Sorry if you've seen some of the CAD pics in the 3d printing section, but for my loyal reader here's the latest 3d CAD nearly finished, couple of tweaks but 99% there, a GC long car for the Grimsby and Immingham,
These were supposedly the longest first generation trams in the UK, supposedly 2 lower saloons on a railway type underframe, here's a great pic of no 14 as preserved at Crich, one of the few never to have run there, 50 years after the G&I finished and it entered preservation, pi
First print of the 4mm Gateshead car has arrived from the Netherlands, this again is in the slightly rough WSF, but it has come out pretty well overall, the roof detail and clerestory roof have come out very well. I'm still waiting on a few in FUD in both 2mm and one in 4mm, hopefully they should look pretty good.
The distinctive gates between the trucks on these cars is already available as an etch from Mark Hughes, and the Tamaden chassis is pretty close in wheelbase etc, but doesn't have
Quick picture and update on the row of Skaledale terraced houses. Still work in progress, gable end still needs work and plenty of weathering still to be done to the roofs, back yards to be detailed next, better start having a look in the Langley catalogue...........
The ex Gateshead cars for the proposed Grimsby and Immingham layout are now in production at Shapeways, final CAD shown below.
And a few of the real thing at Beamish earlier this year
Wonder if I can get a passing loop on the Corporation/Gilbey Rd street section in 20 x 11?
As mentioned in previous enties I've alwas fancied modelling the Grimsby and Immingham tramway and the associated Grimsby and district light railway.
I did make an abortive attempt some time ago http://www.rmweb.co....h__1#entry59456 however to make a resonable sized fleet was going to take a fair bit of scratchbuilding and I do tend to get fed up after one of anything.
With my move into 3d printed models this became much more viable, so here's the first render of an ex-Gateshead car, obvi
My occasional long suffering reader will remember that 'Grime Street' started from your usual big headed bloke quote of 'yeah but I can do better', when Mrs Red Devil commented on some Hornby Skaledale buildings on a day out somewhere or other.
Anyway, due to time constraints I decided to use a number of Terraced houses on the front of the extension, however rtp Hornby just doesn't look quite right to me so a few alterations are in hand.
Window frames, doors and sills will
As I'm still waiting (end of next week at the earliest) the frosted ultra detail print of Leeds 301 http://www.shapeways.../frosted_detail apparently demand on this material is massive at the moment, to the point of Shapeways buying extra machines! I thought I'd smooth out the bumpy WSF model, if the FUD doesn't work at least I'll have this one done. Quite simply done with filler primer and wet and dry down to 2000 grade finally finishing off with Farecla G4 rubbing compound, think I've got it
First trial print of 301 (LCC1) arrved today with a slightly ammended Middleton Bogie. They are in the 'bumpy' White strong flexible medium, overall I'm quite pleased with it. I also have on order the same car in a new medium called frosted ultra detail, this gives quite superb detail but I'll need to see how it turns out in the printing process.
In theory one of the prints will be used for a resin kit master, however with this process it's relatively easy to re scale the models, so should any
Enough of the computer generated stuff, as time permits I've been continuing work on the extension to Grime Street here's a few pics,
Overall shot showing the entrance to the coal yard and the corner building frontage.
Coal yard office and retaining wall in early stages
The beginning of the corner building, frontage is from an altered Walthers Merchants Row II, I'll build the remaining parts and pitched roof etc, the unit has been cut and altered to suit the available
Whilst I'm waiting for the prints of LCC1 (7mm to follow soon) I thought I'd stick a pic up of the latest CAD work for the next tram in line, here's a teaser, more to follow soon
Hopefully you may recognise it from some earlier entries.
LCC no 1 is perhaps my favourite tram, it ended up in Leeds because 2 Felthams were damaged, having looked closely over it at Crich it is a fantastic piece of history, the interior is basically as withdrawn in the late 50s and reeks of the period (not literally but you get my drift.!).
Weeks and months of hacking at bits of plastic had resulted in a part way there model intended as a master.
The one next to it is a borrowed model that despite a few flaws captures no 1 and I ne
I decided to smooth out the Shapeways Middleton Bogie, easily done with the white detail stuff, basic Halfords primer and 800/1200 wet and dry did the job with no loss of the detail.
I'll let you in on a bit of secret, I'd cocked up on checking bthe CAD and there was a fault with the model, both doors being at the same end so this was only ever going to be an experiment, the CAD has since been corrected and another model ordered. So mI thought I'd hastily throw some paint at it to see if i
The nice man from UPS brought me a package from the Netherlands today, You've seen the CAD on the previous entry so here's the printed Middleton Bogie, this is done in the white detail rather than the white strong flexible, twice the price (ish) but worth it I think.
reaction.....................well chuffed!
