RBAGE Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Sorry about the quality of the photographs. Anyhow, here are 2 examples of Alan's parts (fnarr, fnarr). Just to correct comment from early, these are the cylinder fronts with the covers missing. This condition was common on locos in the north east towards the end of steam, particularly Tyne Dock. However, I have seen photographs of locos with missing covers from other regions. Not many but there is photographic evidence. 9F's and Q6's were the usual suspects. To fit the parts,you must remove the existing cylinder cover to flush with the front of the cylinder. This is quite easy. I used the flexible nail filing sticks from Boots. Exacto do a very nice set of filing sticks and blocks. The cylinder fronts are then fitted with cyno adhesive. The parts with the visible ribs are necessarily low relief because to have full depth would mean opening the cylinder front and possible interference with the cylinder rods. I tried to emphasise the depth by weathering the ribs lighted than the deep areas. The other cylinder front with just a ring of bolts was also very common and I think they look equally as good. Alan might be encouraged to make these available. Cheers Alan. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alanbuttler Posted June 29, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2017 Hi all,It's been a while since I gave an update on new products and where things are in the development queue. I should know by now that trying to get new items developed and on sale during the Spring is not very realistic, so apologies to those that have been awaiting some of the items I listed back in December and January! July and August are my quietest months exhibitions wise, so I'm hoping to catch up on some design work.In the meantime, here is a summary of the products which are now available:BR 1970's - 1990's Crew & Guard Figures During the BRM show at Alexandra Palace I met Paul James who kindly brought his collection of uniforms from his time working for British Rail during the late 1970’s, 1980’s and early 1990’s. Paul’s collection covers the introduction of the BR corporate image uniform right up to the formation of EWS in 1996. According to Paul, many of the early uniforms lasted into early privatisation days. Pendon Vale Scene Figures Last year I was approached by Pendon Museum to assist with creating new figures specifically for the Vale Scene. A day was spent with Pendon volunteers dressed up in 1930’s clothing, in poses depicting farm workers, people shopping and people in conversation. 18 figures were created in total with more planned, including some scans of children from the local primary school in Long Wittenham. The figures are being released in batches throughout the year, with initial releases available exclusively from the Pendon museum shop or via their website. At present 8 figures are available from the Modelu webshop (Farm Workers & Women in Conversation), and 18 figures are available direct from Pendon (Farm Workers, Men & Women in Conversation, Women Shopping). You can access the Pendon webshop here. Porters Porters and station staff are an area I've been looking to revisit for a time, so it was fortunate to have my stand at the Great Central show alongside Jack Shaw's excellent Penrhyn Quarry Railway. ack is a volunteer at the GCR and kindly agreed to brave the hot weather and be scanned in some of his collection of period clothing. Over the weekend we created a number of new figures including: Pre-Grouping locomotive crew, Workmen and Porters. 5 new Porters and a Shunter have been added to the webshop, with rest of the new figures being added to the website over the coming weeks. Scans In the Pipeline! These following screenshots are straight from the scanner before I've done any cleanup, but will give an idea of what is to come over the Summer. I'm aiming to have all of these figures in the range in time for Railwell's in August. New Loco Crew (Thanks to Chris Chewter) Pre-grouping Loco Crew (thanks to Jack Shaw) Workmen (thanks to Jack Shaw) Musicians (Thanks to David Brandreth) Products in the Pipeline Point Rodding LNWR, LMS/BR and L&Y point rodding designs have now been completed and are currently under test. I'm experimenting with not printing the ferrules which retain the rodding, in order to avoid threading the rollers onto the rods. Samples of these will be going out for test in the next week or so and realistically they won't be on sale until the Autumn. Platform Lamps After the initial success with the L&Y lamps, there has been no movement on this project for many months unfortunately. Reason being the time they take to print and the demands on my equipment to keep on top of stock for exhibitions and orders. I have a couple of customer commissions which I'm aiming to finish over the summer, so this project will get some attention finally. The cost of the final products will be completely dependent on how long they take to produce, which I'm hoping to minimise as much as practical without losing any quality. Loco Shed Detailing Last October I spent a day at Didcot with the extremely helpful Loco dept manager Kevin Dare. Kevin helped me scan many items suitable for detailing a loco shed as well as a few other items of interest. These include: loco brake blocks, loco oil cans (3 sizes), loco jack, cosmetic screw link coupling, fire hose cabinet, sand and fire buckets, vacuum pipe, ATC bell. I was also able to clamber up onto Cookham Manor and scan it's BR pattern Chimney! Chairs and Sleepers Successful test prints have been made of GWR slide chairs, Concrete Pot sleepers and a number of pre-grouping chairs including LSWR, GCR and Cambrian. However, the material my equipment uses is a methacrylate and is not compatible with butanone. I'm currently looking into cost effective methods of producing the chairs in ABS and hope to have some answers over the summer. That's it for now, just leaves me to say thank you to everyone who has shared photographs of their work on this thread, it really is a pleasure to see where the figures and lamps end up and how well they are painted. Cheers Alan 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted June 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2017 (edited) What an amazing collection Alan! The range looks to be coming on in leaps and bounds. Some of those early figures will certainly be finding their way across the North Sea. I'll need to come up with a story involving identical twins... PS: Would it be an idea to carry a beard with you for some of the pre-grouping scans? You could get one off a father christmas costume Edited June 29, 2017 by Mikkel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clearwater Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 My only question is what happened to "woman in conversation 3?" David 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 She had a beard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2017 Women in conversation brought to mind Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 I picked up several worker figures from Pendon this week as I needed to some 1910s labourers and now I find that Farmworker 3 seems to be Jezza. