Shopping and Van
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Well I managed to save some money at the train show, so a new soldering iron was purchased. Temperature controlled and a ceramic heating element, hopefully this will help me to improve my skills with the hot wand. The wooden pegs as suggested in previous comments is a great tip, apart from the fact all the pegs in our peg bag are plastic! Looks like I'm off to the shops, again.
Managed to do some more on the luggage van today. Both solebars are fitted now, even after I put the frame on upside down on the first attempt. I've added the other set of strapping and the sliding doors and a few more of the vertical ribs, all with the new iron. I did misplace one of the buffers and spent a good 10 minutes looking for it, this turned out to be a good thing as I found some coupling springs and drill bits which had escaped the workbench.
Back onto the topic of Laser cutting, I picked a couple of kits at the show. One was for a VicRail permanent way good shed. This will fit in quite well as the gangers trolley shed situated next the signal box at Sturminster. Only 6 parts, it went together really easy.
The second was for a VicRail AE 1st class passenger car on 6 wheel bogies. It looks pretty straight forward; I just forgot to get the paint for it at the time. The wood panel detail is pretty good. Both of these kits are produced by Spirit Design based here down under. They do custom work, so I will be contacting them about some little jobs i'd like done.
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