RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 8, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2017 Just a couple more shots of the woodwork. I have rubbed some of the black off with micro fine wet and dry. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poggy1165 Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Lovely work. Beautifully understated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Looking really good. I love the 'distressed' top surface of the bolsters. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coal Tank Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Stunning Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 10, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2017 I started to build a loco coal wagon about 4 months ago but I wasn't very happy with it. The plank lines were to deep and the lines didn't look right so I have decided to make another. I spent most of the morning producing scrap plastic again. Some days it just doesn't work for me. Perhaps if I tided my work bench I would stand a better chance. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 I'd be happy with that, but then maybe I'm easily satisfied. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 10, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2017 Jim, I think we all do the best we can with whatever we have. I think I am still trying to prove to myself having been hopeless at school all those years ago and being told so by my teachers. The clamp is to hold the side on while the glue is setting and bit of plastic is there to put a bit of bow in place. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coal Tank Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Clever idea Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 10, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2017 (edited) Corner plates on and buffers just placed in to check all is level and square. I am trying to build about 25 wagons this year before starting next year on baseboards and loco's. That is the plan, but things could change as they sometimes do. Edited September 10, 2017 by airnimal 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted September 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2017 Hope you don't mind, I've corrected the background of your last photo... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 11, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2017 (edited) Very good. I will show my better half, she will have a good chuckle. I am a Luddite. I could not do anything like that, I am still surprised that I can post on here. I have decided to put some early buffers on this wagon and the only ones I know from the trade are the G.W.R. One's from Peco. The hole I drilled for the A.B.S. buffers is 3.9mm and the backing plate from the Peco buffers are the same size. So I have cut of the extended part of the base and stuck this piece on to a strip of 30thou Evergreen and cut them out. I then drilled and added the bolts from MasterClub. They are 1.0mm hexagon part number M.C435057. This is not going to be a quick build. The photos are in reverse order. Edited December 16, 2018 by airnimal 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2017 What was wrong with those nice cast whitemetal LNWR-pattern 3-bolt buffer housings in yesterday's post? I managed to get hold of an old Ratio kit for one of these loco coal wagons in 4 mm scale so am watching closely what you do with this build! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 11, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2017 Compound, there is nothing wrong with the white metal buffers it's just that I like the early buffers as in the photo in L.N.W.R miscellany. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2017 Compound, there is nothing wrong with the white metal buffers it's just that I like the early buffers as in the photo in L.N.W.R miscellany. Thanks - I'm aiming for my favoured 1903-ish period so am reassured! I see the one in the book has the weird cross-legged brake gear too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Western Star Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 I see the one in the book has the weird cross-legged brake gear too. So now you know how MIke keeps his wagon building down to 25 per year. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2017 So now you know how MIke keeps his wagon building down to 25 per year. What, by modelling whilst seated in that position? No wonder his modelling is so near perfection... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 What, by modelling whilst seated in that position? No wonder his modelling is so near perfection... Zen and the art of wagon building... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 12, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12, 2017 A couple of cruel close ups showing the buffers now I have chemically blackened them. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 12, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12, 2017 A little more progress with the help from my home made spacer jig. I have also marked it up to put the side ironwork on. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coal Tank Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Lovely work as always Mike John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Nifty little jig. Now filed away four future use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 12, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12, 2017 I am please people like what I am trying to achieve, but the best part is showing ideas that I have picked up on my travels. I still remember looking at the models on the competition stand at the Manchester exhibition at the Corn Exchange over 50 years ago an wondering how the heck did they do that. So if I can show people how to do something that they have not seen before then to me that is a bonus. The little jig can be used on all manner of thinks like loco's and buildings.I know I am not the first to use simple jigs, they have been around for thousands of years in one form or another. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 13, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 13, 2017 I have just spent a couple of hours putting coach bolts and nuts on thr ironwork. Still to do are the horse hooks and label clips and one or two other bits and pieces. I don't know what to do about the coach bolts on the corner plates because they were only 3/8'' That works out to 8.61 thou in 7mm scale. I have some coach bolts from MasterClub but they are 19 thou across the head and 11 thou stem. I have some 12 thou drills but the idea of drilling 104 11thou holes is enough to send mad. How many drills would I break and could I get them all lined up properly and they would be all oversize anyway. I know a lot of detail we put on our models is often oversize so would it be better not to put these on ? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 I work on the principle of including what I call ' significant detail'. That I define as 'detail which would be noticed for its absence'. Anything which breaks up an otherwise plain surface, such as a row of bolts/rivets, or breaks a line, such as a pipe crossing a footplate edge. Sometimes it's better to have something slightly overscale rather than not there at all. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted September 13, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 13, 2017 Caley Jim, l hear what you say but I am thinking the amount of work involved they may be something else I could do. I have in the past when I have painted the interior of some wagons l have just used a pencil to put a small mark where the rivets are. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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