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Freeman Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Hi, Slide rail chairs - I wouldn't worry too much about not being compatible with Butanone. You can't stick chairs to rail with Butanone anyway, despite what some might think, it just won't last. The only way to stick slide rail chairs to rail is with superglue - ideally one of the ones with rubber in them, such as Gorilla, as that makes the joint more flexible and less liable to break. Also I find that Gorilla doesn't make the plastic go brittle like some superglues do. You do have to make sure that the rail is really clean to get a good bond. Obviously the ideal material for slide-rail chairs is metal but that probably makes it too expensive for most. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 I picked up several worker figures from Pendon this week as I needed to some 1910s labourers and now I find that Farmworker 3 seems to be Jezza. Nicely observed! Woman in Conversation 3 is probably too busy inverting her purse over Norn Iron to be scanned. Oops! Careful, we’ll both be banned! Oh yes, just me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Oops! Careful, we’ll both be banned! Oh yes, just me. I couldn't find Farmworkers 6,7 and 8 in the range; apparently, they've been sacked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted June 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2017 I can see Railwells being somewhat expensive..... Rob. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2017 I couldn't find Farmworkers 6,7 and 8 in the range; apparently, they've been sacked. They've gone back home due to not being wanted in this your country after Brexit. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Hi Alan, I am after some general figures wearing bib and brace overalls, no coat, with an optional cloth cap. I could not see any figures in your current range. Have you anything as described in the works? Gordon A Bristol 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2017 Hi Alan, I am after some general figures wearing bib and brace overalls, no coat, with an optional cloth cap. I could not see any figures in your current range. Have you anything as described in the works? Gordon A Bristol You could buy yourself some b&b's, seek Alan out at an exhibition and become famous overnight? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanbuttler Posted June 30, 2017 Author Share Posted June 30, 2017 What an amazing collection Alan! The range looks to be coming on in leaps and bounds. Some of those early figures will certainly be finding their way across the North Sea. I'll need to come up with a story involving identical twins... PS: Would it be an idea to carry a beard with you for some of the pre-grouping scans? You could get one off a father christmas costume Thanks Mikkel, I agree about facial hair and am looking at ways of adding some digitally, perhaps transplanted from another scan of someone with a beard! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanbuttler Posted June 30, 2017 Author Share Posted June 30, 2017 Hi Alan, I am after some general figures wearing bib and brace overalls, no coat, with an optional cloth cap. I could not see any figures in your current range. Have you anything as described in the works? Gordon A Bristol Hi Gordon, it's on the list along with some more general workers in overalls for generic use. I need some for Oswestry works as well :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanbuttler Posted June 30, 2017 Author Share Posted June 30, 2017 Hi, Slide rail chairs - I wouldn't worry too much about not being compatible with Butanone. You can't stick chairs to rail with Butanone anyway, despite what some might think, it just won't last. The only way to stick slide rail chairs to rail is with superglue - ideally one of the ones with rubber in them, such as Gorilla, as that makes the joint more flexible and less liable to break. Also I find that Gorilla doesn't make the plastic go brittle like some superglues do. You do have to make sure that the rail is really clean to get a good bond. Obviously the ideal material for slide-rail chairs is metal but that probably makes it too expensive for most. Thanks for the info Stephen, I've a few 2mm slide chairs to post your today along with the Adlakes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted June 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2017 My only question is what happened to "woman in conversation 3?" David One thing for certain, 1, 2, and 4 are talking about her... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris hndrsn Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Alan, They are magnificent new figures, I will now have to immediately go and buy some. Cheers, Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 My only question is what happened to "woman in conversation 3?" She was lost for words? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 You could buy yourself some b&b's, seek Alan out at an exhibition and become famous overnight? Mike. Mike that is plan B as I still have a bib & brace along with a cloth cap etc, but what position to pose in? The cloth caps Alan already does look like the Geordie variety. Gordon A Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bacon butty Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Hi Alan Like quite a few people on here I have the Rails of Sheffield Dynamometer Car on pre order. As Rapido are doing a very detailed interior that will be begging for a team of 1930's/40's technicians to be installed and there are some very good photos of the crew do you think there may be some scope in this? Hope so as I would be one of the first on the list! Thanks. Stuart 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris hndrsn Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Alan, My order of lamps and civilians arrived safely here in Australia today, they are, as previously, simply superb. The ladies will look good standing out front of a WW1 French laundry where they are washing Australian/British uniforms. I look forward to buying more figures and accessories from your future projects. A pity you don't do WW1 military figures, there are a couple of unique scenes and imagine vignettes I would like to recreate. Cheers, and thank you, Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBAGE Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Alan, My order of lamps and civilians arrived safely here in Australia today, they are, as previously, simply superb. The ladies will look good standing out front of a WW1 French laundry where they are washing Australian/British uniforms. I look forward to buying more figures and accessories from your future projects. A pity you don't do WW1 military figures, there are a couple of unique scenes and imagine vignettes I would like to recreate. Cheers, and thank you, Chris Alan, Sounds like someone has thrown the gauntlet down. Can you resist picking it up, I wonder? Bob 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanbuttler Posted July 18, 2017 Author Share Posted July 18, 2017 Alan, Sounds like someone has thrown the gauntlet down. Can you resist picking it up, I wonder? Bob I do have some plans afoot! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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