Bit of a mish mash
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Evening all
One of the nice things about our hobby is we can decide to do something completely different if the mood takes us, so in a break from layout building I decided I needed to build some whitemetal wagons.
A fruit C/D and Southern Open from David Geen and a diag AA16 (I think) brake van) from D&S I've had lurking in the cupboard for a while.
As they're all P4 I decided they needed some form of compensation or springing. In the end the brake van is compensated using the original parts and the other two sprung with Bill Bedford W irons.
Not completed, but they're getting there. The brake van needed new solebars forming from channel to allow room for the rocking W irons.
The bridge is showing the effects of filling and scribing the stones to join the PECO stone sheets I've been using. I think the technique is going to be ok for the station building but more of that anon.
I try and spend some time at the tinking table every day if I can get away with it, even if it's only 10 minutes or so and the next couple of wagons have benefited from this. They're both RTR and as they're hoppers, in both cases I've decided not to spring but compensate with a sloppy axle and add quite a bit of weight. The Hornby ex LNER coal hopper has had a bit of work done to get the wheels in. They said the Heljan dogfish couldn't be re-wheeled to P4, well it can and without major dramas. The trick is to file quite a bit of the pin points off the axles before putting the wheels back in. Cheddar's going to need quite a few of these and I wanted to see if I could find a way of not having to build them all out of Cambrian kits with the individual spring axle boxes I added for the one on Wheal Elizabeth. Don't worry, it's going to get repainted!
Lastly, I've made a start on some of the trees that will be gracing Clevedon using armatures from a mixture of paper coated wire and ordinary stranded stuff. Long way to go yet but I thought I'd better start since I'll be demonstrating some of this scenic work at Expo Em in a couple of weeks!! Method copied straight out of Gordon Gravett's book. He's a clever chap isn't he?!
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