Mine Trolley for Stop Motion by BouncyMonkey

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

Think Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Hoodwinked, and maybe some spy vs spy and you have an idea of what I have in mind for this model. When I look at some of the pictures of mine trolleys on the web, this looks nothing like them, but that's OK.
The overall dimensions are 65mm wide x 70mm tall x 140mm long. The track gauge is about 38mm. The wheels have reasonably wide flanges and so can ride on rails up to about 40mm between rail centrelines.
The box on top was made from iceblock sticks stuck together with PVA glue. There is nothing special about this. The iceblock sticks were painted with a sepia coloured brown acrylic house paint without undercoat. This allowed the paint to penetrate the wood nicely and give an aged stained look. I have not included an STL for this part seeing as it is so simple to construct anyway.
Things you will need in addition to the printed bits;
3 x 4mm rods of some sort for the axles. These are cut to 55mm long. I used dowel.
Popsicle sticks. The dimensions for the “planks” are provided here as a suggestion and are based on the standard popsicle stick size available here which are 10mm wide x 2mm thick x 113mm long.
13 x 100mm long planks
10 x 40mm planks
8 x 50mm planks
2 x 58mm planks
4 x 15mm planks

Small screw to hold on the control lever if you are using it.
1.5mm rod for the control lever
Some electrical tape or duct tape to made the handle on the control lever.
Glue. I use an epoxy glue, buy anything without too much flexibility will work.
In the model shown above, the channel sections used in the buffers were cardboard. This meant that I ended up with a slightly dinged up look to it, which suited the look I was after. The original digital model and all STLs include these channel sections.
When you print this you will end up with a handful of small components. Some assembly is required!
Included here is a pdf with this information together with assembly guide. I have also included an obj of the assembled model, and a .blend file.
I am putting my new models on Youmagine now as a preference, so head over there for a flying saucer.
Also the models are available on my website - Techmonkeybusiness.
Update 3rd Feb 2019
If you are looking for tracks to display it on, then have a look at these parametric track models. You will just need to set the track gauge to 36mm and sleeper length to 58mm to be compatible with this model.
Standard Straight Track https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3400628
Standard Curve Track https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3400642
OS-Railway Straight Track https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3400784
OS-Railway Curved Track https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3400779