...24 hours later the Araldite is fully cured.
Compensation Units
With the axle guards securely in place, my attention now turned to the compensation units. A number of types are available, but I find the type with inside bearings supplied by WEP are unobtrusive and go together with a minimum of fuss; simply fold up and a couple of dabs with a hot iron is enough for the solder to work its way into the folds by capillary action. A small engineer's square ensures everything is fixed
I haven't built a Parkside kit for a while so knocking out a couple of Southern 12T covered vans to diagram 1428 was a nice change. In fact, to build something 'out of the box' without having to worry about springing or compensation or replacing the running gear with etched bits and pieces was a bit of a tonic. A gin & tonic. Much as I love to super-detail stuff, sometimes the big kid in me just wants to stick a plastic kit together and slap some paint on. What a bonus to be paid to do just
This is a brand new blog and supersedes the old one which has now been deleted. Due to circumstances preventing me from modelling for much of the last couple of years, it was stillborn and essentially morribund. Much of the material had been transferred over from my workbench on the old site, so was hardly new content anyway, and any outstanding models will be documented on a new workbench thread which I'll link to as soon as I've set it up.
For further reading I have another blog on here wh
One of the wagons in the works is a lovely Highland Railway open fish truck from Lochgorm. It's one of those wagons you could find an excuse to build a layout around due to the volume of character it exudes, no doubt exacerbated by the sultry curves on the ends. Once I finally get my camera lens sorted I'll put a photo up, in the meantime for those of you completely in the dark, Pete Armstrong has built one for his Highland project (one of my favourite external blogs that). Anyway, I digress...
Mad houses, poor houses, work houses, whore houses, slums, hospitals, feculent rivers, churches and cemeteries have all succumbed to the steady onslaught of the coming of the railways to East London from the late 1830s to the present day. As the Eastern Counties Railways and its successor the Great Eastern Railway marched inexorably onwards towards the City, they cut a huge gash through the densely populated streets where pickpockets, housebreakers and prostitutes live in great numbers alongside
This entry should signify the start of me putting some productive contribution back into RMWeb after what has been a very long and fallow time for me in modelling terms of at least 24 months or so. The last four months or so I've been playing catchup with a big backlog of commissions (I'm astonished that some people were prepared to wait until I was ready to start again!) and it's been a very hectic but thoroughly enjoyable time getting back to doing some modelling done again. Almost like coming
For ease of priming, the wheels are temporarily put back onto their axles which are masked off. I don't want primer or paint on the axles at this stage as they've yet to be fitted to the inside bearings.
Any flash on the plastic spokes has been pared away with a Swan Morton blade, files and wet & dry paper - whatever is required. Of course the camera picks up no end of evils which the Mk.1 eyeball overlooks...
If, as in this case, the final colour of the wheels is black, then they ar
OK, I've eased you into Basilica Fields nice and gently, now here comes the hardcore stuff. This is the latest post from the external blog, and is the first on here to be truncated with an external link. As I mentioned in a previous post there are genuine reasons for the linked content, and I hope the teaser is enough to make you want to follow it through.
With this entry the Basilica Fields journal is one hundred posts old. Not only that, but in the last week it passed the 30,000 views mark
