im sure you can guess now! progress has been pretty sharpish, i reckon i'll have this finished in a couple of days time, provided i dont run out of supplies!
if you cant quite figure it out, this is what im going for...
using the Bachmann class 20 as a base made sense really, it has the same wheelbase both on bogies and overall, and although not a convincing class 20 the chassis runs superb! more updates later, now the tricky bit...bogie sides
time spent on this site has been rare of late, with time being spent on 1:1 projects and whatnot, ive completely neglected the railways
however! ive been struck with a case of 'man flu' and sent home from work for the next 2 weeks, so i broke out the toolbox and started chopping stuff up for a planned locomotive ive wanted to model for aaaaages!
im not going to say what it is, or is going to be just yet, but your welcome to guess
i have a more 'get stuck in...oh i should take photos' aft
..and its built.
spent yesterday evening on 2 kits for a diesel/fuel depot i probably wont ever get round to modelling a Dapol Tank wagon, and the Knightwing diesel shunter
the Dapol kit, being the old airfix model, required a bit of tidying up, nothing major like just some sanding and filing to get the tank halves together proper, yet was finished within 20 mins, added 3 link couplings, then thanks to the brilliantly easy paint scheme 2 minutes to paint and half an hour to dry!
has anyone found a more effective method to clean wheels other than picking the darn thing up, breaking loads of the tiny details off you spend ages adding, only to spend another half hour with 1000grit sandpaper and a 9v battery
there must be a better way?
i find it quite hard to keep up with myself, i'll post an idea or a plan on here, then completely neglect to update because im so engrossed in buidling whatever it is im building. so this time im going to try be a bit less distractable and actually keep a regular record of my latest frankenstein.
i started building a small layout, made a baseboard on the budget of £0.00...
skips really are your best friend, you can find quite lengthy offcuts or boards that have served their purpose to the
after my last layout, a planned GWR branchline was completely ruined by a leaky garage roof, and when i say ruined that could be counted as an understatement, a torrential downpour, me not investigating for a couple of days then going to 'play trains' to find using MDF as a baseboard was a bad idea, track really does corrode, and gaugemaster controls go bang when they get wet. as a result i packed up all the surviving parts into a box and forgot about railways for a time. its like anything, once
