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More work on 16 ton Minerals


Fen End Pit

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Thursday night saw the bodies of the wagons fitted and Friday evening was spent fitting weight and Alex Jackson couplings. Still need to fit the dropper wires for the coupling.

 

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I realized that having removed the toy hinges for the side doors I needed to replace them with something more to scale. A few pieces of plasticard from the scrap box were enough to fabricate something suitable. Painting was by brush with Humbrol acrylics.

 

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Transfers from the Modelmaster range were applied this afternoon, the only concern I had was that the white diagonal line on the transfer sheet looked incredibly wide. I reduced the thickness to about a scale 4 inches. I put a bit of Railmatch matt varnish over the transfers to avoid them coming off later.

 

Finally I've started the weathering with various washes of dilute dark rust and black, still a little way to go to even out some of the lines which look a bit too defined. A final spray with some frame dirt will be next.

 

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Not bad for a 30 year old kit.

 

David

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No not bad at all. The old Airfix kits can be made into really decent models. I've got a couple of cattle wagons which I must do!

 

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Nick

 

 

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Transfers from the Modelmaster range were applied this afternoon, the only concern I had was that the white diagonal line on the transfer sheet looked incredibly wide.

 

Thank goodness I'm not the only one - it always amazes me how many folk use them without alterationblink.gif

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Thank goodness I'm not the only one - it always amazes me how many folk use them without alterationblink.gif

They must be about 50% wider than they should be!

 

It never ceases to amaze me how good the Airfix wagon kits can be made to look. Given a spot of detailing you'd never know they were pushing 50 years old.

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Thank goodness I'm not the only one - it always amazes me how many folk use them without alterationblink.gif

 

A nice new scalpel blade does the job (though getting two the same width is 'interesting'. The other thing worth remembering is that the stripes aren't quite right - they didn't generally go all the way from corner to corner but stoped short with squared ends. The Airfix mineral was apparently a 1961 release so its half-century will be next year.

 

Adam

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The other thing worth remembering is that the stripes aren't quite right - they didn't generally go all the way from corner to corner but stoped short with squared ends.

 

And as ever, study of (too manyrolleyes.gif) photos will reveal other variations

 

 

 

The Airfix mineral was apparently a 1961 release so its half-century will be next year.

 

 

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The other thing worth remembering is that the stripes aren't quite right - they didn't generally go all the way from corner to corner but stoped short with squared ends. The Airfix mineral was apparently a 1961 release so its half-century will be next year.

 

Adam

They didn't stop short of the corner as they didn't aim there (generally and officially noting Pennine's point), the line stops at the top of the end door and is a diagonal from that point to the bottom corner of the section. See : http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/p52574486.html for a new example though most of Paul's pictures show the same after some use.

 

I don't tend to use a transfer for the line but paint between two lines of masking tape giving me something that distresses a bit better. The basis of mine is Bachmann or Parkside though as i'm not old enough to have a cupboard of Airfix costing pennies ;). Wooden minerals this year though in general, steel next year once i've done the chassis!

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They do look remarkably good, considering the age of the kit. Amazing what a bit of extra effort can bring.

 

I have to admit to being old enough to have a cupboard full of these kits - although I haven't! I do have one or two built, including original Studiolith rocking W-irons and wheels. Unfortunately, I didn't make any improvements to the mouldings, so I might have to re-visit these (they've never been finished/painted, to at least address the door hinges. They might then do as a stop-gap till i can do something better. I'll keep an eye out for Craigs steel mineral chassis, then.

 

Dave.

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The other thing worth remembering is that the stripes aren't quite right - they didn't generally go all the way from corner to corner but stoped short with squared ends. The Airfix mineral was apparently a 1961 release so its half-century will be next year. Adam
They didn't stop short of the corner as they didn't aim there (generally and officially noting Pennine's point), the line stops at the top of the end door and is a diagonal from that point to the bottom corner of the section. See : http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/p52574486.html for a new example though most of Paul's pictures show the same after some use.

 

Simply to add, quite correct. That is the official instruction, they go to alongside the top hinge, not the corner.

Paul Bartlett

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...and now you have all pointed this out to me I guess I'm just going to have to change all of them because now I know it looks wrong to me. Sometime ignorance really is bliss! This will teach me to forget the first rule and not have a decent photograph in front of me when I build something.

 

Still I just reversed a train of 10 minerals back over the single slip and into the goods loop and nothing came off. Says a lot of Bill Bedford's sprung W-irons and a back-to-back gauge.

 

David

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