Scratch Building Parts for the Chama Coaling Tower with Evergreen Plastic

We have been working on the Chama coaling tower in 1:20.3 scale for the last few months. This week we are scratch building the coal grates and coal buckets with Evergreen plastic. Our current Covid project is the large scale Chama coaling tower for the locomotive shop on the indoor section of our indoor-outdoor large scale railroad. While mostly built from wood, some of the detail parts need to be built from plastic and brass. The coal grates are made from strips and “I“ beam shapes with angle plastic and