As a rookie with low budget in this great hobby, and having a few rolling stock cars and locomotives, I have thought it would be nice to try a different type of vehicle - so I decided to make a draisine (as we call this type of rail cars in Europe).
This is the original vehicle, as far as I know it's a Polish vehicle - AGMa its name, also used in Romania, Russia and probably a few other countries.
(Photos by my Romanian fellow modelist Sogard2003 - thanks! )
So, I started using ordinary materials, some plastic (for the chassis and the crane arm), wire (thin for suspension "wings" plus brake shoes, and steel wire for the other things), a little bit of cardboard (for the cylinders on the chassis belly) and super-glue.
And then, a better painting...
You may also notice some round thingies on the crane arm - a cog-wheel and two pairs of nuts (taken from a clock - I gave the nuts a round shape using a nail file, as I had not four real little wheels).
And finally, some other details attached and... voila! It's alive! IT'S ALIVE !!!
Thank you for watching.
Chris
This is the original vehicle, as far as I know it's a Polish vehicle - AGMa its name, also used in Romania, Russia and probably a few other countries.
(Photos by my Romanian fellow modelist Sogard2003 - thanks! )
So, I started using ordinary materials, some plastic (for the chassis and the crane arm), wire (thin for suspension "wings" plus brake shoes, and steel wire for the other things), a little bit of cardboard (for the cylinders on the chassis belly) and super-glue.
And then, a better painting...
You may also notice some round thingies on the crane arm - a cog-wheel and two pairs of nuts (taken from a clock - I gave the nuts a round shape using a nail file, as I had not four real little wheels).
And finally, some other details attached and... voila! It's alive! IT'S ALIVE !!!
Thank you for watching.
Chris
