Skinnylinny Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 Another piece of LSWR rolling stock has rolled off the CAD workbench - this time an LSWR 16' horsebox, to go with the open carriage truck. The model has no floor, but is designed such that glazing can be added from underneath, before a plasticard partial floor can be glued to the tops of the solebars, and a compartment partition to two locating strips printed on the inside. This means that so far, my LSWR stock 3D printing CAD includes: A12 locomotive, part-finished F9 bodyshell, an open wagon, a carriage truck, a horsebox, a luggage van, a gunpowder van, a cattle wagon and a brake van. I've also been continuing work on the laser-cut LSWR 42' bogie stock at the club, which has now re-opened. These two carriages are now glazed and lettered, although one still requires lining out, and there are a couple of tiny spots of paint to be touched up. There's a full third, and a brake third. 7 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 ...can you tell what it is yet? A clue: There's one more still to add... (And no guesses for@BlueLightning, whom I've already told!) 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ianmaccormac Posted August 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2021 Hi Linny Are they models of Hornby Generics? Cheers, Ian 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2021 6 hours ago, Skinnylinny said: ...can you tell what it is yet? The most recent famous person to say that got the response, “A pair of handcuffs, mate.” 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 9 hours ago, Regularity said: The most recent famous person to say that got the response, “A pair of handcuffs, mate.” Eep. Well, there's one phrase I'll need to drop out of my vocabulary! *ahem* What it is is two of the three carriages of an SE&CR ex-LCDR 3-carriage pull-push set, as used with the Wainwright P class. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 9 hours ago, Regularity said: The most recent famous person to say that got the response, “A pair of handcuffs, mate.” Should've kept his didgeridoo to himself Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted August 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Skinnylinny said: *ahem* What it is is two of the three carriages of an SE&CR ex-LCDR 3-carriage pull-push set, as used with the Wainwright P class Ooooo very nice. An interesting and unusual push-pull set, - I'll be looking forward to seeing how they turn out. Edited August 31, 2021 by Annie Um......... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Definitely an interesting set - two different types of beading between three carriages. I'll admit that I drew up the 5-compartment Third, then used some virtual cut-and-shut to create the 4-compartment composite! The best thing since sliced... carriages? The driving third, though, has not only recessed panelling below the waist, but half-round beading above it demarcating the upper panels. This means that I can't get away with quite as much copying and pasting. 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted August 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Annie said: An interesting and unusual push-pull set... SR (and my) pedantry but they're pull-push sets I'm certainty looking forward to seeing them too Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted August 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2021 15 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: SR (and my) pedantry but they're pull-push sets I'm certainty looking forward to seeing them too I stand corrected. Over in Norfolk they called that kind of thing 'motor trains' so I guess that was why I put my foot in it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted August 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2021 40 minutes ago, Annie said: I stand corrected. Over in Norfolk they called that kind of thing 'motor trains' so I guess that was why I put my foot in it. Oh no, not at all, everyday's a school day. I didn't realise motor trains were a nationwide name for these setups either. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Motor Trains, Push-Pull, Auto Trains, Pull-Push... Vacuum, rodding, cable or compressed air... So many variations on the same basic principle! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted August 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2021 8 minutes ago, Skinnylinny said: Motor Trains, Push-Pull, Auto Trains, Pull-Push... Vacuum, rodding, cable or compressed air... So many variations on the same basic principle! Thinking about the ex LSWR Gate Sets in the early BR(S) era, how would these have been controlled? ta Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 They would have been built with the LSWR 3-wire system (three cables running over the roof), but converted to compressed-air during the Grouping, which was the standard system decided on by the Southern. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Right, that's the sides done... Now for the ends! 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schooner Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 What progress on all fronts! Bloody impressive stuff Linny, a real pleasure to have a quick catch-up on your projects many and various. Looking forward to the next update 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted September 5, 2021 Author Share Posted September 5, 2021 (edited) Well, the driver can now see where they're going, which is a start! As well as roof ventilators to all vehicles, windows, beading and lamp irons have been added to the driving end. Of the 5 other carriage ends, 4 have been completed, leaving just the one that will be up against the locomotive. Below you can see the alarm "butterflies" and the control gear for the electric lighting. The only steps and end handrails are on the non-driving end of the set. Still to go: Underframe detail (brakes, battery boxes and dynamos), buffers, rainstrips and roof electric lighting conduits (these vehicles being electrically-lit from the time they were converted to pull-push sets). Edit: I managed to get the lighting just right to highlight the panelling for this render, so have a view down the set from the other end! Edited September 6, 2021 by Skinnylinny 9 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted September 24, 2021 Author Share Posted September 24, 2021 Another quiet day of resting at home, but a little work has been ongoing on the layout lately with... gasp Physical modelling! The station building for Linton Town is to be a somewhat bashed-about Peco Manyways station kit and station house kit. It's a great pity that the bay windows and extensions provided in the N scale station house kit don't come with the 00 version, but at least I have a gents' at one end. I assume the ladies' would be accessed through the waiting room? An alternative would be I have a Wills "Small Gents' Lavatory" (open-top and with a visible urinal and covered cubicle) which could be pressed into service as a gents' at the far end of the building. The canopy is not yet attached (hence the propping-up on the paint pot) to allow access for detail painting - I will probably pick out around the windows and doors with engineers' blue brick, and lintels and sills will be in sandstone, from the South Park Quarry, near Oak Hill. Then there's the chimneys, guttering, downpipes, flashing... Much work still to do! 4 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted September 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 24, 2021 A very grand station, as befits such a terminus! I'd agree that the ladies facilities would be access through the waiting room. More specifically, through the ladies waiting room, which would either be accessed off the general waiting room, or may have it's own door to the platform. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Smith Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 Verwood, even though a very modest building (with much to be modest about), had the ladies 'washroom' accessible only from the dedicated 'Ladies Waiting Room'. Ladies and gents facilities were in an extension built on the side of the original building. The 'gents' was accessible only from the platform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted September 24, 2021 Author Share Posted September 24, 2021 Gents' it shall be then! The ladies' will have to be squeezed in somewhere. I thought the building looked very bland with just red brick everywhere, so I decided to highlight the bricks around the doors and windows. At first, I was leaning towards engineers' blue brick, but @BlueLightning persuaded me to go for yellow brick instead, and I'm glad he did - it contrasts nicely with the GSR royal blue window frames. Then I thought it was still very plain, so this happened... Of course, I then realised that the bottom row will be hidden on the platform side by the canopy, although as that was a later addition (hence the later-added wall extension to the right of the image) this seems reasonable! 7 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 I initially thought this was a scratchbuild - excellent work, Linny ! To my northern eyes, it certainly looks very southern and could be straight from the pages of Vivian Thompson's Period Railway Modelling: Buildings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted September 24, 2021 Author Share Posted September 24, 2021 Thank you, CKPR! It just goes to show what can be done with what is a very nicely-designed modular kit, and a hacksaw. I'm hoping to hide most of the joints between the sections with downpipes, but there is one corner on the backscene side where there is a window which I would prefer not to be there! I'm still deciding exactly what will go there to hide it. I can't get away with a telephone box yet, but might get a post box? Might need to be something taller though as the lintel is the same height as those on the doors. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 A large poster board ? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted September 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 24, 2021 Downpipes with a hopper covering the lintel? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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