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Picked up a Bachmann Old Timer combine to see if I could steal its trucks for the CB&Q waycar. Have some mechanicals to sort out with it still but looks a lot better than the stock Bettendorf freight trucks already.
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Busy day at Havelock.
CBQ converted heavyweight business car The Round-Up rolls out late at night, with interior lighting and detail parts installed.
BN 724, an anachronistic EMD F7A that has been sitting in the shops for at least 20 years awaiting a completed coupler conversion, can finally form a train again.
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So in my new adventures in CAD-as-code design, screenshot for a current WIP for a CBQ Wood Frame Passenger Truck No 7 is below.
I used build123d to construct the model in Python, and FreeCAD and jdegenstein's fork of jmwright's fork of CadQuery's CQ-editor for visualisation
I got this far using CBQ Diagram No's 8621-A and 9915-B, and CAD render of a very detailed model from Dale Grice, who way back when built an excellent 1.6 scale set of the trucks.
The end goal is to make them good enough to 3D print for N Scale (1:16) for use with metal wheelsets, and use on some kitbashed and/or scratchbuilt Q waycars ("cabooses".