This is an RS Laserkit flat car with scratch built logs. The flat car itself is a straightforward build. It's laser cut wood, so the downsides are that it is really light (at least until you add your own weight to a cavity in the middle) and the rods underneath are pretty fragile. Construction is fine though. Here's the basic car, with the wood deck roughed up a bit, low stakes to help keep the logs on and some light weathering on the trucks:
On to the logs. These are made from wooden dowels and bamboo skewers, with Golden fiber paste applied for the bark texture. Here's a length of dowel with a slight taper whittled into it and the fiber paste applied:
Then I paint them brown (either spray paint or daubing on brown craft paint, both seem to work). I'm going for ponderosa pine logs and the bark has an orange tinge, so I sponge on some burnt orange craft paint. To simulate the cuts from felling the tree, I cut a wedge out from one side (picture below at that stage) and then cut through from the other side. Not every log gets that, most are just cut to length as the tree would be.
Here's how they look on the flat car. I may go back and add something for chain.
Plus, I have some stumps left over for future projects.
On to the logs. These are made from wooden dowels and bamboo skewers, with Golden fiber paste applied for the bark texture. Here's a length of dowel with a slight taper whittled into it and the fiber paste applied:
Then I paint them brown (either spray paint or daubing on brown craft paint, both seem to work). I'm going for ponderosa pine logs and the bark has an orange tinge, so I sponge on some burnt orange craft paint. To simulate the cuts from felling the tree, I cut a wedge out from one side (picture below at that stage) and then cut through from the other side. Not every log gets that, most are just cut to length as the tree would be.
Here's how they look on the flat car. I may go back and add something for chain.
Plus, I have some stumps left over for future projects.
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