Hills of the North - The Last Great Project

[Tony Teague]

5 minutes ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Tony,

 

Doing nothing is a pure art form that has been conditioned out of you from a very early age when you were packed off to government sponsored compliance institution known as school. If you didn't receive such compliance training from such an early age there is no way you would ever put up with the nonsense that is known as employment !

 

Just remember, if hard work was good for you the rich and greedy would have kept it to themselfs.

 

I do so hope that the above helps your current state of mind.

 

Gibbo.

 

I feel better already!

[LNER4479]

Both bogies done now. That looks better. 

 

Now to return to the body beautiful

[Chas Levin]

2 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

That is far too posh. 

Brilliant piece of kit, highly recommended! Posh perhaps, but does exactly what it says on the tin...

[jukebox]

Well since I last looked in on this thread, I had a good night's sleep, and have washed my car when I got up at 6am here.  

 

So I feel a little less guilty about my lack of modelling progress compared to your blink-of-an-eye speed!

 

Looking great.  

 

Scott

[Barry Ten]

Good work on those bogies, I always feel that I spend a disproportionate amount of time opening up the holes in the back of the axlebox castings. 

[Dr Gerbil-Fritters]

I've noticed that this thread has contributions from Barry O and Barry Ten.

 

I want to know when Barrys one to nine are going to start posting.

[Gibbo675]

18 minutes ago, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said:

I've noticed that this thread has contributions from Barry O and Barry Ten.

 

I want to know when Barrys one to nine are going to start posting.

Hi Fritters,

 

If they do there will be a trains worth of construction all at once.

 

Gibbo.

[St Enodoc]

49 minutes ago, jukebox said:

Well since I last looked in on this thread, I had a good night's sleep, and have washed my car when I got up at 6am here.  

 

So I feel a little less guilty about my lack of modelling progress compared to your blink-of-an-eye speed!

 

Looking great.  

 

Scott

I'm back too. Nearly lunch time here though. I think I might have turkey for a change.

Edited December 27, 2020 by St Enodoc

[Dr Gerbil-Fritters]

Just gone 1am here... can't sleep because Storm Bella is roaring across the rooftops.  My old roof sheds tiles randomly all year, gawd knows what will be left in the morning.

[LNER4479]

Time to draw stumps. Conclusion? Not quite possible to build a coach in a day but came close.

 

Still to do: roof detail, end handrails etc, door handles and undergubbins. Will aim to finish these off over next few days. Thanks for your interest today. 

[Dr Gerbil-Fritters]

And a smashing coach it is, too. 

[cheesysmith]

Like how it is positioned in the photo, with the building in the background. Makes it look like it's outside of a works somewhere, but the giant blue tack gives it away lol.

[Barry O]

2 hours ago, cheesysmith said:

Like how it is positioned in the photo, with the building in the background. Makes it look like it's outside of a works somewhere, but the giant blue tack gives it away lol.

 

That is Red Leader Coach, wagon and loco works.. that is!

 

Well done Red Leader....me I put transfers on yet more wagons.. I have had to order some more underframe kits..pah!

Baz

[Chas Levin]

3 hours ago, cheesysmith said:

Like how it is positioned in the photo, with the building in the background. Makes it look like it's outside of a works somewhere, but the giant blue tack gives it away lol.

Could be an advertising hoarding for the Blu-Tak company?

[Gibbo675]

1 hour ago, Chas Levin said:

Could be an advertising hoarding for the Blu-Tak company?

Hi Chas,

 

Leave the lad alone, he used solder to hold it all together not Blu-Tack !?!?!

 

Gibbo

[aardvark]

On 27/12/2020 at 06:04, Barry O said:

Kaufmann clamp makes fastening the ends to the sides easier..available from branchlineds..

 

Looking good though.

 

Bas

 

Coffman??

[Mallard60022]

On 27/12/2020 at 04:32, cheesysmith said:

Like how it is positioned in the photo, with the building in the background. Makes it look like it's outside of a works somewhere, but the giant blue tack gives it away lol.

and the V sign......

