RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted December 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2021 Hi Festive greetings ! This has taken a long time to complete but I now have got 15 KSA cubes running. N gauge soc kit introduced a "few years back" and having been a Saltley seagull then really a required train. Obvs 47145 to haul it along with another.. but these are packed away so a green 31- old chassis and it romps with 15 on! A couple of pics, if I knew how then moving pictures would be better. The side on shot shows the myriad of transfers 12 or so per side so 24 per wagon X15 = madness , but now it is done. Bogies are the society /atm ones but fitted with Dapol fixed knuckle couplers 1 short and one med makes for a good gap - train has to run over a bit of 12" rad curve. Paint is just Halfords red primer and a ford polar grey for chassis - the panel lines on Bernard Taylor`s excellent mastered resin body is a posca grey paint pen which matches the polar grey by chance... a bit "more than lucky" bogies are held on by self tapping screws from Spalding fastenings . I have to refit one brake wheel and a couple of ferry hooks I have lost- where do they go ! Luckily Ben Ando on the etch works knew of my hamfistedness and has got spares ... It has helped my day off work go by with the last fixing of body shells to chassis and a chance to clear dust sheets of Templedean and give a spin, Dapol HST testing inner circle. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted December 25, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2021 Couple more pics, 15th not shown now has dummy tail lamp, 6 hooks and one ferry lashing eye refitted. So for a first in a long time a completed project. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Nice work, Robert. Making that deeply ribbed body master was quite a marathon; glad it came out right. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted December 25, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2021 Bernard, festive greetings !! I am glad you went the extra 26 miles ... 15 wagons is very impressive and satisfyingly noisy over rail joints as it rolls around the layout. Plenty to keep me going with a load of 10 autoballaster kits to finish off and currently putting in the ratchet tensioner holes and side framing on a 3 Tench wagons also of society parentage. I need to cut a zillion strips for concrete sleepers a use some finescale track and sleepers on top row.. one wagon will be stanchions for code 40 rail but need to sort out some sort of strapping to hold down load, needs to be 0.4mm wide. Hopefully not into the SABLE situation - "stock acquired beyond life expectancy ..." 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Ben Posted December 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2021 HI Robert, Wow - fantastic job! The colours look spot on too. Apologies for all the decals - unfortunately the real things were festooned with safety and information markings! cheers Ben A. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 I've spent an inordinate time putting together five of these in their later timber carrier conversion guise. About the same number of decals, at least one of which I'm becoming convinced doesn't actually exist on the sheet like the Emperor's new clothes, I'm just imagining putting it in approximately the right place. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted December 25, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2021 Well thanks for the comments , amazingly I put all the transfers on in just two "sittings" doing all of one side of 15 and then going to work! Just had a big sort out of the storage boxes and scared myself with 4 of the 32 litre folding storage boxes with foam trays filled with part started projects and can add a couple of the lidded boxes with 3D print bodies. Along with to - please Ben two sets of Cartic 4s almost finished. I really need to find an extra year or so to make decent inroads in to this N gauge "Vic berry stack." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MrSimon Posted December 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2021 Hi Robert, I’d recommend some of the vinyl lining tape cut down for load straps - Duncan put me onto it and it looks really effective. Great work on the cubes! Good luck on the Autoballasters… Simon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
porkie Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Supurb modelling. They look Spot on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted February 23, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2022 Two pics , not of best quality, but showing the rake of 15 behind a 66 - ought to be an EWS one really on Warley club Broadwater junction layout. With med and short Dapol dummy buckeye couplers happily traverse the 15" curves - and for fun propelled round as well. I was asked if they were for sale which I guess is a good start. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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