Scratch building Pipe loads

We’ll build a pipe load from aluminum rods found at a scrap yard at the time it was 36’ of rod for $3. And well lightly weather a gon for the load.

[@ModelingSteelinHO]

Excellent tutorial ! Going on my build list. Thank you. Long live Southern Railway.

[@dandrake1372]

Super nice pipe loads. I’ve got 4 gondolas to fill up with pipe! Looks great.

[@wasatchrangerailway6921]

I like your work! You are exacting and patient!

[@Greatdome99]

Since that's a simple Athearn car, I would disassemble the underframe and couplers from the carbody for more effective paint coverage.

[@farmerdave7965]

for my pipe loads I use those red coffee stirrers that I get from Circle K. I paint them gray and they look like pipes.

[@giulius7176]

Simple method...Great result!!

[@moregltfirephotography4857]

Very nice! I live on the EX PLE I wish I could have been alive back then

[@njRRtrainer]

Great job.. Many thanks..

[@user-mp2tl8zv2t]

Hallo. Very good video. 👍 🤝

[@paulrmatzke298]

Was is your cribbing match sticks? At the end of the video, you stated you out some kind of coating over it, what was used?

[@billbarnes8192]

Try Rustoleum camouflage brown , it’s kind of a black / brown I think you might like the effect

[@w.rustylane5650]

Why not just use a drinking straw as it's the right inside diameter? Cheers from eastern TN

[@brockjames8920]

Nice

[@robertneirynck3186]

Very nice job.👍,what about the weight?

[@natman242]

any updates on the layout love the caboose.

[@dannydanbo58]

What size and type of pipe did you start with?

[@whiteknightcat]

Scraping the interior of the pipes is not making the diameter smaller. It's increasing the inside diameter by making the wall thickness thinner. Too bad there wasn't a drill bit that could have done the same thing.

[@mgamga9476]

What color was that rust color. I have rust but yours looks better