SI* Modelling

[ScottishRailFanatic]

I would get some modelling done if I could, but every modelling item I own is residing at my grandparents house - one of multiple disadvantages of being a 12-year-old modeller.....

To add to my woes, my parents don’t happen to stockpile boxes, even though delivery amounts are through the roof for our family!

 

Does anybody have some suggestions for how I could get some 4mm scale - or maybe bigger - modelling done without specialist modelling materials?

 

Cheers.

-SRF

[Chrisr40]

9 minutes ago, ScottishRailFanatic said:

I would get some modelling done if I could, but every modelling item I own is residing at my grandparents house - one of multiple disadvantages of being a 12-year-old modeller.....

To add to my woes, my parents don’t happen to stockpile boxes, even though delivery amounts are through the roof for our family!

 

Does anybody have some suggestions for how I could get some 4mm scale - or maybe bigger - modelling done without specialist modelling materials?

 

Cheers.

-SRF

If you have access to a PC and printer, some card and glue / scissors then try the scalescenes or kingsway web sites for sample building kits which are free. Good luck. Chris

[down the sdjr]

Having way too much time on my hands i have made the decision to convert from 00 gauge to EM, i must be mad.

[sharris]

On 04/04/2020 at 21:07, chris p bacon said:

 

South Mills      which was served by a spur off the Bedford To Sandy (Ox-Cam) at Blunham.  I remember going there with my uncle in the mid 60's when very young (5?) and seeing vans in what I later found out was a loop, they were moving but I had no clue about shunting or what a locomotive was!

 

After a weekend with the drawing board, I now have a set of drawings, based on the linked article, a couple of grainy photos and some imagination - turns out to be quite a big bu99er - the facade of the main building pretty much fills a sheet of A3 in what I've estimated is about right for 4mm scale.

 

I guess it won't qualify for a 'cake-box challenge' - unless I bake a very large cake!

 

 

I'll put further progress in my Willington thread.

 

In other news, SWMBO is very much better now.

Edited April 5, 2020 by sharris

[ianmaccormac]

Finally getting around to building some test etches from a few years ago, a LBSCR Craven single in 7mm from 1862. So far have built the etches for the tender, designed and printed the 3D parts for it and designed and printed some of the parts for the loco body. Ongoing, but we seem to have some time on our hands!

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[ianmacc]

On 05/04/2020 at 17:02, Chrisr40 said:

If you have access to a PC and printer, some card and glue / scissors then try the scalescenes or kingsway web sites for sample building kits which are free. Good luck. Chris

Yes and also the Wordsworth model railway site that is entirely free and covers everything from depots down to litter bins and everything in between.

[Rich Papper]

I'm building a 119 out of whatever I can find in the spares box. Might not be the easiest way to make one, but it's fun so far.

 

Stay safe everyone.

Rich

[sharris]

3 hours ago, Rich Papper said:

I'm building a 119 out of whatever I can find in the spares box. Might not be the easiest way to make one, but it's fun so far...

 

 

Whatever it is you found in the spares box, you're doing a good job with it!

[PaulRhB]

I’m still pootling back n forth to work but the lack of social calendar meant I cleared the desk to weather some 1/29th US stock, only splattered the table a bit  

Gondola started out white!

 

 

[Barry Ten]

Added side panels to my P51. These were thin balsa sheets which were wetted and pulled over the formers to take a curve, then pinned down

while the glue dried.

 

I made the wings last summer then handed them over to a mate who's an experienced aeromodeller so he could join and fibreglass skin them. He completed

them a week or two ago but I'll need to wait a few weeks to collect them, for obvious reasons. The wingspan is about 53 inches. 

 

 

Fortunately there's plenty to be getting on with in the meantime!

 

[Vecchio]

Have a Fieseler Storch (2nd WW STOL reconnaissance plane) 60inch to build, lies there since my 60th birthday... in 12 days it is the 61st....  This flies slow enough also for an old guy

 

Too much railway stuff to build. I am still on my 7mm signals, they should be ready by end of this week.  

[chris p bacon]

1 hour ago, Vecchio said:

Have a Fieseler Storch (2nd WW STOL reconnaissance plane) 60inch to build, lies there since my 60th birthday... in 12 days it is the 61st....  This flies slow enough also for an old guy

 

Too much railway stuff to build. I am still on my 7mm signals, they should be ready by end of this week.  

We have one of those nearby at the Shuttleworth collection, it takes off and lands in about 30 feet. Pretty impressive.

[Philou]

Uncle of mine had the real thing - it had a hole cut in the bottom to take a rather large camera. When he acquired it, there was no longer the original camera, but he got a similar one and used it for ground surveys. The aircraft was also used in a couple of French war films (one was shown this weekend).

 

Back on topic - as we've been in confinement 10 days ahead of you in the UK, I've built 5 assorted Parkside wagons and two very old Airfix 16T minerals. Painting is on hold as there are no nearby stockists from whom I can buy suitable rattle can primer coat .

 

Take care,

 

Philip

[Bloodnok]

I built this baseboard:



(This photo is actually from the weekend before last).

