Another mine car

[ASC Mclaren]

So, instead of building or designing Halloween themed stuff, I am working on mine stuff. My father and brother just returned from Butte, MT with plenty of pictures, so here I am. My father saw the previous ore car, and said "You should make the two holer." So, here it is. You should figure out the importance this piece of equipment had deep in the mines.

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

This is an interesting project!
I will be following it!
Are you going to be making a series of different mining cars?

 

[Revell-Fan]

Interesting choice indeed. I haven't seen such a mine car before. Is it your design?

 

[ASC Mclaren]

RB, I'm thinking that I'll practice designing a few more mine car (Explosives car, another ore car, pneumatic engine, pneumatic mucker, maybe a mine skip and a jack leg) before trying to do more fun subjects. I would like to tackle a head frame in 1:18 too.
R-F, This was a request from my father, and it is modeled after a car at the World Museum of Mining in Butte. The basic design appears to be fairly common in the American west.

 

[Revell-Fan]

Thanks for the info! I am more familiar with the ones we Germans call "Lore":

source: http://www.drehgestelle.de/6/13_okak_055_08363_lore.jpg

 

[ASC Mclaren]

R-F, check this site out, it's a hard rock mine from Arizona, but much of the information is the same as mining in Butte:
http://www.bisbeeminingandminerals.com/#!mining-equipment/cbvo

 

[ASC Mclaren]

So, I finished the alpha build. I made several adjustments to the plans. The next step with both this and the ore car will be transferring the files from .DXF to .PDF then texturing, which will be a learning curve.

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

That looks GREAT!!!