Jump to content
 

john new

RMweb Gold
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4,378

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Blog Entries posted by john new

  1. john new

    Painting some Dapol/Kitmaster workmen.

    By john new,


    Figure painting
    It has been a long while since I last painted a batch of the Dapol (ex Airfix) figure sets. Started tonight, so far a base coat of 50:50 PVA followed by a coat of watercolour black as a wash to fill in the shadows. First time attempting this black coat base after seeing it described several times.
     
    They will need some more touching in before I add the over colours, again with watercolours. The joys(?) to come will be the drilling and fitting of pins to fix them rather than the supplied lumpy base. Another technique not previously tried.

     
  2. john new

    Valve gear fault fixed - a Bachman Hall

    By john new,


    Repairing Bachmann locos.
    Back at the club (WMRA) spring open day I discovered that on my Bachmann Hall (6969 Wraysbury Hall) the R/h side connecting rod had somehow become disconnected at the wheel end. I finally got around to assessing the fault last week, discovered the circlip that should have been holding it on, wasn't there. I ordered a few replacement circlips from the Bachmann spares service which then arrived promptly. On the same order I added three sets of Manor tender wheels for another project. The service from Bachmann was very good.
     
    Fixed the problem this evening, I only lost one of the tiny circlips. The trick or dodge of doing the fix inside a clear plastic bag helped minimise the losses as, despite several attempts to fix it not succeeding, only the one clip which pinged off managed to find and escape via the open end of the bag. The rest remaining trapped in the bag ready for another go. Not the easiest task to do, and it took many attempts to get the clip into place, but a couple of coffee stirrers cut to a wedge point eventually helped push the clip into position.  Small pliers then nipping it shut.
     
    Only thing left to do, is put it onto the rolling road to test the fix. Won't be tonight as too many other things temporarily stored on the working area but on the to do list.
×
×
  • Create New...