Wheeltapper 2011

Winner of Freight and Engineers Stock Non UK

Mick Moingard's D&RGW Gondola 1872 in HOn3

Description: Scratch-built. Wooden superstructure and underframe, with scribed lead floor for weigth and operation. Details are a mixiture of scratchbuilt parts and some commerical plastic parts from Grandt Line. Nut/bolt/washer castings used for each grabiron. Complete underframe detail, break gear, etc. Grandt Line trucks and Kadee couplers. Painted with an airbrush and weathered with washes, powders and real dirt. Drawings and info from Model Railroader articles, Sloan Century + 10 block and multitudinous photos.