So here's the model with it's final coat of Matt black acrylic paint brushed on, it's now got a chimney. These trams sometimes hauled a tram car behind them, very similar to the horse drawn trams but also similar in appearance to the later electrified trams that preceded these steam trams.
I'll leave you with the rest of the photos of this build.
This is only loosly based on any original because to tell you the truth I didn't think it would ever get to fruition, if I'd known I'd h
So we'd got as far as the chassis build, I worked out what sort of aperture to leave in the base so the worm on the shaft of the can motor would poke through to engage with the drive gear.The original metal retainer was too long for this body so couldn't be used, but I used it as a pattern to determine the angle of entry for the shaft and made up a motor bed/retainer assembly from 2mm plastic card and added 0.25 shims untill the worm engaged with the gear satisfactorily. This was quite a trial a
Some time ago I bought a brake van body because i could see a certain resemblance to 'Toby the Tram' hence the title of this blog. I did some research on steam trams, gathering together a collection of images and articles on the subject. here's a photo of what I broadly wanted to achieve
I don't have a photo of the original body but here's one soon after I started mucking around with it some time last year
I fitted some half panels to the doors, filled in the place where the duckets would
Hi Folks,
It's been a while now since I last posted anything in this blog, largely due to having resumed work on the house renovation, realising that if I didn't do it no other bu@@er would. Apart from that I recently took my half yearly trip back to the UK.
I had recently bought a French Senior Citizens rail pass which gives me 50% off of SNCF fares so booked 4 months in advance for Eurostar. I was very impressed with the TGV, very comfortable, smooth and quiet too. Eurostar looked a bit j
In my recent blog about experimenting with different materials to produce roofs for coaches or covered vans you might recall I cut some blanks from first a Deodorant can and then a beer can. If you haven't read that blog I recommend you do so first.
If you remember I talked about producing a coach roof from several blanks, but first I had to dispose of the beer some way so I would have some empty cans.
Well I can now report that (hic) I have some, whoops!
I cut up the cans and laminated t
I might have mentioned in an earlier blog that I was also putting some plastic wagon kits together. While the Mink G van is awaiting a slot in the paintshops I've posted a couple of photos of the Ratio bogie B passenger van I'm doing, alongside the Mink G, which has now had the body painted and the decals fixed. When it's been varnished and the underframe paintwork finished I'll post it up.
I find the Ratio plastic kits go together reasonably well and (this 'B' vans bogies aside), are quite
Now I'm back from the UK and have some time to spare here is the update on the van. I'm limiting this to pictures only.
wheel parts
chassis parts and technical plans
1 assembled chassis 2 wheel silicon mould 3 tyre parts etc with one wheel completed van body painted
van body from different angles, windows are blanked out for painting but are clear plastic underneath
cheers
I've had considerable problems with posting photos but when I posted them to the test area they came up ok [ called Murphy's law] or something like that.
Right in part 5 you'll see 12345 listed where the photo's should be here they are in that order:-
1
2
3
4
5
Shhh it seems to have worked.
Conclusions drawn? I talk to 'kin much!!
TTFN
While I overwintered in Wales I took with me some modelling stuff, well quite a large cardboard boxful to be more precise, along with the silhouette cutter, laptop, etc. While I was there I went to the O gauge society expo in Reading and was tempted into buying a Parkside LMS brake van kit, mainly to get a feel of working in this gauge in preparation for the forthcoming CC1 mentioned in an earlier entry's comments. I was impressed by the contents of the box, although the price is a bit on the he
I've chosen the title of this blog for two reasons.
First is what the title suggests, there isn't much to add to the D16/2 category at present as I've just been going back over what went before and putting right a few minor wrongs. Which were mainly the ends being flat instead of bevelled. This has been corrected and the ends/sides re-united so we're back to square one. I've used the previous photo to illustrate this rather than take a photo of the same thing but modified.
When I've
Having received the Name plates and numbers for both the Double Fairlie and Lady Margaret I've spent some time today fixing them.
Previously I've used Hornby Satin Cote but it took a while to set, which resulted in the smokebox plate on the Gaiety pannier tank going askew slightly,[ something I have to put right sometime].
This time I thought I'd give Acrylic varnish a go, my thinking is that it would harden more rapidly and indeed it did. The first 2 nameplates I cut from the fret with a scal
With the base and body complete all that remained was to paint it, I had used a maroon coloured card for the body but I now think that is the wrong colour it should be more of a red oxide colour I think. here's how it looked when I'd finished it
This was the original photo and below is my Diorama to replicate it
That's about it really, apart I suppose from this little fellah
if you look at the original you'll see him down on the rails between the engine and t
The two coats of Acrylic paint made a difference to the roof, making it harder and filling the course grain of the Balsa. Next came the base plate, I made this from 2mm thick plastic card with 2x2mm strips of angle along the sides to which I glued some T shaped strip to replicate the base in the photo.
