Modelling Louvres
When it comes to scratchbuilding louvres have always terrified me. I guess that’s quite an admission seeing that I used to scratchbuild quite complex and detailed wagons in N scale … but louvres always scared me witless.
If I needed a wagon that had louvres I either did without or bought one in kit form.
BUT now I’m not so scared of louvres because in the latest edition of Narrow Gauge Downunder … July 2011 … there’s an article on scratchbuilding a louvre van in O scale by Mal Carroll.
The way the author goes about building his louvres is simple and looks relatively easy … even in smaller scales and now I’m itching to find some spare time to get back to my hobby desk and give Mal’s method a try.
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