SteelAndSoot

Hello all, I do believe this will be the first time I have posted since the great fire of RMweb.

have been kept very busy modelling small locos of whimsy, many I will likely share later.

However, one such creation was finished just this morning.

The unceremonious bodge of a Bachmann junior and Tyco plymouth into a rather ungainly, well-running, loco.

I have had the chassis and body sitting in a drawer for many years now and figured that now would be the time to attempt to make something of it.

It remains a rather unattractive and implausible on account of its wheel size, however, I believe it will look right at home amongst my fleet of 60s and 70s industrials

going to be honest, the whole point of this thread was to document my model making progression for me to look back on, but after the issues with RMweb of recent and not having the time or energy to replace all of the images here, I'm probably just going to call it a day for RMweb. I'll still be hanging around looking at other people's work, but this is where this thread will most likely end. if you would like to see my projects continue I direct you to my hobby twitter account 

 here you can see my current project, but by scrolling back through my media tab you can see the 16MM Sir Handel I have been building while RMweb has been down, and progress on my layout and funicular

I do believe that I have shown a great increase in my modelling capabilities since I started this thread, and I hope to continue with such an upward increase in quality.

It's been fun, and I'm a bit bumbed that its ended here, but unless some miracle happens that restores the files to posts, then I don't believe I will be coming back to here.

I guess that about wraps it up, Take care are farewell, I hope I may see you all again across the internet

slapped together a quick mockup for the funicular winding house/top station. was going to build it from scratch, but i may just print it instead

A bit of a stretch, but I used the cut in half buffers from a pug to form the tool boxes on my NZ64 (1:64) Jigger

Wickham trolley chassis also used

14 hours ago, 33C said:

Well, i started this in anticipation of the competition! Metropolitan A class 4-4-0. Again, Hornby Holden Tank based, of which,not much remains! Hope you like it... 

Changed the wheels for Triang, solid back, Princess wheels with the flanges reduced so can use the original pick-ups, ground away the motor to accept the larger diameter rims. Offered up the plan to get a feel for what goes where and what comes off! New boiler tube (from cake supports!) and sprue and balsa details. Cylinders mounted to accept the shortened rods. Then a "rivetting" evening. Found some brass and white-metal buffers. An original Rovex bogie with B12 bogie wheels fits admirably, secured with a self-tapper into a balsa block under. Then painted Humbrol Satin Red enamel with cream lining with black sharpie inner band. Cooker wire copper piping and piano wire compounding control rods. Hand drawn crests. Finishing touch, a crew and interchangeable destination boards!  

very nice. do you mind if I use this same method of making the chassis for my own Metropolitan build?

Going to call them done. there are a couple small internal things I need to add, mainly dummy motors, but apart from that there is nothing else to do other than source figures. they run well, but don't handle points particularly nicely

And Bruce has had a lick of paint. but it definitely points to just how small Bruce really is

getting there 

Just said to it and am going all in with NZ64 for a while. will finish my current projects still but a lot of future projects may be in this scale

Began printing some static Jiggers from thingiverse and had an idea

Bachmann Wickham trolley chassis is near perfect. wheels are about 0.4mm too small and the wheels are about that same distance too far apart, plus the wheels aren't spoked the same. but its too close to not give it a go, plus, I'm not greatly fussed by accuracy, as long as it looks the part and performs well thats all I want

will print off some better ones tomorrow that have been altered to fit the Wickham chassis, and they will be coupled back to back

will be my first working and motorised NZ64 model, and you bet I am taking it to visit the big kiwi layouts. just picturing this charging past a pair of double heading Ja locos on a huge layout is already making me excited. going to a club, everyone has proper locos, and I whip out the jigger

one two skip a few, ninety nine Funicular\

Not sure if I've talked about this before, but I love the Johnston A class, Bruce. heavily modified in service

and now sits without tanks and a replacement cab from a peckett.

finally got off my arse to make a model of the wee lad

starting with two 1/64 models, one of pannier wing tank condition and one in current condition

got the tank variant printed today and have primed it to be able to see the the areas that need sanding. printed on our Uni's printers

next to a vehicle for size comparison

Just mixed both paints together and got this. then I quickly added some red topped steps because it just felt like something to do with safety by highlighting them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

this is where I am up to now. just need to make the window frames, add some interiors other than just benches, probably add some names and or numbers, and make a small hook underneath for connecting them

Had already decided I wanted a toned down green for the two long before even deciding on their inspirational bases. but didn't really know what to do from there

began cracking on with the rest of the painting while i thought of what I wanted to do

decided I wanted the liver to look nice, but not stand out too much on the diorama. as I wanted the landscape to hold much of the colour, so I made two quick ideas based on some greens I had

Then I finished adding bits to the body and remembered the railway series inspiration. so stuck a face on it and had the name Cirrus given to me as a suggestion. this is due to me wanting to have one named after something in the sky and the other something on the ground. the up and down nature of the Funicular being the reason. one is also always overly happy, and the other is often in a depressive slump, so the up and down of emotions works there too

