. Again, if it looks good from the side, few people will be an expert enough to say it is wrong. It will at least be much better than my other passenger cars!

I pulled a bunch of bits from my scrap bin to make the main components. The brake cylinder is some kind of crude casting that was likely cut from a cheapo bachmann or tyco car. I had to clean up the casting a bit. The air reservoir is a piece of sprue with some thin styrene strapping. The triple valve is some kind of fribbitz I found in the scrap bin. I don't know what kind of detail part it is supposed to be, but I decided it looked "close enough". Again, most people will be none-the-wiser. The remainder of the levers and rods will be bits of styrene and brass rod.