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Step 12Brew some Coffee and Drink it as You Plan Design Features Not-planned-for
NOTE -- 2 photos, and the end returns to the start.
1. Set it all up and contemplate. You have done a good thing. No one can say anything against it. If they do, you will know they are of no account, and that is a very cheap lesson indeed, good for the rest of your life.
2. Drill holes at end of cab and front of carriage to link the two. I just tied them with a nylon rope knotted under the holes, with enough length that a child could not crush his/her finger in the coupling, but not enough to use the unit as a choking device. Kids these days, you never know. The average cartoon nowadays portrays garottings and such, eh? A joke; I hope I'm wrong.
3. Now comes the part I can't well explain. I changed my mind at the last minute about the flatbed carriage, shortened the rails, added a structure at the end, to form a unique combined flat-bed/caboose, new to the world of trains. Then I forgot to photograph those steps. Sorry about that.
4. So now just design a caboose-thingie if you want.
4a. Cut out the 3/4 pine for the side walls (this time remember to drill window holes, which are cute).
4b Cut out other pine for the roof. I extended the roof past the walls to form a porch for the imaginary people, since somethimes it is good to have a roof over your head without the Depressing Enclosing Walls of Cubicle Life around you. If you provide for imaginary people, you might well carry the lesson into a less surreal world.
4c Create other untested and perhaps untestable hypotheses about the implications of your project as done at the end of step 4b. Hypotheses go a long way toward rounding out the human experience.
4d. Test fit, round all edges, glue, clamp, blah blah blah.
4e. Sand.
5. Paint some parts (engine red) and clear-finish other parts. I left some parts clear finished to show the wood off (if you ask why, then I am shocked and dismayed). I painted other areas to be bright and happy to inject a bit of that into someone's childhood.
In general, I left clear finish over parts most likely to be touched by hand and knocked about, becuase the model will look better for longer.
6. Do not build the train exactly as I show here. That will result in more sameness, which will not help grow additional neuron connections in our brains. Instead, change something in each step. Add your own features. Change something here and there. That way, this instructable will have served a purpose but also contributed to difference of various kinds. Difference helps us grows more neuron connections. --wt
1. Set it all up and contemplate. You have done a good thing. No one can say anything against it. If they do, you will know they are of no account, and that is a very cheap lesson indeed, good for the rest of your life.
2. Drill holes at end of cab and front of carriage to link the two. I just tied them with a nylon rope knotted under the holes, with enough length that a child could not crush his/her finger in the coupling, but not enough to use the unit as a choking device. Kids these days, you never know. The average cartoon nowadays portrays garottings and such, eh? A joke; I hope I'm wrong.
3. Now comes the part I can't well explain. I changed my mind at the last minute about the flatbed carriage, shortened the rails, added a structure at the end, to form a unique combined flat-bed/caboose, new to the world of trains. Then I forgot to photograph those steps. Sorry about that.
4. So now just design a caboose-thingie if you want.
4a. Cut out the 3/4 pine for the side walls (this time remember to drill window holes, which are cute).
4b Cut out other pine for the roof. I extended the roof past the walls to form a porch for the imaginary people, since somethimes it is good to have a roof over your head without the Depressing Enclosing Walls of Cubicle Life around you. If you provide for imaginary people, you might well carry the lesson into a less surreal world.
4c Create other untested and perhaps untestable hypotheses about the implications of your project as done at the end of step 4b. Hypotheses go a long way toward rounding out the human experience.
4d. Test fit, round all edges, glue, clamp, blah blah blah.
4e. Sand.
5. Paint some parts (engine red) and clear-finish other parts. I left some parts clear finished to show the wood off (if you ask why, then I am shocked and dismayed). I painted other areas to be bright and happy to inject a bit of that into someone's childhood.
In general, I left clear finish over parts most likely to be touched by hand and knocked about, becuase the model will look better for longer.
6. Do not build the train exactly as I show here. That will result in more sameness, which will not help grow additional neuron connections in our brains. Instead, change something in each step. Add your own features. Change something here and there. That way, this instructable will have served a purpose but also contributed to difference of various kinds. Difference helps us grows more neuron connections. --wt
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