Pugsley's Workbench

Like the tag, and the implication that you're going to do this all over again on another 37. Nice job!

( it has been suggested that it may get confused, )

 

 

Cant get any more confused than you mate .

 

Nice work though , very impressed .

One thing I was wondering about, looking at the pictures: how are you going to paint it? I know you mentioned colouring the gears with pen, but are you going to paint the whole thing, just the sideframes, or some other combination? It seems like there are lots of working parts and fine tolerances to deal with.

Thanks Mike!

 

Thanks Will, I like 37's too much to only contemplate building one, but it'll be some time before the second gets built (most likely a split box one). In a word, I'm going to have to paint it carefully! It'll be sprayed, but I'll be making extensive use of masking fluid to ensure that I don't paint the parts that should be painted.

 

All of the moving parts are now oiled, so any paint shouldn't stick to those parts anyway. It looks quite cool as it is, it'll almost be a shame to paint it!

Looks great, all your hard work has paid off. Does it run as well as you had hoped?

 

Cheers Peter.

What a fantastic piece of work!

Thanks Peter. I'm not entirely sure if it does run as I hoped, as running it up and down a desk, wired up to a Hornby controller, didn't really give a good indication of how well it's going to work. I think it should be OK, but I won't really know until I manage to get it on a test track.

 

Cheers GWRfan.

I guess it's going to be hard to tell until you get both fired up together and under the chassis. Looking forwards to it.

 

Cheers Peter.

Me too! It shouldn't be too long now, with any luck, although I haven't done anything to it this weekend.