Rob Pulham Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 I am sure you are right Paul, he says scratching head vigorously!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 Further successes on the spray painting front - this is using Citadel (Games Workshop) Bleached Bone. This is the Slaters 14 ton Class A tank wagon from the beginning of this thread (not the scratch build just in case you though I had sneaked in and finished it). it has languished in primer for the best part of a year waiting for me to get some transfers for a class A (and ultimately why I started scratch building the class B - I had the transfers) 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Have you used this colour as a primer? Or is this the base colouer for the tank? Looks splendid anyway. I hope that axle box is not fixed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 Have you used this colour as a primer? Or is this the base colouer for the tank? Looks splendid anyway. I hope that axle box is not fixed. Hi Peter, that's the base colour for the tank, it was primed with Halfords grey from a rattle can. Fortunately the axlebox is sprung so just needed twisting back into line. I just need to paint the under-gubbins black and add the transfers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 very nice work! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted February 26, 2012 Author Share Posted February 26, 2012 Needing a break from lining Papyrus I spent a bit of time putting the transfers on this Parkside LMS Meat van - just needs a little weathering and it's ready for service. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted April 2, 2012 Author Share Posted April 2, 2012 Havng been and bought some ply sheets for my forthcoming layout I have also done a bit of work on one of my part built kits. This is a Slaters Tar Tank and I used the Brassmasters jig to set up the axles and while I was waiting for the glue to dry I made a replacement filler cap fitting as the Slaters plastic one looked quite vulnerable. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 The new filler clamp looks 100% better than the plastic one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 While at the cottage over the last few weekends I have been batch building three Midland Cattle wagons from Slaters kits of various vintages. The oldest I picked up from last years bring and buy at Halifax show. All have been built pretty much to the instructions. However all needed the sole bars packing out with plasticard and then filling back to fit, as they were all slightly too short. I also did a bit of variety with the bars in the sides/doors, making a couple up with bars fitted from the outside and one with them drilled through. - Although I did chicken out of the Slaters method of cutting slits at the back with a razor saw and then filling with car body filler after inserting the bar. Now it's back to the J63 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 It is nice to be able to batch build sometimes. I did 8 Haywoods kits a while back. All for other people. Your cattle wagons look good together with all the slight differences. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted May 18, 2012 Author Share Posted May 18, 2012 Work on the J63 has been on hold for a week as I have been away in North Yorkshire (I did manage to fit in a visit to the NRM at Shildon and 2 visits to the NYMR in the week though). Despite being away modelling didn't stop and I have a few Slaters/Parkside kits completed or almost. The first is a Slaters Midland 5 plank open from a very old kit that I picked up at the bring and buy at Halifax. In an effort to improve it I scribed the inner planking and added representations of the inner strapping from plasticard strips rivetting them with a scriber. Despite it's age the mouldings are really crisp and it went together very easily. I am very pleased with the result. Next up is a Parkside 12 ton unfitted van. The only changes I did with this was to file the brake levers down so that they better represent the various bends and drilled out the lever guard to represent the holes for the securing pin. Next is a Parkside LNER 20 ton Steel hopper wagon. This I built straight out of thew box and despite it's many parts to make the hopper it allwent together very easily. I just ad to add one strip of plastic to make up a gap where the two sections of hopper didn't quite mate properly. This is one that I had put off for a while due to the many bits. Now I wish I had just got on with it as it's made up in to a very nice wagon and I think a few more of these may be in order. Last but not least is a Parkside LNER Horse Box. This is one of Parksides most recent releases and to be honest it shows with the level of detail and the lack of flash etc. There is provision for the small opening window in the groom toilet that was a feature of these boxes so I cut a circle of plasticard using an olfa circle cutter and then cut segments to represent the edge guides for the opening window. I aslo added a strip under this to make up the top of the frame for the bottom pane. I still have the brake yokes etc to add to this one but as I am painting it in LNER colours I wanted to be able to drop the wheels out to paint them teak brown before they are trapped by the brakes. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Nice work. These plastic kits are wonderful do do whilst away from home. You need so little with you to be able to build them. I particularly like what you have don with the horse box opening lights. