Borkum Match - Powder van started

This article was published Sep 05, 2015.

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My new cutter now works so well I started making real parts for my first Powder van from RAR (Royal Arsenal Railway).

Above and first photo below shows (almost) all pieces needed to assemble a powder van in Fn18 scale.

Second and third photo shows the bogies finally assembled. The gray will be for the van, black and lime-green I am not sure yet..

A friend gave me a good tip on how to lubricate FUD and FXD. You use a normal pencil since it contains graphite which is a very good lubricant. After paint but before assembly I first smooth of the axles and axle boxes with fine sandpaper and then put on as much as I can from a pencil. A quick check before glue is added to the assembly and I get very smooth rolling bogies without pinpoint metal axles.

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