Jump to content
 

Magdalen Bridge

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    12

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Blog Entries posted by Magdalen Bridge

  1. Magdalen Bridge
    Side on, the Cooper Craft kit looked all right (apart from the poor paint job)...

     
    But inside, a plank had vanished!

     
    The problem is excess molding on the solebar, combined with a thick floor. 
     
    Sally the horse was all for making a new floor, but that sounded too much like hard work... so instead I filed the solebar. Sally was not impressed...
     
    This resulted in a 3 1/2 plank wagon...
     
    ... which is awaiting its transfers. Meanwhile, the backlog mounts...
     
    And looks like the diagram of the Evolution of Man.
  2. Magdalen Bridge
    As an experiment, I thought I would try to convert a Cooper Craft 4-planker into a Lot 441 4-planker, of 1888 vintage. First, it needed grease boxes...

     
    This evening's task was to sort the transfers. To try and keep things central, I worked in from either edge...

     
    With mixed successes. Naturally, I blame the age of the transfers...

     
    But I had a model with oil boxes in need of transfers, and no idea of what number to use... until I found a cheat...

     
    This photo of Calne station, probably c.1903 (Open source, from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Calne_station_(46631306172).jpg). The conveniently placed log meant I was free to assume 65815 had oil boxes...

     
    And before long, things started to stack up...

     
    Things are a bit wonky, and components remain to be added, but as a first go with transfers, I can live with the errors. A modeler's licence, and all that...

     
×
×
  • Create New...