So here are all the new parts for a more legit looking bogie assembly, I had debated whether to leave the axle box as part of the side plate but while it makes for one less separate part it is infinitely harder to assemble what with juggling three axles and the end beams and the cross brace lining it all up is a pain, unless you have three or four hands.So I decided to do the axle boxes separate which is more like the real SSYMS car, it also allows the axles to be dropped into. place after the other parts have been assembled.
The picture shows the axle boxes still in place. I added a little detail which they may have had or not The Krupp Logo, they were after all the largest Steel producer in Germany at the time. The logo is raised on the inside on the outside it will be inset. This is a different bogie plate from the one in the previous picture I uploaded. I was not happy with what I had done initially so I spent a bunch more time trying to clean up the drawing.
I converted the drawing into an outline which when imported, I used as the reinforcement edge for the flat plate. When I test printed the plate the edge was too thin, so I went around the edge with beams and made the edge thick enough to print properly and to be strong enough to support some weight.
The green cross bar has tabs to help align things and the sides have matching slots, I added those as that structure is where the weight is transferred and just a glue joint probably would not hold that well.
I am slowly getting closer to assembly, I just have to stop improving the parts I already made.
Steve