Modbury - 2mm Finescale (Brunel's Baulk Road)

Looking great Ian! Good to hear your going for the red rodding, I'll be interested to see your interpretation of "Torbay Bright" :-)

 

For what it's worth I think I'd be inclined to leave off the top rollers. It would be a real shame to risk damaging what you've achieved so far.

 

Dave

Looking great Ian! Good to hear your going for the red rodding, I'll be interested to see your interpretation of "Torbay Bright" :-) For what it's worth I think I'd be inclined to leave off the top rollers. It would be a real shame to risk damaging what you've achieved so far. Dave

Dave,

Glad you like it!!  I must admit that I really have no idea what shade of red "Torbay Bright" was, I'm probably going for a weathered Vermillion - I'll be adding a dirty thinners type of wash to each of the rollers and hinge points on each crank anyway to represent the greasing thereof.

 

Having looked at the rodding in the cold light of day, I've convinced myself that trying to add the top rollers will be a step too far in 2mm - mainly because of the risk of damage to the existing rods.  I did find that I had to work from one end when soldering them to the stands as if I went back to one in the middle of already secured ones that the thin wire buckled as it expanded despite a very light touch of the iron.

 

Ian

Very fine work Ian. I think you are right about trying to add the top rollers. Does the expansion problems mean it would be wise to add all the  rodding wires to each stool in turn working away from the box.

When I first joined the 2mm SA thirty years ago the idea of adding all the rodding was never mooted it shows how far some have come.

Don

Very fine work Ian. I think you are right about trying to add the top rollers. Does the expansion problems mean it would be wise to add all the  rodding wires to each stool in turn working away from the box.

When I first joined the 2mm SA thirty years ago the idea of adding all the rodding was never mooted it shows how far some have come.

Don

Don,

 

In this short experiment, I added the run to the switch first (as it was further away from me), then went back and added the FPL run.  Although I managed to get away without the first run becoming looking like a piece of chewed string, I think in future that I will try to do all of the rods on each stool in one go (the most I will have though is 4 rods).  I'm also only doing the rodding in lengths of a few inches - this experiment is about a foot long all told.  (I'm hoping to arrange the butt joints at the stools (but staggering them so that no more than one joint will be at any one stool)).

 

I might try aluminium hair grips as heat sinks either side of the stool being soldered to see if that helps if I have to go back and add a bit more solder to any joints.

 

Ian

Thanks Ian. I have a pair of forceps with a curved end which make a useful heat shunt

Don

Dave,

Glad you like it!!  I must admit that I really have no idea what shade of red "Torbay Bright" was, I'm probably going for a weathered Vermillion - I'll be adding a dirty thinners type of wash to each of the rollers and hinge points on each crank anyway to represent the greasing thereof.

 

 

Ian

 

Funnily enough "weathered vermillion" was exactly the same colour I had in mind for my rodding:-) It was obviously a different colour from "signal red" or "red oxide" and the "bright" in the colours name makes me think it was probably quite an intense colour. I guess there's no one left alive to tell us that we are wrong!

Very impressive Ian, it all adds up to a very distinctive look. You don't really need to operate any stock on this, there is enough interest in the track and point rodding alone!

Very impressive Ian, it all adds up to a very distinctive look. You don't really need to operate any stock on this, there is enough interest in the track and point rodding alone!

Thank you Mikkel.  One of the main reasons for my wanting to model Baulk Road was for the "ooh, this is different" viewpoint.  Because you don't see it modelled very often (extremely rare in 2mm!!) I think it will generate some interest, and as you say hopefully enough interest not to have to maintain an unrealistic traffic pattern (particularly important when you've only got 2 engines, 4 coaches and about a dozen wagons).  :-)