Next came the bogie frames, these I cut from Slaters plastic card but the top section I cut from some French card which is softer and more 'bendy' than the British card, this enabled
I stuck the two halves together then made some floor sections of the right shape fixing them inside to brace the sides. I cut glazing strips from a perspex shirt collar stiffening strip which comes with most new shirts, I stuck these in with superglue.
The cab rear panels are not correct as it is possible to see right through the prototype but they added rigidity and don't forget that this was just for a photoshoot so detail wasn't too important. Next I traced around the body and made
Well it's been a while again now since I posted anything, due in part to awaiting a coach kit to arrive from Comet Models and a very smart kit it is indeed, I hope I can do it justice when I come to assemble it as it will be my first brass kit build.
Two other reasons for my absence, one I've started work on the house renovation again after some considerable time so I now have less time and even less energy for the models.
The other reason is because of a spate of electrical breakdowns, in a f
Hi everyone,
I've been registered on RMWeb for quite a while but haven't done anything about adding any content, other than the odd comment here and there.
I've only been modeling railway stuff for just over a year and my knowledge of railways doesn't add up to much but I'm learning all the time and find the subject very interesting.
Of course I went through the usual phase of 'train spotting' when I was a kid and lived right near Hither Green sidings outh East London where you could hear the
Whenever I throw any packaging into the re-cycling box I think ' now I wonder what I could make out of that', and so it was with the item in the photo below.
I thought I'd have a go at cutting one of these cylinders into a strip that could be used as a roof on a coach or wagon.
Now before you all jump on me and say ' you aren't supposed to puncture aerosol cans, yes I know what it says on the tin but if you are wary and you know what these cans contain you need have no fears. Some aerosols c
I started adding some detail, first the doors, here's where I realized my second mistake , I'd forgotten about the doors and made the body 1mm too wide. This was because I didn't want too much overhang at the sides of the roof and so the faces of the doors are outside the edge of the roof. I may have to fit another plastic roof over the top of the aluminium one with a larger overhang at the eaves.
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I cut the 'T' bar strapping to size, adding an angled cut-off on the ends and fixed these ont
With the roof sort of sorted I turned my attention to the building of the body. After experimenting unsuccessfully with scribing planks in to plastic card I settled for using tongued and grooved boarding from the wills 'scenic series', seen here.
The next photo shows the sides cut from a Wills T&G sheet and in it you can see the roof section (third from left) with the plastic card attached
I stuck the sides to a floor panel and left it overnight to cure before going any further. Unf
Hi,
I stumbled upon a very interesting thread here on RMweb a couple of weeks ago. The name of it was 'A guide to using the Silhouette Cameo cutter, by JCL. For those who don't know of these machines they're similar to an inkjet printer but instead of a print head they have a tiny blade which cuts designs out of a sheet of thin material which has been fed into it.
Primarily they're designed for cutting shapes out of thin card, vinyl, or paper for things like scrap booking etc, but some of the
As I said before I had shelved this project with no great desire to carry it on, however after a couple of months I was able to look at it in a different light.
The bogies I'd tried to use were completely wrong, the scale was all wrong too. In height it was ok but in length it was way too long, something like 8 scale feet too long. This was largely due to my trying to use the RTR bogies, something had to be done. With nothing to lose I proceeded to hack the thing to bits.
I had to lose somethi
I'm sorry this blog hasn't been updated for so long, but work on the house has taken priority, so the only modelling done recently have been a couple of Ratio Vans. 1 is an LMS ventilated van the other an SR 28ton bogie 'B' luggage van and a Parkside Dundas 'vanwide' kit.
The two small vans were a doddle and a pleasure to build, the SR 'B' van was a bit of a pig with lots of fiddly bits making up the bogies and I'm not happy that I've got them right even now.
Another thing I wasn't happy about
Well at last it's finished, well as near as. It has now been painted in GWR freight grey and weathered to what I think it might have looked like. On checking online I had a lot of guidance on the state of some wagons when in service, on refering to some of Paul Bartletts work some wagons were virtually falling apart, I didn't want to overdo the weathering to that extent though.
See what you think,
I've ordered a sillhouette portrait vinyl cutter from Amazon which is due
I bought a rather dilapidated castle arts/ Gaiety GWR 57xx pannier tank model for about £4. It was in quite a sad state, the drive gear on the axle had come loose so although I got the motor to turn it couldn't transmit any power to the wheels.
The body for this model was sold at one time on its own so that it could be matched up with a RTR [Triang/Hornby chassis. After a lot of faffing around I eventually acquired a suitable chassis for it and I modified it to accept the same method for fixing
phew! I've just finished digging my way out from 10 pages down the lists. well although a lot has been happening on the house renovation front, not a lot has happened as far as model making is concerned, but here is a brief update just to dust off the shelves so to speak.
In my last post you will maybe recall (or maybe not) I had designed and cut the parts for a covered wagon using plastic card cut in a Silhouette Portrait cutter which I had assembled and more or less awaited painting. I think
