---
type: Article
title: Stanton Coach chassis progress
description: Designing a chassis for an OO9 Stanton Coach — weighing up kraft board, etched brass, and 3D printing before settling on the obvious answer.
resource: https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2023-05-23-stanton-coach-chassis-progress/
tags: [Shorticles, Modelling]
timestamp: 2023-05-23
---

I have knocked up a 3D chassis for the Stanton Coach I am designing.

![CAD drwing of design for chassis to fit the Stanton Coach](/assets/img/content/stanton-coach-chassis-009.png)

I am on about v 3 of the coach bodywork at the moment and after a lot of thought around the chassis and how to create it including from kraft board, etched parts (which I may yet still do) and the 3D print option whihch on reflection seems the simplest and obvious one! This is designed for a pair of bogies to be fitted with bolts as is common in 4mm scale 009 coach modelling.

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