Another mine car

ASC Mclaren · Sep 26, 2014

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 · Sep 27, 2014

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

Revell-Fan · Sep 27, 2014

Interesting choice indeed.

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

ASC Mclaren · Sep 27, 2014

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 · Sep 27, 2014

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 · Sep 27, 2014

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 · Sep 28, 2014

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.