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgeT Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Hi Rob, Fine work on the horse-box as per usual, l love parkside kit's as well, so nice to put together, and they look the part too...... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Just looked in on this again, some nice work there. I particularly liked the new filler cap in brass. How much was the Brassmasters jig and are they still available? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazz Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Those seats look wicked, my good lady gave a very negative reply when I suggest she do the same for me. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted May 19, 2012 Author Share Posted May 19, 2012 Just looked in on this again, some nice work there. I particularly liked the new filler cap in brass. How much was the Brassmasters jig and are they still available? Hi Jeff, they are £10 (£5 cheaper than they were - not often in today's climate that things get cheaper). I don't know as to availability, they had sold all the batch that mine came from but that was a few weeks ago so they may have another batch by now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted May 19, 2012 Author Share Posted May 19, 2012 Those seats look wicked, my good lady gave a very negative reply when I suggest she do the same for me. Thanks Ken, I am very fortunate that Chris takes a big interest in my hobby. The diorama in the last few photo's is all down to Chris, apart from me cutting the webbing on the track and respacing the sleepers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted August 5, 2012 Author Share Posted August 5, 2012 While I have been steadily working on Nellie (not much progress this week due to being worn out and not having the patience) , Chris has been weaving her magic on the Connoisseur Implement wagon. And last but not least I did this earlier today - I have an almost complete Parkside LMS Brake van on the go. And while I built most of it at the cottage I brought it home to solder some of the brake fittings together. While rummaging in a drawer for the backhead for Nellie I remembered that I had bought aa few cast brake van stoves from Slaters at one of the shows. So I got one out, soldered some copper tube in for the chimney and then gave it a good clean with shiny sinks. Then I immersed it in Carrs brass black. Once I had rinsed it to stop the reaction I dryed and rubbed it with some paper towl resulting in this: Which to my mind gives a great representation of the black lead that my mother used to use on our cast stove when I lived at home. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Wagon and stove look very good. As you say the stove has the sheen of Zebo, I think that was the stove black brand. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazz Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Excellent work on the implement wagon. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share Posted September 4, 2012 While I have been catching up on painting my back log of rolling stock, Chris my good lady has been weathering some of the ones that I have put the transfers on. And last but not least, this is my favourite from this batch of photos 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 Smashing building and pics., Rob., and hat`s off to Chris., for her excellent weathering! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 The wagons look good now finished. I do think the Meat wagon is the best dirty but not OTT. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 The promised tractor photos - this one is mucky rather than rusty..... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted December 18, 2012 Author Share Posted December 18, 2012 (edited) Work on the turntable has come to a temporary halt. It's almost ready for painting but I need to change the filters on my spray booth extractor. So to keep my hand in, I started this kit on Saturday. It's one that my good lady bought me for Christmas last year - a Connoisseur North British 20 ton brake van. Jim only provides a floor for the veranda section (not really a veranda on this one but you get the idea). So I made one up from some brass sheet. To bring it to the same level as the other floor I used some spare angle bracket from the turntable. Waste nowt! And inside the van I reinforced the roof with some square section nickel bar to make it clip into the roof. I will also add some longer springy bits down the sides to help the middle sit down properly. I also added some scrap etch strip to the back of the step supports and the brake brackets. . This is where I got to last night. Today while sitting in the smallest room in the house, I had the thought. "I wonder if I have any photo's in my Tatlow LNER Wagons volumes that might give me any missing details." Have you ever wished that you'd had that thought earlier......? Tatlow revealed a second set of handrails below those on the non veranda end. Not too difficult to add thought I. Then I noticed the very distinctive curved ends to the vertical handrails and the fact that they don't sit at 90% to the side of the van. Oh Bovver!!! Says I. So the next job tonight is to see if I can make a jig to bend 4 of those - before I take the ones I made earlier off. Edited December 18, 2012 by Rob Pulham 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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