Hudson Rugga Skip part 2

The start of a series of varying skips

Hudson Rugga Skip continued..

I have sort of jumped a bit ahead and will do a step by step over the next couple of days. In the gallery below are some photos of 3 skips in various stages of completion. (none are complete)

The vegetable transport or flatcar variant is 95% complete with some slight weathering left to do and the addition of the produce to the crates.

The water tank car is only 50% complete still requiring bracing and various details along with paint work. The paint is only the base coat.

The small gondola variant is about 75% complete, using one of Modelearth's resin castings for the upper portion.

The complete skip was cast in Brittania metal and is bolted together with 00-90 and 0-80 nuts and bolts. The wheel axles fit into sealed stainless bearings inset into the journals.

Mar10

Hudson Rugga Skip in 7/8ths

Categories // Rolling Stock

The start of a series of varying skips

Hudson Rugga Skip

Company: Robert Hudson Ltd.

The business was founded in 1865 by Robert Hudson at Gildersome, near Leeds. The Hudson family owned the local Victoria Colliery in Bruntcliffe, Morley. To improve access to the works a connection with the Great Northern Railway main line from Wakefield to Bradford was established in 1890 thus allowing raw materials and finished goods to be transported by rail. A head office was established in Meadow Lane, in the centre of Leeds, which was ideal for customers arriving by rail. This was principally the sales and design office.
The Gildersome works occupied a 38-acre (150,000 m2) site, and included an iron and steel foundry with two Bessemer furnaces, machine shops, erecting shops, pattern making and a detail drawing office. To transport material around the site a hand worked 2-foot (0.61 m) gauge tramway was used.

My Objective:

To produce a scale model in 7/8ths of the Hudson Rugga Skip.

Process:

For this project I have decided to master most of the parts for mold production using 3D Printed parts. For the 3D files I have been using Viacad Pro, for several reasons;

Affordability of the software ~ $250
Files are hot swapable between the PC and MAC - same file can be opened on both.
User interface unlike most cad software is the same engine as Turbocad. This means I do not have to figure out a new user ineterface and it is MAC compliant, unlike the majority of cad apps that were ported to the MAC platform.

Below is a gallery of the 3D file used to print the masters.

Part of the research is based on image searching on the internet. Below is a gallery of some of the images found in the search for reference material.