15 Ton Hoppers

[Drew Toner]

I've finished both of the Red Ball, Manns Creek hoppers. They are a combination of styrene and laser cut brass parts. They go together pretty good, but a lot of imagination is required. The directions for these is allmost as bad as for their skeleton log cars.

Her is a loaded one,

 

[Drew Toner]

And an MT

 

[Drew Toner]

and both together

 

[Tyson Rayles]

:thumb: :thumb: :thumb: Nice work Drew!

 

[jon-monon]

The directions for these is allmost as bad as for their skeleton log cars.
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Oh but they are so sweet when you get them finished! Nice job! :thumb: :thumb:

 

[Lighthorseman]

Wow!

:thumb: Beautiful!! :thumb:

 

[Drew Toner]

Thank You!

Yea, you guys are right, they turned out pretty good. For weight in the mt car, I left abit of rock in the bottom for an aditional 1/2 oz.
I debated making the doors operable, but after seeing that hinge bar/pin on the mt car, it's probably a good thing I didn'tops: ops:

Here is the car before weathering