Whilst I've been hacking away at bits of plasticard and savouring the aroma of EMA's Dichloromethane, I've been highly impressed with some of the various new methods that have been shown on here.
One of the prototypes that I've been researching with a view to building probably as a master to use for resin castings is the iconic (well in Leeds tramway circles!) Middleton Bogie, which for the majority reading who probably don't know what I'm on about looks like this.
http://www.tramway.c..
As I mentioned before, I've been messing about with masters, moulds and resin for a little while, this below is one of the first mouldings I've produced, it's a roof for a Leeds Lance Corporal tram, the master was made from plasticard and strip, the mould is then made using a 2 part room temperature vulcanising rubber, eventually the mould is used to cast the roof section in the resin which is again 2 parts mixed together.
I'll be honest and say that the casting has had a fair bit
I suppose it had to happen, I've eventually sucumbed to the r-t-r market.....................and it's great! I've bought a couple of Bachmann 16t minerals for the beginnings of the railway side to 'Grime Street'. It's going to be very basic, just a pair of sidings on show with possibly a 3 road storage yard to the rear, it'll give me the option of sunting a few wagons about though and it is very much 'just' an adition to the tram side of things.
The couple of sidings have been layed with SMP
As my regular reader knows, the road surface on 'Grime Street' is scribed plaster, so a quick update on the extension, the tram track is now all built and tested and a goodly proportion burried under a layer of Wickes finest.
The terminal stub has been built as a Y point with a stub end as per the layout at the end of the Hunslet line on which the idea and local of the layout is based.
So, very shortly the mind numbing task of scribing the sets starts, well it beats watching Emmerdale/Co
Bit more work done on the Convert kit, gradually beginning to take shape, basic body built up, a few detailing bits need attaching yet (footsteps, doors etc) and still needs a bit more fettling, There are also 20 upper deck seats to build and fit..................they may be ommitted and something else fitted. Anyway as they say a picture is worth............
Quite pleased with it so far, there's a couple of slight modifications that I need to make, (the visor on the upper deck bal
Brief mention of the Chris Cornell etched kit for the Leeds convert(ed) cars in an earlier entry, well the festive boredom set in so thought I'd start fabricating a few of the major sections up ready to build up later, didn't quite happen that way.
I'm going to have to build it slightly differntly to how the instuctions suggest to make painting and glazing a bit easier, I'm not certain yet but may build it with a seperate chassis, comprising the platforms, bulkheads and
No, that line never worked for me in the past either! Anyway it's enticed one or two of you in here so there must be a bit of interest! I've recently received the test etchings for the Leeds 600 railcar kit from Mark Hughes (no not the Footballer, he tarnished his copy book by going managing that team that plays at the council house!) These cover the advert boards, walkways, bow and lifeguards, very nice they look too, better get the last bits done on the 600 master bodyshell now.
Whi
Seems ages since I put anything up here, Mrs Red Devil has had me hard at decorating (why is it you say you'll do one room and end up working through the house?) and what little time I have had seems to have been spent re doing stuff that's gone horribly wrong.
In the last entry I said I wanted to get my Chris Cornell Pilcher kit ready for the Wakefield Exhibition, this I managed to do, painted, transfered and glazed, new Halling drive unit in, then disaster, on the Wednesday before, half of
One thing I have shied away from until recently is lining out the trams, feeling that none is better than a dogs dinner. However talking to Chris Cornell at the Festival of Model Tramways, he showed me his 'convert' lined out using transfers that he has developed. He's kindly supplied me some (think they may be pre production, not sure if they're listed on his CCtramworks site)
They are superb, as yet I've only used them on the rocker panels, but they really finish of some of the earlier ca
Forgot about this......
I recently got this part destination blind from a postwar Leeds tram, seeing as they finished in '59 it's at least 50 years old. I fancy using it as part of the fascia cloth on Grime Street, however Mrs Red Devil wants it to go with her collection of enamelled signs, some of which can be seen with it. Normally what Mrs R.D. wants Mrs R.D. gets.........
Gentlemen (and ladies) place your bets.............................................!
A bit of a fiddle with the pickups, a light oiling and as much self adhesive lead strip as I can stuff in it tower car 2 is running much more like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K5270FyudQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSL2SIJxKIA&feature=channel
I now need to finish the inner tower and shorten the bows, the drawing shows a longer bow, but as the rear one is used it's too far back and it's fouling the overhead in places. Strangely it runs better weight first, so will blacken th
