Barnum Saloons, Part I
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Well. I wasn't anticipating a break away from locos and rolling stock for quite that long.
Since I finished the Pollitt saddle tank back in January, I've built a 1/600 RMS Mauretania, an entry for the Cakebox Challenge and most recently been working on a "Your Model Railway Village" station building, trying to convert it into some goods offices but more crucially turn it into a structure that could actually have been built.
This last is an on-going project and I've frankly had to put it down and turn my attentions to something else because spending two or three weeks just on the windows and doors almost drove me out of my skull. I could feel the project stalling.... so put it down, do something else and pick it up again in a while.
One of the projects I've been itching to do for some time is some proper GCR rolling stock. I've got a few Jidenco etched brass kits for Barnum Saloons which I've had for a few years, but the lack of availability of matching brake thirds rather put me off looking at them. I have a thing about models looking 'of a hand'- that is to say everything modelled to an identical standard- and I felt that matching up etched brass carriages with scratchbuilt plastic ones would not be following that maxim.
Added to that, a few years ago JCL of this parish built a Barnum saloon using a silhouette cutter and very kindly made his drawing files available for download- see his Wainsfleet thread. Now, I have a silhouette cutter and to be honest these last few years I haven't really made as much use of it as I would like. Something to do with my spending all day drawing as my job, and then not wanting to come home to do a bit of modelling and- yes!- doing more drawing. So as a gentle breaking-in I thought I would build a couple of Barnum saloons from the existing drawings.
Currently I have cut and assembled the carriage sides. I have cut one bogie (I didn't realise that only one bogie was drawn on the file!) and so I'm now cutting out a second bogie. Then there are the carriage ends, the floor and the seating to cut.
This is a project I'm rather looking forward to. My intentions are to build a pair of the saloons and then have a go at building a pair of the brakes.
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