jonhall Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Yes, another distraction..... Laser cut in 2mm acrylic, a set of frames for a 4mm clyde puffer from the Geoff Axon drawings, and cut on the laser at richmondmakerlabs.uk Irritatingly I dropped the keel getting out of the car so broke its back and lost the propeller protection, but his was only an experiment... Clear acrylic is not the easiest thing to photograph jon 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted December 18, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2015 How does the rest of it come together? Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 *cue Para Handy quotes* Seriously, though, that looks very interesting. Will watch this one as it develops Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 How does the rest of it come together? Ah, well, yes.... I've not entirely got that far yet. The front runner would be to fit a thin plasticard backstop about 4-5mm behind the finished surface, and then fill each inter-frame gap with a bit of car body filler using the frames as a former to skim to. Then add laser cut plywood decks? I'm not sure really - this was more an experiment than anything else - what I need now a re small coastal freighter hull and frame plans, or a set of train ferry plans! Jon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
teetrix Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Clever modes makes a Clyde Puffer as a card model download (little bit to scroll): http://clevermodels.squarespace.com/models-gallery/ A card model of a bigger freight ship by scalescenes: http://scalescenes.com/product/t030-cargo-ship/ A train ferry drawing at Gilbert Gribris homepage: http://www.gilbert-gribi.ch/GGribi/pdf/Ferry1.pdf Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taigatrommel Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 http://www.conys-modellbau.de/schiffsmodelle.html Not British I grant you, but they look to be good and have a few train ferries. You could use them as guides for larger scale models, as this modeller has done, increasing the scale from 1:160 to 1:120. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 Clever modes makes a Clyde Puffer as a card model download (little bit to scroll): http://clevermodels.squarespace.com/models-gallery/ A card model of a bigger freight ship by scalescenes: http://scalescenes.com/product/t030-cargo-ship/ I don't like the compression on the clever models 'puffer' at all, but the scalescenes freighter is more or less what I had in mind - just as a frame plan for laser cutting and building up solid, rather than in card. http://www.conys-modellbau.de/schiffsmodelle.html Not British I grant you, but they look to be good and have a few train ferries. You could use them as guides for larger scale models, as this modeller has done, increasing the scale from 1:160 to 1:120. Interesting but I should have really said the 3x WD/Great Eastern Train Ferry 1-3 - they are too early for me, and wrong region, but they have the advantage of being a more or less open rail deck, so the load can be seen, whereas the later ferries all have an enclosed deck. Jon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian G Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Picked up a book on the puffers many years ago in Campletown, strange place amazing night out, Birthday present for my dad Ian G 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 A bit more progress to report, the gaps between frames were roughly filled with offcuts of plasticard, and then a skin of car body filler has started to be applied. Slow going because my car body filler is setting too quickly. JON 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted December 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2015 Hi Jon, Yet another thing I'm interested in! I have 2 vacuum moulded models of the puffer that I have given up on. The mouldings that make the hull just do not produce the correct shape of hull. I'll be interested to see how this turns out. The little harbour diorama thet the puffers were intended for sits forlournly, unloved and unfinished, at the very back of my shed. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian G Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 balsa may have been better to fill the gaps and sand Ian G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly9 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 How did this progress? How did this progress? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 Sanding to shape was very very very dusty, and I lost interest! Jon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Sanding to shape was very very very dusty, and I lost interest! Jon Too late now but cutting out plates from shim brass and solder them in situ over the formers just like the original. Remember seeing one at Crinin awaiting restoration about twenty years ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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