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23 minutes ago, brossard said:Cheers, I must have built a couple dozen kits both in plastic and brass. I build a lot of kits for friends too. I use non acid flux (I used to use Carrs Green but it goes up my nose) and have a lot of solder. I have a Weller 50W soldering station with tip temp feedback - a really excellent bit of kit. Also a Weller 35W stand alone. I find the trick to effective soldering is a clean shiny bit. I've been using brass wool which is a really good tip cleaner.
I did build a Connoisseur NBR Brake Van that was a pleasure - also for a friend.
I have a Slaters 1F kit that someone started so got it for a good price.
Good luck with the build, I shall be watching.
John
It's always fun to build for friends, the good thing is we are a club, but we don't go through the formality of forming and building a club we're just a group of mates all between 23-28 so a good bunch. Thanks always nice to hear people are watching, this blog is being written after 75% of the work is completed. Right now the model is running, with all the pickup's etc I'm just playing catch up, with the blog and the You Tube video's which I am doing tied with this RM Web Blog.
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16 minutes ago, brossard said:
This is a really impressive build. I haven't done a 7mm loco yet, focusing instead on wagons and getting the layout done.
If the picture at the top of the blog shows your workbench you appear to have all the right kit.
The sub assemblies look really good.
Wondering how you got with soldering large parts like frames. When I built a D&S van some while ago, I had a lot of trouble getting my 50W iron to work. My problem might have been using 188C solder instead of 145C.
John
Thanks John,
I must admit I started with building a few wagons, firstly for friends as I wanted to get into 7mm, and at the time wasn't able to get anything in 7mm then I built the GE PO Wagon for myself. The soldering was easy, using Carr's 145 & Carr's Green Flux. If your not sure what your solder is buy some 145 from Phoenix Paints as they do the solder and the flux, I think it cost me £20 for the lot and I've not run out of flux nor solder yet although I will need to get some more solder very soon. But the 145 & Green Flux really made the job easy to do. If your not feeling confident I'd recommend starting with the Connoisseur Starter kit, reasonably cheap and the instructions are so simple. To be fair this is my first kit and it's been hard in some places and I think I have gotten a few things wrong ( In terms of the cab back wall) but it's been fine to build.
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Very well done!!
Always nice to see some work like that which makes a very good model look, out standing!
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19 hours ago, brossard said:
That is a good looking wagon. At first glance I thought lettering was missing from the door but then I checked the lorry.
PO wagons usually had independent brakes that could be operated from either side but only one side at a time. There shouldn't be a rod between the two brake sets. Some had drop doors.
I wouldn't worry too much about touching the paint up. I expect you will weather it. If your era is BR, these would look very distressed at that time.
John
Thanks John,
I have removed the bar, I should have realized that! But not too worry thank you that has been corrected now
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1 hour ago, Adrian Stevenson said:
Looking good. Will you be weathering it once your degree is out of the way?
Cheers, Ade.
I might well do, I'm certainly considering putting a realistic coal load into it. I've not seen any photographs of the wagon, but I'm of the opinion that the owner would have tried to keep it clean. As based on my own knowledge it would have made sense to keep it clean as it acted as poster for the owner and the town. As POW Sides do 2 other GER wagons I may keep them clean too. I'm honestly not sure yet.
But I'll enjoy it all the same
Thanks
Tom
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14 hours ago, railroadbill said:
Nice cockpit, with the wood grain effect, and the seat and seatbelts (the buckles look realistic).
Thank you, the paint I used is, called Wood Grain. I used 2 coats and effectively painted in the grain effect. The buckles come with the kit ( pre-painted) and are based on the originals. But thanks for the comments
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21 hours ago, Barry Ten said:
It's an excellent job.
I was reading in an R/C mag about this range of 1/24th WW1 fliers which look like accurate static models but are flyable:
https://microaces.myshopify.com/
This afternoon I've been working on my fifth 1/48th Mustang.
Wow, they look great...Not sure If I'd go into detail to make or build one of those but I am thinking of getting a larger version of the Fokker dr.1 and doing it the same way. I'll bet the Mustang looks great!
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3 hours ago, Barry Ten said:
The Fokker triplane in 1/72nd scale defeated me as a kid - just didn't have the patience and dexterity to get all the wing struts aligned without the whole thing collapsing into a gluey mess!
Don't you have a WW1 flier to be cracking on with, Wenlock?
