Just began work on Cyber-Hobby's #9114 German Railway Flatbed Typ Ommr (2 Axle). The finished kit will depict a rail car that has been sitting for a while with misc. stuff left in the rail car like tow cables, tracks, idler wheel and leaves and natural debri.

The kit provides the wooden bed in two pieces. I have scored and cut some boards to add a bit of dimension to the interior.



.....more to come.

Hi Iain, I like your idea here, Your Railcar is Lookin Good so far. I'll be following your build as I started one of these railcars a few months back and am now motivated to finish it. I am going to try useing balsa wood for the planking to get a real wood look/I'll see how that works out. Not sure as to what type cargo I will place on it yet. Wish me Luck ! milvehfan

Milvehfan;

Hey! I think if you are going to build in a real wood deck- it could look pretty cool hacked-up a bit and loaded with a small track- maybe one of those former French carriers (UE, Lorraine) or a Hotchkiss or Renault being used for anti-partisan work or being carried to some other place. The Ommr would be appropriate for truckin' one of these, or maybe a conversion like a Marder I... Of course all sorts of other stuff - cannons, trucks, supplies, maybe even a cast-concrete blockhouse piece (saw a pic just a few weeks ago of a pre-fab bunker piece parked along with an ex-French FT tank in what I think was an Ommr) "on its way to the Atlantic Wall" could be cool in this thing!

I've had a vague ambition for quite awhile now to park maybe a couple of Flak-38 2cm guns in one of these as a sort of impromptu flak car... One of the new crop of flakvierlings would also look pretty cool. But a swollen tank stash - which includes a few kits from yourself - argues against my dallying around in the RR biz!

Bob

Iain, Looking forward to seeing your updates here. I think its a pretty cool build.

Bob, Thanks for the input here.

milvehfan

I'll be watching this one

Hi Iain - How do you like the kit so far? I made the orange box Pershing a while back and thought it as pretty good value for what you got. Also, what size tank would this have been able to carry?

Hello all. Happy T-DAY!
Thank you for the feedback.
Bill: Personally, I am not a huge fan of the Orange Box kits but I seem to find myself building often! A few to many ejection marks etc. for me. I would rather be painting than building so I try to stay away from building projects. As for the tank it would carry, this one is more of a gondola car so it would carry "stuff" but the size of the bed is the same as the flat cars that would carry a Panzer III or IV I think. However, the example I am working on here is a "two axle" example and I am pretty sure that in order to carry the weight of a tank, a rail car would need to have something similar to the contemporary 4 axle-2 truck configuration. But please do the research, we can learn this stuff together. I have been doing a bit of RR homework but I am by no means an expert.

Nice start, Iain. I have the same kit waiting for the start. I´m planning to build it as a pusher car, used on armored trains, containing MG´s for infantry and placed on those open sidehatches. Plus some extra supplies, like fuel barrels, MG ammo boxes and spare road tires for Panhard armored car.