WARP 10 Car Kits

[Schraddel]

Hello,

now the single AT&SF boxcar.


The body was halfway mounted and the next task was to build the underframe.
Besides the truck bolsters there are pieces of structural sills. 





Still here no real starting point was given by the kit and the instructions were rather cryptic.
The thick longitudual sills have flanges and i presume they should display steel "I" beams. But the flanges were extreme thin castings an for this very delicate. No wonder they brittled away during handling for mounting.





To repair this lasting i cut 2 stripes of 0.3mm styrene and glued them onto the damaged sills.
Also here 3-point equalisation.





Coupler height check.





Then i started for drilling the bores for the queen posts. This was done in a multi stage process, starting witth 0,8mm drill bits, continued with 1.2mm and at least with 1.5mm. This preserves the sills to crack.