SteelAndSoot

one splash of paint later

Begun throwing together another little bash Not much planning is going into this so I have no idea where this will go Chassis is a Mantua 0-4-0st for those wondering

Hello all, I do believe this will be the first time I have posted since the great fire of RMweb. have been kept very busy modelling small locos of whimsy, many I will likely share later. However, one such creation was finished just this morning. The unceremonious bodge of a Bachmann junior and Tyco plymouth into a rather ungainly, well-running, loco. I have had the chassis and body sitting in a drawer for many years now and figured that now would be the time to attempt to make something of it. It remains a rather unattractive and implausible on account of its wheel size, however, I believe it will look right at home amongst my fleet of 60s and 70s industrials

going to be honest, the whole point of this thread was to document my model making progression for me to look back on, but after the issues with RMweb of recent and not having the time or energy to replace all of the images here, I'm probably just going to call it a day for RMweb. I'll still be hanging around looking at other people's work, but this is where this thread will most likely end. if you would like to see my projects continue I direct you to my hobby twitter account here you can see my current project, but by scrolling back through my media tab you can see the 16MM Sir Handel I have been building while RMweb has been down, and progress on my layout and funicular I do believe that I have shown a great increase in my modelling capabilities since I started this thread, and I hope to continue with such an upward increase in quality. It's been fun, and I'm a bit bumbed that its ended here, but unless some miracle happens that restores the files to posts, then I don't believe I will be coming back to here. I guess that about wraps it up, Take care are farewell, I hope I may see you all again across the internet

slapped together a quick mockup for the funicular winding house/top station. was going to build it from scratch, but i may just print it instead

A bit of a stretch, but I used the cut in half buffers from a pug to form the tool boxes on my NZ64 (1:64) Jigger Wickham trolley chassis also used

very nice. do you mind if I use this same method of making the chassis for my own Metropolitan build?

Going to call them done. there are a couple small internal things I need to add, mainly dummy motors, but apart from that there is nothing else to do other than source figures. they run well, but don't handle points particularly nicely And Bruce has had a lick of paint. but it definitely points to just how small Bruce really is

getting there

Just said to it and am going all in with NZ64 for a while. will finish my current projects still but a lot of future projects may be in this scale Began printing some static Jiggers from thingiverse and had an idea Bachmann Wickham trolley chassis is near perfect. wheels are about 0.4mm too small and the wheels are about that same distance too far apart, plus the wheels aren't spoked the same. but its too close to not give it a go, plus, I'm not greatly fussed by accuracy, as long as it looks the part and performs well thats all I want will print off some better ones tomorrow that have been altered to fit the Wickham chassis, and they will be coupled back to back will be my first working and motorised NZ64 model, and you bet I am taking it to visit the big kiwi layouts. just picturing this charging past a pair of double heading Ja locos on a huge layout is already making me excited. going to a club, everyone has proper locos, and I whip out the jigger

one two skip a few, ninety nine Funicular\

Not sure if I've talked about this before, but I love the Johnston A class, Bruce. heavily modified in service and now sits without tanks and a replacement cab from a peckett. finally got off my arse to make a model of the wee lad starting with two 1/64 models, one of pannier wing tank condition and one in current condition got the tank variant printed today and have primed it to be able to see the the areas that need sanding. printed on our Uni's printers next to a vehicle for size comparison

Just mixed both paints together and got this. then I quickly added some red topped steps because it just felt like something to do with safety by highlighting them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ this is where I am up to now. just need to make the window frames, add some interiors other than just benches, probably add some names and or numbers, and make a small hook underneath for connecting them

Had already decided I wanted a toned down green for the two long before even deciding on their inspirational bases. but didn't really know what to do from there began cracking on with the rest of the painting while i thought of what I wanted to do decided I wanted the liver to look nice, but not stand out too much on the diorama. as I wanted the landscape to hold much of the colour, so I made two quick ideas based on some greens I had

Then I finished adding bits to the body and remembered the railway series inspiration. so stuck a face on it and had the name Cirrus given to me as a suggestion. this is due to me wanting to have one named after something in the sky and the other something on the ground. the up and down nature of the Funicular being the reason. one is also always overly happy, and the other is often in a depressive slump, so the up and down of emotions works there too Then I also remembered I hadn't finished the other one, and cracked on with it Had the name Cedar suggested to me by a mate, as it also starts with C and is the name of a tree, something embedded into the ground quickly finished Cedar after having streamlined my technique after making Cirrus