Halvarras Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Bet you had to go and lie down in a darkened room after getting all those tiny end bits made and attached 😑! Excellent progress, looking good! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Darius43 Posted February 29 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 29 Primer on. Cheers Darius 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Darius43 Posted February 29 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 29 Chassis painted and reunited with body. Now need to build the second MBS to the same level of completion. Cheers Darius 25 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHC Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 What has happened it’s a week later and no update. No doubt you have got on with another MTK kit and haven’t told us yet. No worries looking forward to your next update. Keith 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 8 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8 (edited) Hi Keith. I had a holiday break in North Devon last weekend and am still in “holiday mode”. I’ll get back into it over the coming weekend. Cheers Darius Edited March 8 by Darius43 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8 2 hours ago, Darius43 said: Hi Keith. I had a holiday break in North Devon last weekend and am still in “holiday mode”. I’ll get back into it over the coming weekend. Cheers Darius Yes, the Guinness Book of Records have lost interest too!! Mike. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Darius43 Posted April 10 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 10 Did some painting yesterday. Cheers Darius 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Darius43 Posted April 11 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 11 Details added and painted. Homemade decals applied. Glazing fitted. Cheers Darius 29 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted April 11 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 11 Nice work Darius. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 30368 Posted April 11 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 11 14 minutes ago, Re6/6 said: Nice work Darius. Agree, really interesting prototype Darius. A very long time ago I was a member of the Southern House Rolling Stock Development Team. Within the team there was a small group of people, no more than two, who spent their time working out how they could meet operational and maintenence needs by, we would now call it, repurposing, old rolling stock. This would be one of their efforts I suspect. Once the drawings had been prepared it would be off, usually to Stewarts Lane Depot, where the work would be carried out in the old repair shop. I became involved, as part of my training, in the early 1970s. At the time, the SR CM&EE team were very independent of BRB Derby and probably did more design and development in house than any of the other regions. Kind regards, 30368 3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted April 11 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 11 I like th blue door 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Darius43 Posted April 11 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 11 Interior constructed using plasticard - timber joints scribed on. Cheers Darius 19 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Buckner Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Reliably among the most interesting threads on the forum 1 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 11 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 11 1 hour ago, Mike Buckner said: Reliably among the most interesting threads on the forum Definitely worth a Blue Peter badge! Mike. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 12 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12 Made a start on the other motor coach. Cheers Darius 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 13 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13 Basic body and chassis construction completed. Cheers Darius 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 14 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14 Chassis completed. Cheers Darius 16 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hal Nail Posted April 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 14 On 11/04/2024 at 17:35, Darius43 said: Interior constructed using plasticard - timber joints scribed on. What do you scribe with and how do you keep it all even? I had a go at turning a SR even plank into an uneven one but found it hard to scribe exactly in the middle of planks and it looked a mess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 14 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14 For scribing I use an Olfa P-Cutter. For flat surfaces I use a steel rule as a guide and for curved surfaces - such as coach roofs - I tape plasticard to the surface to act as a guide. Cheers Darius 12 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Darius43 Posted April 14 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 14 Buffer beams fitted and roof detailing commenced. Cheers Darius 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Darius43 Posted April 20 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 20 Roof conduits etc. added and face applied. Cheers Darius 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Darius43 Posted April 20 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 20 Primer on. Cheers Darius 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Another lovely job, and a change from the usual BR green and blue (one door excepted!) May I enquire as to your reasoning for completing the two vehicles separately in this way? Back in 1997/8 I converted two Hornby Class 29s into Class 22s using A1 Models conversion kits but I deviated considerably from the instructions (including using chassis from Lima South African overhead electrics) - I knew 'doing it my way' was going to create a lot of extra work and that if I did them one at a time the second one may never get finished as I couldn't face doing all that again, so they were worked on side-by-side. This had the advantage of batch-producing the Plastruct and Plasticard parts (which you may have done here of course) so although they took around 9 months to finish I felt doing them 'in parallel' rather than 'in series', as it were, was both quicker and easier overall. In my case one was finished in green and the other in blue, so it didn't matter too much if the surface finishes differed slightly, but with a 2-car unit using the method you've employed with this project I'd be concerned that the surface finishes may not match - due to slightly different paint/varnish thinning, different atmospheric conditions, etc. You do seem to achieve a consistent finish with your MTK output so I'm sure it will be fine, but I'm still still curious about your 'one then the other' approach to this build - personally I may have found my motivation for Round 2 somewhat lacking 😊! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 20 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 20 I have to admit that I am inconsistent with my approach to building these kits. It is definitely more efficient to complete identical tasks on both/all coaches side-by-side, however I find some of the tasks more fun than the others. Roof detailing is a bit of a chore so it is more motivating (i.e. “fun”) for me to move on to the priming and painting stage of one coach than to get the second coach up to speed. That way the grunt work is evened out along with the more enjoyable tasks. In this instance I did make both plasticard rear walls for the coaches at the same time. The olive paint I am using for these coaches is mixed by Phoenix so I’m confident that the finishes will match. Cheers Darius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hal Nail Posted April 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21 (edited) Interesting I was going to ask the same thing. I generally start identical tasks together but not unusual for me to get bored and one ends up lagging behind. Sometimes I do refine a technique or spot a slight error and then the mental dilemma is whether to go back and improve the first one! Edited April 21 by Hal Nail 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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