1951 Pullman Scratchbuild in 1/32

[richard i]

It will be fully moving robotic passengers, perhaps talking as well.

richard 

[KeithHC]

Nah it just needs a loco to pull it……….. Anybody got plans for Clan Line……….

 

Keith

[natterjack]

Museum?

[natterjack]

Excellent!

Edited July 4, 2021 by natterjack
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[hendie]

Thread revival!

No mouth to mouth required, just a swift kick and we’re back in business. 

 

Just as I was finishing off this marathon build back in, what was it… October of last year? I thought to myself, that it was such a shame I did not keep any souvenirs from the 1:1 build.  I know my name, along with others on the team is stamped on one of the shear plates in the vestibule end, but that’s not quite the same.

Actually, I did keep some mahogany blocks from the vestibule gangway, but my wife left those back in the UK when we emigrated. Now that the build was complete it would have been so cool to have had some of the 1:1 Pegasus to display beside this model. But that was over 20 years ago now and I am a continent away and no longer in contact with any of that team. Oh well, such is life.

 

Well, in what can only be described as a remarkable series of circumstance and coincidence, the end of my build was not the end of the story. Pull up a chair, throw another log on the fire, grab your Horlicks, and get settled in.

 

Unbeknownst to me, sometime around the middle of 2020, Pegasus incurred some water damage – any guesses where I’m going with this?

I’m not sure just how bad the water damage was, but the new owner apparently decided that was the opportunity to do a complete refurbishment of Pegasus.  So in October of last year just as I was finishing up the 1:32 build, the 1:1 Pegasus was scheduled to go to the doctors for the refurb, and here’s where fate got involved.

A tremendously resourceful fellow named Andrew, who we’ll call Andrew, to protect the innocent, decided to do some research on old Car 310 – and what do you know?  He came across my build thread and read through it.  Now, not only did he read through my build, but after trying various ways to contact me without success, he also took the time to register with the site so he could contact me personally via PM. That was back in January of ’21.

 

His out of the blue PM blew me away. Simple as that.  I can’t explain how excited I was when I read his message. It was fairly straightforward – he informed me that they had just completed the refit on Pegasus and he had saved some items – and would I be interested in having  them?  WHAT???

I couldn’t believe it.  How many planets had to align for all those circumstances to coincide?

Off course I jumped at the chance. Over the last 7 or 8 months we’ve been PM’ing back and forth trying to sort things out, but finally last month everything was in place for the shipment to happen. And happen, it did.

 

This week I was away in Chicago on business, and on my first day away, look what arrived…

 

 

Look - it's full of goodies

 

 

Sorry, not that type of goodies. 

 

This type of goodies

 

 

What’s in it I hear you ask. Well, there’s this for starters: A curtain. A real curtain. From the real Pegasus. Perhaps even the one old Madge wiped her fingers on after scoffing that tea and scones on her birthday

 

 

Then this, a piece of the carpet, which for some obscure reason decided to auto-rotate itself. The photo, not the carpet.

 

 

Followed by this little section of granite from the bartop - remember that bartop that I thought was going to be such a struggle? Yet turned out to be one of my favorite items in the build

 

 

Then we have a couple of brass hooks, and a pair of attendant call buttons. (You can get off your sides now, looks like we've stopped auto-rotating)

 

 

And finally, to wrap up, we have the pièce de resistance, and a part that never in a gazillion years could I have imagined getting my hands on – a section of wall panel with the birds eye maple star inlay

 

 

See - there's that Birds Eye Maple inlay I spent so long trying to figure out how to replicate.

 

 

How can I sum this up?  I’m kinda lost for words. I am indebted to Andrew for going to all the trouble of tracking me down and reaching out to make contact. He didn’t know me from Adam and there was absolutely no reason for him to go to all this trouble to get these items into my hands.  I will forever be indebted to him for his generosity and kindness.

The question you are all asking now is what on earth am I going to do with these now that I have them?  Well, my current plan is to have a custom shadow box made up which will house these mementos and can be displayed alongside the Pegasus model.

 

Something along these lines

 

 

So look out for another post sometime in the future when I manage to get that done.

 

[KeithHC]

Is it just me but does that curtain look more like a pair of boxers….

 

Keith

[Nova Scotian]

That birds eye maple with inlay is stunningly gorgeous.

 

When my partner and I bought our first house we had a bit of cash leftover and had a frivolous day - bought a lovely serving platter out of the stuff. When oiled up it brings out the grain and it's just gorgeous. I want to build a furniture piece for our house in time out of it.

 

Really glad you got some 1:1 pieces. That's a great story.

[Ian Major]

Hendie,

 

Good to hear from you again. 

 

You have received some fabulous artifacts there. In a world where there are many evil things going on it is wonderful to have people like Andrew to help restore one's faith in human nature.

 

I look forward to more developments.

 

Ian.

 

PS I agree with Keith. The curtain does look a bit like underwear after their journey. Still, with a bit of ironing and pleating it will be back to its former glory I am sure.

 

PPS How is the aircraft modelling doing?

 

 

[hendie]

On 15/08/2021 at 11:41, Ian Major said:

PPS How is the aircraft modelling doing?

 

Hi Ian.  I'd say it's going as per normal.

I'm in the middle of converting am old 1950's Revell H19 to a Westland Whirlwind HAR10, circa 1972

So far that has involved cutting off the tail to set it at the correct angle, scratch building: the cabin interior, the cockpit, an entirely new nose, the entire front and rear undercarriage, the tail pylon, replacing the kit transparencies, and vacforming a new windscreen and sliding doors.

I started this as a "fun" build 

 

I still have to scratch a new rotor head and rotor blades, and no doubt a few other bits as well.

Oh, and 3d printed the wheels as the kit parts were not even remotely wheel shaped

 

Edited August 16, 2021 by hendie