Rumney Models

[BR traction instructor]

Plenty of cleaning up to do but the bottom door release handles/shielding and hopper body supports are going on the prototype.

 

Poorly milled/off centre brass section caused some work to be redone/sections thinned on the nearer body support.

 

The ladders have been rescued from an earlier attempt at one of these hoppers by the late David Goodwin.

 

Spring stops, buffer steps and the smaller body supports fitted. Two leaf spring/axleboxes to fit, two main body supports to fabricate/fit, a couple of solebar details req and a couple of rivet strips to add at each end then it is priming time before adding some rivet detail completes construction...

 

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Edited March 17 by BR traction instructor

[BR traction instructor]

Construction is complete on the prototype diagram 1/161 hopper and it is now in red oxide primer/getting the Archer rivet detail added prior to finish painting, lettering & weathering. The ladders are a nod to a respected fellow modeller, the late David 'Nobber' Goodwin from Barrowmore club, who passed away some 6 years ago. He made the first attempt to construct one of these for Mostyn but unfortunately got the wheelbase wrong and the model never made it on to the layout. Building his ladders onto the first of five such hoppers ensures that at least some of his effort isn't wasted and provides a nice memory of him. His now modified hopper body will also end up on one of Justin's underframes to come.

 

The use of the incorrectly dimensioned hopper body and consequent scratchbuilt underframe with incorrect wheelbase is shown here simply to highlight the advantage of adapting Justin's Tippler underframe combined with using the David Monk Steel dimensioned drawing for the type. The yellow powder was meant to show that the hopper was in sulphur traffic...

 

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Edited April 17 by BR traction instructor

[BR traction instructor]

Rivets everywhere is the order of play with these hoppers, any added as surface decals needing to be similar to the moulded ones on the body. The stock of Archer resin rivets is quickly being consumed by the prototype hopper and fresh stocks of a couple of Railtec variants are now on order to provide for the four production hoppers. Matte varnish is used to seal the rivet rows in place and everything allowed to dry completely between riveting sessions.

 

The Railtec rivet detail arrived the day after ordering and looks to be a good match for both the moulded detail on the wagon and the Archer style already in use...

 

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Edited April 18 by BR traction instructor

[Adam]

Looking pretty good - shouldn’t the tiebar have been folded up on itself? That’s certainly normally how Justin does it. At present what I think I can see is the half etched dimples to emboss in order to represent the boltheads (and the tiebars themselves look a bit low).

 

Adam

[BR traction instructor]

...oops!...well spotted. Three of the four production underframes already have the original Bill Bedford fittings removed from the W irons and the Rumney plate style W iron version didn't have them to begin with. Oh well, only a few mins work to remove and refit the tie bars from the prototype.

 

Thankyou 👍

 

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Edited April 18 by BR traction instructor

[BR traction instructor]

Rivet work continues slowly but surely on the prototype diagram 1/161 hopper whilst progress on the four production 1/161 & 1/162 sees them at the rolling underframe stage...

 

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[BR traction instructor]

Wrong thread

 

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Edited 2 hours ago by BR traction instructor