Beer Wagon Progress, Part 2

More progress on the Beer Wagon:

I built the bed frame using 2.4mm angle beams from Plastruct. I cut the gas tank supports (the yellow rectangular parts) from the kit’s plastic bed, filed off the excess, and mounted them to the frame.

I carefully cut, filed, and sanded the indentions into the posts adjoining the wooden side panels. One slip would have meant creating a new post from scratch!

I notched the ends of the bed support beams to accept the thickness of the frame. Since the frontmost beam sits flush with the bed, I also notched the length of the beam.

I did some further work on the damaged front hood by scribing cracks with a hobby knife as well as adding trimmed jute to simulate the exposed glass fibers. I bent the front of the frame by heating it with a heat gun and pressing the handle of the hobby knife into the softened plastic.

I opened up the ends of the louvers on the hood using the BMC scriber. Here is a photo of the BMC scriber since I keep mentioning it. They are only sold in Japan (as far as I know). I purchased mine from Hobby Search.

I sanded off the kit’s molded-in skid plates and cut new ones from 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper.

I made new taillight supports from a .81mm brass rod. After drilling a hole partway through the taillight, I attached the support with super glue (Gorilla) and filled the original hole with solvent-softened kit sprue.

I have some more work done but haven’t taken photos yet. Stay tuned!