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Hang On - These Will Test Your Patience

richbrummitt

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I mentioned working on Masterclass brake vans in a much earlier post. The kits go together very well but then there are the handrails. I've been doing some other things to give me a break from bending and cutting wire before *ping* and it's out of the tweezers goodness knows where! I think you have become a seasoned model maker when you can make a valiant attempt to recover the small parts based on the sound of what they land on or against? I must have half a set of handrails in the carpet somewhere because it's often easier to start again. After about three evenings work the handrails are fitted to the first pair of vans. (It would have been much longer too if it were not for David Eveleigh's little wire bending etch and a couple of other 'jigs' that I knocked up along the way.) They are 20' variants and one has later style foot boards (from a refurbishment) The roofs are placed on for now because I still need to fit the brake standard and stove pipe. There are also many other details to add, but these aren't included on the etch so I can file the spares and scraps away and clear something else off the bench too. I have some later styles and also a 6 wheeler to do, at a later date. For now this pair allow me to finish of a couple of goods trains in a proper manner.

 

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coachmann

This is where the Dyson comes in....very handy for finding all the bits we drop on the carpet that can then be retreaved from the plastic container.

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Richard,

 

Get yourself a pair of Maun parallel action pliers (snipe nose with smooth jaws). They are much better at holding things like wire and small pieces of flat metal because there is more area in contact with the work piece. They cost a bit more than normal pliers but they'll soon become one of your most used tools.

 

HTH.

 

David

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Hi Rich smile.gif

 

These are really interesting to me as I have one of these kits to build at some point. To be honest I have kinda been putting off building it as it looked a little complicated. How would you rate this kit out of 10 on ease of building? How do they compare to something like a chassis etch to build?

 

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richbrummitt

I have another like this with a 6 wheel u/f. I think the remainder have the later (relatively speaking) grab handles that form a continuous circuit and these will probably be easier to do. The side stanchions are well formed on the frets that I have assembled and went in with a small amount of force. I could foresee that maybe these could be bent during assembly and opening up slots in etches is not so easy. I hate building chassis because I struggle to align the outer overlays once they do not locate on the bearings and they always seem to take me ages unless they are simple like the swan neck linkage with one side brake blocks so maybe I am not the best person to ask. They are not beyond your reach though. I think I would rate it maybe a seven. There is a lot to do, but it's quite achievable. The thin foot boards on the right hand van have been re-attached more times than I can count so I'd recommend you fit the L shaped ones.

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Ah yes, footboards. Not very considerate of the railways to have these, always giving trouble for us modellers biggrin.gif . These look superb though, and in 2FS too. The thin ones on the r/h van do look particularly good, although I can appreciate they must have been tricky.

 

Looking forward to a shot of the full goods trains that these will allow you to make smile.gif.

 

 

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Ah yes, footboards. Not very considerate of the railways to have these, always giving trouble for us modellers biggrin.gif .

 

Dean was especially inconsiderate in this respect with the mounting of his bogies.

 

 

These look superb though, and in 2FS too. The thin ones on the r/h van do look particularly good, although I can appreciate they must have been tricky.

 

Thank you. I keep having to re-fix them sometimes after handling. They stick out further than the fixing area is tall. What I should have done (and may still do) is have the hanger bend under the footboard and flatten it well in some pliers.

 

Looking forward to a shot of the full goods trains that these will allow you to make smile.gif.

 

That would require a locomotive. Watch this space.

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