I'll admit getting the top wing and struts to the wheels connected, it was an absolute nightmare! That whole section holding the wheels to the fuselage was so hard, almost needed 4 hands to do it. But overall it's turned out really well.
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1 hour ago, wenlock said:
Looking good! Are the seatbelts part of the kit, or are they your own additions? Either way they look excellent, I’m looking forward to seeing the finished aircraft.
Hi,
The Straps come with the kit as a pre-painted/printed etching, I must admit I found it an amazing thing to see, a lot of little etching details have been added to the model. If you look at the same photo showing the straps in the cockpit you can see there's two more etched parts, at the time I had not fitted which were also pre-painted/printed
Yes I look forward to getting it into the Red, my only worry is the paint may not get to every area. But we shall see how it goes! Next thing is to under coat the whole aircraft so some dam good masking will be needed.
Thank you
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9 minutes ago, petethemole said:
I used to model AFVs and had many of the reference works on camouflage and markings available in the 70s and 80s, all now sold with my unmade kit stock. I don't remember any reference to white dots on the ambush scheme. However, a close look at your first photo shows that there are tonal differences between the dots on 105. There are dots that match the dark yellow areas, and others that are noticeably lighter in tone, and could be interpreted as white.
Yeah, since finishing the build/paint job, I went with a prototypical ambush camouflage. But never-mind.
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8 minutes ago, Fen End Pit said:
Nice grubby J15 you've got there.
David
Thank you, I have 3 which are all very grubby, you can expect more grubby
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2 hours ago, Andy Reichert said:
In my experience, rush hour was standing room only west of Wood St. Station.
Andy
Yes quite right, I have read that in various books, it would be impractical to model figures sitting and standing, Once the roofs are on you won't be able to see as well inside the coaches so it will not matter so much. But I think they are starting to look the part.
Thanks
Tom
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21 minutes ago, Bucoops said:
I see the odd post on Facebook about the Quints - likely from you? I don't think I follow Isinglass Models but probably should! Although that would probably tempt me to buy something...!
Andy said the earlier drawings don't have much underframe detail, that was included in more recent drawings after someone requested it and older ones weren't updated. The Westinghouse cylinders will be smaller than Vacuum ones but I'd still like to know what they look like (there were several designs) and where to put them.
Probably quite right about that, I mostly post about them on the LNER Modellers page, but only when there's an update. Yes, it would be nice to know where they go, it'll be very nice to see if the drawings are updated slightly to incorporate the extras. I was sent these images quite recently, as Andy's working on the Dia 81 (Vehicle No.1) & 85 (Brake Vehicle No.5)
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2 hours ago, Bucoops said:
Watching with interest
Do you know if Isinglass have managed to track down any details on the brake cylinder etc. arrangement? I bought the drawings a little while back and I queried the lack of info and they said they were looking into it for their printed models.
Well thank you, I've looked at the drawings myself, as I wait for the kit to arrive, it refers to the brake actuating cylinders on coaches 1,3 & 5 and well they are not visible, so I won't be looking to model it. But the 4 Large Battery boxes are featured and I have got those in White metal ready to go on the model. But I've not inquired about it myself, do you follow him on Facebook?
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On 01/07/2019 at 19:51, John Tomlinson said:
That's turned out well - you should be pleased. Very much 1945, desperately waiting for the end!
Interesting collection of other vehicles. I know little about British tanks, but did build an AFV club Centurion MkV once as I was brought up near Leyland where many of them were made. I wondered if that's what is on the right at the back in the last pic. It's a great kit when you've finished, but the fineness of the detail I found quite a struggle.
John.
Thank you, I thought it turned out well, my collection consists of a Male mkV, Female MkIV, Whippet Medium A, Churchill MkVII, Sherman M4A3E8 Fury, King Tiger (Tiger II), Centurion & Chieftain Mk9. I've recently given the Centurion & Churchill VII away and brought in a SAS Jeep & LRDG Truck.
But now turned my attention to an LNER Quint set which I'm now waiting for them to tip up
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That is looking rather nice and imposing (as the real things were). Look forward to seing it fully painted.
Really would not want to see one of these, in an Ambush, with only Comets or Cromwell's in support. I'll be getting it into primer & Sand base coat in the next few days.
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FWIW, I seem to remember one source quoting that the "dots" in such a camouflage scheme could also be pale blue.
