There was a recent thread about working with styrene and this is an example of what a great modeling medium that it is. I had to have some cast end beams for a Louisville & Nashville caboose. One of the great qualities of styrene is how something like this can be fabricated with ease. This was just bits & pieces of dimensional styrene that was sanded to shape with added details.
The pictures show the progression of the process.
Beautiful and simple sir!
Sometimes, I wander why everything isn't made from styrene! I love working with it too! I truly believe the reason HO scale has so much stuff available is the ease of working with styrene allowed the early prototype modelers to modify the available styrene shells which in turn drove an emerging market for detail parts which in turn drove a demand for more detail and more shells! Kind of a snowball effect. For all the amazing models produced from brass, it just isn't the everyday, home builder, easy to start and learn material that styrene is.
Thanks for the teaching moment Brother Love!
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