 

[Mallard60022]

8 hours ago, aardvark said:

 

Coffman??

No, just a tickle thanks.........

 

[Mallard60022]

On 27/12/2020 at 01:28, LNER4479 said:

Time to draw stumps. Conclusion? Not quite possible to build a coach in a day but came close.

 

Still to do: roof detail, end handrails etc, door handles and undergubbins. Will aim to finish these off over next few days. Thanks for your interest today. 

 

That's a beast G. How many do you need?

[LNER4479]

2 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

 

That's a beast G. How many do you need?

Just doing the calcs at the moment but it's ... er ... more than just one or two!

 

Apologies for radio silence over the last 24 hours or so. I had to go and lie down in a darkened room after that more-or-less continuous 16 hour session on Boxing Day. There's always a bit of come back from an effort like that.

 

Will attempt to post something later on. There's one or two aspects of the build that may be of interest.

[Mallard60022]

Just hinting that a few basic solder jobs could be outsourced; not enough to spoil the finished article!!!!!

[Mallard60022]

16 hrs is pretty good matey.  In almost one go is tough though. Sadly that 16 would be spread over at least 4 days with me if it was hinges and all......all door Gresleys were a PITA. However I wasn't building to a planned schedule as you are so well disciplined to achieve.

P

[LNER4479]

1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said:

Just hinting that a few basic solder jobs could be outsourced; not enough to spoil the finished article!!!!!

Noted most gratefully.

 

Quite a bit in the bank already so far as I'm concerned so gonna need a few more sessions 'Up the Junction'!

[LNER4479]

OK. So, still not quite fully recovered, here nonetheless a couple of coach snaps:

 

Here's the body inverted. One thing I don't like are big long lengths of sides unsupported. Nothing worse than a floppy body (even though there are the fold up tabs on the chassis floor to stop it bowing inwards). So I prepared some simple strips of scratch etch that were the same width as the ends and simply soldered them in situ with the body and chassis attached, but prior to roof fixing. Body now firm!

 

So far as the roof goes, I have an inherent mistrust of glue so I folded up more scrap etch and soldered them to the ends as you can see here, then drilled down from the roof into said etch to accept a 12BA Bolt. But won't the bolt head show, I hear you ask? (anyone?) ...

 

Aha! Bolt hole was cunningly marked and drilled in the position of the water filler, the head of the 12BA bolt being the ideal size. I then opened out the slot in the top to accept a piece of 0.5mm brass wire, folded up to shape, a quick zap with the iron and there we have it.

(I have also run some superglue into the gap where the sides and roof meet - from the inside with the body upside-down - and left it overnight)

 

Whilst we're on the subject of coaches, been working away at this on and off over the last few weeks.

 

 

With internal partitions cut to shape and fixed and then ends affixed with nothing more sophisticated than UHU (no choice but to use glue on this kit!), it too is a nice solid body structure. There's some weight in those chunky ends.

 

 

And here we are, of about 30 minutes ago. Runs nicely. Together with the Stanier RF wot I built some 20 years ago, it's a start on trying to build up some more esoteric vehicles to go with what is available RTR.

 

 

 

[Barry Ten]

On 27/12/2020 at 00:39, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said:

I've noticed that this thread has contributions from Barry O and Barry Ten.

 

I want to know when Barrys one to nine are going to start posting.

 

I've been three "Barrys" already. When I signed onto Rmweb for the first time I noticed that everyone seemed to have secret codenames,

so I chose Barry Boy as my first login (cunningly due to the fact that I'm from, er, Barry.) Later there was a software glitch thing where a number of members had to resubscribe, so i came back in as Barry Yob (a fiendishly clever anagram of my earlier name) and then when I had to re-subscribe a second time I kept up the Barry theme by going for Barry Ten, after "the Barry Ten" locomotives left over from Woodham's yard. All immensely tedious now and totally pointless as no one remembers the actual Barry Ten.

 

Al (with apologies for the digression from the fine coachbuilding).