As you will know, this scheme only came in at the end of the war, for defensive positions, with tanks sometimes concealed behind trees and bushes. So in some circumstances the pale blue probably looked like sky, as seen when looking through foliage.
Further to the earlier post, my wife and I visited the Museum last July whilst on holiday for our 30th, like you I came home thinking about going to one of the operating days!
John.
Very interesting, I didn't know about the blue! But it would make sense, I'm stuck between a rock & a hard place, with the dots, either following the normal German Ambush camouflage or follow the painting instructions in which it shows the white.
Sadly there is a lot of that knowledge about this that is lost to time, it could entirely depend on what the crews had pain wise as of December 1944. As it was during the Battle of the bulge, Winter 1944, so I'm probably going with the white dots but with the same number scheme as per what the King Tigers Carried in Normandy - Which the Bovington 104 carries.
Thank you for your comment
Tom
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The paint scheme on 105 was factory applied and variations seem to have depended on the factory the unit was built at. The dots on the KT are actually Dunklegelb too - not white.
Numbering was still done by the units, SS 501 seems to have had a bit of variation in this area.
Regards,
Craig w
Interesting...so other information I've read, could also be incorrect? I'm wanting to get this as accurate as possible so this being very helpful
So the Dots are not in white? - Quite the contrast to what is shown in the image from the painting instructions? - It's quite hard to tell using black & white images, but to me, it looks white.
From what I've read the number 105 would be similar to those used in Normandy so looking at Bovington's KT they have the white outline with Green on the inside, and as this Tank didn't have any Wehmact Crosses, I think I'll with white and Green.
As for the comment about the personalized tanks, I did get that information from a video which the Tank Museum produced with David Willy which talked about how tanks were painted. But if 105 was painted in the factory I assume that was because the paint was getting short and crews didn't have the time to paint them in the field?
Thank you for the information you've been very helpful, feel free to follow the project I could do with more tips as I go forwards
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The Tiger Collection Display at Bovingdon was still operating in July 2018, I don't know if it still is?
I thought it was a remarkable collection to find in one room, possibly a unique event.
Good luck with the kit. I have two unbuilt Meng F102's and they appear to be of excellent quality, yet another raising of the bar by a recent entrant to the plastic kit market.
John.
I think it was yes, sadly the German Elefant Tank has gone back to America, it was a shame that the Tank Museum couldn't get Sturm Tiger from the Panzer Museum.
But it certainly was a unique event to go, I went on my birthday, really enjoyed going. Need to think about going to Tiger Day or Tankfest.
Thank you for the confidence at this stage of the kit, I've built the hull and I'm going to use a bit of artistic license when adding the German 501 Panzer Battalion flashes on the front and back of the Tank.
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I think you will find that the tracks which Meng supply are some of the best too.
Enjoy the build.
Nice to hear, I like that a Jig for the Nickle and tracks are provided with the kit, will certainly make things smoother, from the reviews I've seen the tracks are pretty easy to put together.
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Very Nice: I always liked seeing these painted up in WDLR Livery - Black with Red Stripes or just black in the end. Very nice work
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Hi there hope you are well. Just a quick question is the track you spaced the sleepers just a normal peice of peco flexible track as the difference has knocked me back all the best trigger
Hi, thank you.
The track is just normal Peco flexi track. The sleepers are not the right width compared to the handbuilt, Peco bullhead or the fine-scale - track building systems (TBS) new bullhead flexi track. But if I am honest, for modelers like myself who cannot afford the new Peco rail but is waiting for the new fine-scale TBS track to arrive, I have found it a good compromise. I do think with the rail spaced out it makes the sleepers look longer, and therefore better.
Thank you for your comment.
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Part 2 is now up
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Sounds fun, got any pictures/ plans of the previous modules?
I can share some photo's of the previous modules in the next blog if that helps
. I will ask at the next club meeting for a drawing of module No.3, and I'll give you some photo's of Module 1 & 2. I hope you enjoy the next installment of this layout build. I will also put up where the layout will be attending in terms of model shows etc.Thank you for your comment
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Hi John,
Yes it's only my list to do, I solder the dome in place on the 3rd photo, and I have removed it as it looked a mess!! Now it looks so much better! I was thinking the joints on the tanks and around the sanders needed clean up so not to worry it's a job to do.
But thanks for the help, it's all taken on board for the "To Do List"
Cheers
Tom