Then I also remembered I hadn't finished the other one, and cracked on with it

Had the name Cedar suggested to me by a mate, as it also starts with C and is the name of a tree, something embedded into the ground

quickly finished Cedar after having streamlined my technique after making Cirrus

Started Uni a few weeks ago, and it turns out we have a makers space. so I sat in there after my lectures last tuesday and cracked out the base bodies for two Budapest inspired funicular coaches using a pair of Jouef Playcraft HO BR Mk1 bogies

then when I got home I began adding bracing panel things to one. not sure what to call this as I want them to be metal bodied, but imitating a wood design with the bracing

Then I just glued some more bits on, primed it, found out it wasn't smooth, sanded it, and then stuck more bits on

On 02/03/2022 at 17:04, AlfaZagato said:

Are you going to completely scratchbuild it?  Or will you pick up one of the Brawa funicular kits?

sorry it took me a while, couldn't update on here for a couple days as the site wouldn't let me. but I am, and kinda have already, built them from scratch.

I'll just spam out some posts now in order of how I made them, just pretend there is like a days gap between them

Decided to have a go at building the Skarloey funicular

made some plans of stuff, alongside the map. going to have the height of the funicular link with the Skarloey station.

I like to imagine it being much longer, but due to my space constraints I can't do much better than this small example of what it could look like.

got bored and decided to make them both faces

Got the unnamed Beattie well tank. made this face because I was curious as to how it would look considering I can remove the smokebox door, and my god is that flush face an improvement over just tacking a face onto the smokebox door

I then also made a face for the county because I kept referring to it by a... Different name, while I was repairing it

payment didn't go through at the model shop, so I went back and while I was there I managed to get their "broken" display loco for £20. sunbleached on the left side with a dollop of glue on the tender, and it barely ran at all

stripped it all the way down and cleaned it inside and out. replaced a stripped gear, and hey presto, it runs. noisy, but that doesn't bother me

it is by no means perfect, with scuffs and sun bleaching still present. but considering it cost less than the cheapest Hornby 4 wheel wagon I am chuffed to bits

I also got a free magazine, two DvDs, and £45 worth of points for £10

so this Beattie has already proved to be a very good investment

wanted to get another loco and had saved up for a six months to get one. picked out three locos, four of which being the same price

The Jouef 141 ta loco is one that has been in the shop for around ten years, so I have been looking at it since I was a kid.

Peckett is the cheapest and a really good model from everything I have seen

A2/2 cause it looks hot as hell and I really dig Thompson locos. plus I like its history as a class

EFE O2 because of my many childhood visits of the Isle of Wight

and EFE Beattie cause its cute

well aware of the two EFE loco's reputations, but I looked them both over like I did with the other locos, ran them, and they where perfectly lovely locos.

Jouef 141 ta was the first to go. was the most expensive but it had dodgy paint and some pretty shoddy detail, including the ugliest plastic valvegear I have ever seen

Peckett was next, not a huge fan of the peckett look, and I can get one any other time if I want to

so it was down to three

as much as I love the A2/2, I'm not sure it is the best fit for my layout at the minute. at least until it is completed.

after a pretty hefty time of decision making I went for the Beattie

love it so much, although I may change the safety valves

18 hours ago, RedGemAlchemist said:

Your painting has come along in leaps and bounds, it's wonderful to see!

thanks, been practicing for a while and have been trying some of my own techniques that I later learned are actually being used for war gaming

just got a new set of benches built and put in place, and with it the old layout has been binned (as it was pretty ) in favour of a new end to end layout. just spent the morning placing track and buildings around to get an idea of how it will look.

its a heavily used branchline that ferries people from the main station of the trunk route down to a small seaside town, just reaching its tourist boom. thinking of having it on the English boarder with Scotland on the east coast, but we'll see

will likely include an OO9 section along the front, the whole lot will be raised up, with the OO9 line having some kind of gradient, it may even run along the back of the layout.

the foam blocks represent a viaduct, which will form a scenic break to indicate the two terminus of the line, with the center section being left unmodeled due to space constraints. the harbour end will have many houses cluttering the area, far more than there are currently, and the OO9 section will have a period of street running to satiate my tramway needs.

harbour will be relatively small, with it being heavily overworked by the rising amount of loading an unloading necessitating a future expansion that the narrow gauge line will play a major part in.

here is a rough idea of the trackplan, however it will likely change a tad, and it already has

hoping to use this as a chance to demonstrate all that I have learned with making scenery, as even my narrow gauge layout looks dated. this will be my side project while I am at Uni, and I cannot wait to get the trackboards and final pieces of track down

On 10/02/2022 at 02:55, robert17649 said:

Is there a prototype ?

 

sorry it took me a while to respond, as previously stated it has heavy influence from Isaac Watt Boulton, as well as a handful of other early loco rebuilds. I mainly took the idea of a 2-2-2 with a comically large saddle tank from Boulton and ran with it to try and make my own thing. the loco itself isn't based on any real loco, nor is it a real loco I have added parts to. its just a vaguely stephenson looking 2-2-2 with a tank strapped to it

6 hours ago, TonyMay said:

 

Does it move?

it is not motorised, but it freewheels perfectly smoothly. going to make it a tiny makeshift tender, similar to that of the caley pugs, that will hide a tenshodo bogie under it to move it along