Martin's new builds - tales from the dining room table on to the next jobs

[MJI]

Just soldered on the tie bars and printing off some more hopper brakes .

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Coming along well

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Got another on the way, need to order 20 3 hole disc wheels

 

Got door bangs and more axle boxes from Chivers on the way.

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This i hope to be a Christmas project

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Found a few early parkside wagons.

 

3 OWVs

 

But early with clunky brake gear and no tie rods.

 

One is being altered with tie rods,  Alan Gibson wheels and so on.

 

Will be a pool 7401 clayliner.

 

Other 2 painted up as clayliner already but no tie rods and plastic wheels.

 

Also found 4 ratio clay wagons.

[MJI]

I had to replace the solebars and brake gear, used it off a ply van being built as a clasp brake.

 

Buffers are bad so will get B004

Will be B486717

 

First SR one will be S7013 with  BP01 and roller bearings,

Latest will be S13735 with same roller bearings and B018

 

Going to do - my targets

5 Parkside 5 plank as BR (found 10 at least)

1 Parkside 5 plank as ex LMS (found 2)

3 Cambrian as ex SR (found 4)

3 Cambrian as ex LNER

1 Ratio updated as ex GWR

 

3 5 plank BR Need body from somewhere

3 5.5 plank ex GWR - may use ratio

1 all plank ex LMS

 

Will have 4 done by new year apart from transfers

[Rich Papper]

2 hours ago, MJI said:

Will have 4 done by new year apart from transfers

 

Wish I was as fast as you! I do have a small pile of kits to do and some Dapol Grampus and Turbot to fettle, but they never seem to get to the top of the pile. In fairness, I'm quite quick at the building, it's the painting that takes me an age.

Rich

[MJI]

1 hour ago, Rich Papper said:

 

Wish I was as fast as you! I do have a small pile of kits to do and some Dapol Grampus and Turbot to fettle, but they never seem to get to the top of the pile. In fairness, I'm quite quick at the building, it's the painting that takes me an age.

Rich

Parside and Cambrian kits are easy to build, and one OWV is a repair job

[MJI]

Started on the LRM kit.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 23, 2023 by MJI
Edited on PC

[MJI]

Very dull today, may not do any to loco.

[MJI]

Gearbox assembled, footplate started, next job involves wheels so no more today.

 

Pictures next time.

[MJI]

Just checking chassis for fit to body, had to drill a hole for a bolt head

 

 

One thing I had to fix was slotting the lamp iron holes more, I used a damaged 0.5mm drill (bent shaft) and fretted them out about 0.5mm to 1mm each

Edited December 28, 2023 by MJI

[MJI]

Curve on top of side, very fiddly to do

 

Helpd ruler done and used modelling knife handle

 

Not bad but will tidy when I solder the cab ends to the sides at the top

Edited December 29, 2023 by MJI

[MJI]

Been working as well today on a ballast wagon, a clayliner wagin, and some air cons using Airfix models.

 

Get bored of fettling carriages to fit laserglaze, get soldering on a steam loco.

 

I am doing 3 distinct eras/locations over 2 rough locations and 2 rough eras.

 

 

[MJI]

On 21/12/2023 at 16:39, MJI said:

I had to replace the solebars and brake gear, used it off a ply van being built as a clasp brake.

 

Buffers are bad so will get B004

Will be B486717

 

First SR one will be S7013 with  BP01 and roller bearings,

Latest will be S13735 with same roller bearings and B018

 

Going to do - my targets

5 Parkside 5 plank as BR (found 10 at least)

1 Parkside 5 plank as ex LMS (found 2)

3 Cambrian as ex SR (found 4)

3 Cambrian as ex LNER

1 Ratio updated as ex GWR

 

3 5 plank BR Need body from somewhere

3 5.5 plank ex GWR - may use ratio

1 all plank ex LMS

 

Will have 4 done by new year apart from transfers

 

Two not four as buffers not yet arrived for one, and one not started as I want to get a couple into ready for paint first.

 

And I burnt a finger

[MJI]

The bunker rear has been a PITA had two goes with annealing.

 

Good job steam locos are not perfect.

 

Will have one place a skim of car body filler will be needed.

 

Will get picture up later.

 

Now the shocker. Using electrical solder for main assembly ,  and 145 for everything else .

 

I use electrical like lmp, dab onto fluxed model.

 

Also 2 hours limit at a time.

[MJI]

 

Tank top clean up required, bunker rear desolder and refit .

 

Not great but it is mine.

 

Will be 41900 which was local to where i grew up but my earliest memory is a warship

[MJI]

 

Bunker now ok

[MJI]

Acceptable

[MJI]

May need to add another couple of brackets to coal rail, will check photos more carefully, a bit awkward to tell, but most photos who it well laden with coal.

 

The different solders are working well.

 

Would be interesting to see what the alloys are, only know my tin lead

[MJI]

Just done some detail bits, drilling out handrail knob holes on doors to fit the knobs. But too dark now, restart tomorrow.

[Jol Wilkinson]

Hi Martin,

 

good progress on the tank loco.

 

Electrical solder isn't a good choice in my view. It tends/is designed to form a relatively large joint and doesn't flow well, often leaving a large fillet of solder that has to be cleaned off. A specific modelling lead based solder such as Carrs 188 will flow better but still enable you to add other parts without fear of unsoldering existing joints.

 

Having said that I use LRM 145 solder almost exclusively for kit building only occasionally using 188deg on brass or n/s, or 100 deg on white metal. I only use pre-fluxed electrical solder  for assembling components onto pcbs or layout wiring where a large solder joint is an advantage.

 

 

 

Jol

[MJI]

Happy to get some more solders.

 

I do NOT like the lead free electrical stuff, cannot get on with it. Hence my bulk buys many years ago.

 

I think apart from main joins this is mainly 145 solder

 

Plenty of clean up anyway but I have fibreglass pencils and a seam scraper.

 

The 145 is finer and does neater joins, use it for adding all the small bits on.

 

I know it is not perfect, but with paint and a bit of weathering it will be fine.

 

It will pass the 1m rule fine and be acceptable at 500mm.

 

With back to work and lighting will be weekends only after today.