Last weekend I got the corner bit cut and mounted (the bit nearest the camera). I would have done more but ... I'm still waiting for the next delivery of wood. It's been ... quite a while ... since I ordered it. Apparently even the timber yard has been subject to panic buying and is on extended delivery schedules.

I really need a name for this layout, so I can create a thread for it. Design a layout, I can do that. Build it ... I'm working on it. Name it? Apparently that's the thing I simply can't do...

[Dagworth]

On the 1st April I cut this strip of plastic

 

And a few more strips 

These become the guides for the sliding door windows

 

Four vehicles worth of doors, the TS has a longer centre saloon so the doors are further apart

 

Door skin added and windows cut, then body window guides and structure

 

Inside body sides of one of the DMS vehicles

 

Exterior with body side skins added and windows cut out, windows still to be filed to final shape

 

A pair of rooves and the TS body sides, almost ready to assemble into a complete car

 

For some reason I didn't take any more progress photos until now but the four vehicle carcasses of a class 315. Tumblehomes and rooves to be rubbed down to shape. The end of the TS is slightly on the hurr but that should be able to be sorted out with a file easily enough. Cab windows will be filed to shape once the body sides are the correct profile so I can better gauge their final position. 

 

I really should start a proper topic of my EMU construction...

 

Andi

 

 

Edited April 9, 2020 by Dagworth

[Ben B]

7 hours ago, Dagworth said:

For some reason I didn't take any more progress photos until now but the four vehicle carcasses of a class 315. Tumblehomes and rooves to be rubbed down to shape. The end of the TS is slightly on the hurr but that should be able to be sorted out with a file easily enough. Cab windows will be filed to shape once the body sides are the correct profile so I can better gauge their final position. 

 

Impressive bit of mass production, but I don't envy how big a filing/sanding job you've got there.  Not tempted to leave it in Bertie Basset/ Liquorice Allsorts livery instead?

[Kris]

I'm still fighting Fusion 360. It's starting to go very slow, maybe I am reaching the limits of it! 2-3000 rivets appears to be taxing the laptop. On the other hand I am winning with the design. No idea how well it will print however! 

 

[47137]

I'm beginning a new layout :-)

 

On first day of the lock-down I ordered up a book - "Building Cameo Layouts" by Iain Rice. Something to give me some fresh ideas. Well, it arrived and I flicked through the pages looking at the track plans and saw one which just seemed to say "perfect, you cannot do better in the space you have".

 

So I ordered up some Streamline - I had to use two of the box shifters and an eBay seller, I guess there has been a bit of panic buying going on? This arrived, was duly quarantined for 72 hours and then unpacked and put together last Sunday.

 

In the space of 10 days the "difficult" end of the hobby room went from this:

 

to this:

 

I've even wired it up enough to run a train!

 

My SI modelling project is to make the buildings and other structures to go on this, using bits and pieces to hand. Then rebuild the layout with a better baseboard and point controls and so on later in the year.

 

Edit: the project has a topic for anyone who is interested, ideas are always welcome.

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/152888-building-a-wee-puggie-line-in-187-scale/

 

- Richard.

 

Edited April 11, 2020 by 47137

[ianmaccormac]

Another day, another bit done!
So, I realised I needed to design and print a lot of parts for the loco before I could finish this, so that's what I have been doing, whilst starting to solder some parts together. Here are the front buffers and bufferbeam, smokebox, smokebox cylinder lubricator, weird thing at the rear of the chimney(anybody know what it might be?), the chimney, clack valves, dome, salter spring, axleboxes, springs, whistle, firebox with backhead, safety valve both inner and outer, the main part of the footplate and outside frames soldered together, the top of the motion plate soldered, then the front splasher, driving splasher, cab front and sidesheets. I have a boiler to roll also and managed to get the brackets to fit the cab front to and a couple of handwheels onto the firebox top as well as the sight glass, regulator handle, and firebox door etc onto the backhead all part of the same print. I have started the chassis also and am trying to get all the soldering sorted before gluing on all the prints. Oh, and a photo of what I am trying to make!
Cheers Ian

 

 

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[chris p bacon]

6 minutes ago, ianmaccormac said:

Another day, another bit done!

 

. Oh, and a photo of what I am trying to make!
Cheers Ian

 

Excellent Ian.  What are you doing about the wheels ? I love the early stuff but in 4mm Markits/Gibsons are quite chunky, having said that you look like you're in 7mm.

[ianmaccormac]

Hi Dave

This is 7mm and Slater wheels for the loco and I was lucky in that there were carriage wheels that fitted for the tender. I have the etches in 4mm also and will try printing a set of parts for that also a bit later. My eyesight makes the 7mm one a bit easier nowadays!I have a set of Mike's single wheels but the 6'8" Gibson ones should also just fit if no suspension on the driven wheel. I'll see! It may be that I make some wheel centres for the 4mm and make it a tender motorised model. Will have to see!

Thanks for the interest!, Cheers Ian

[1722]

 

Put this beauty from Parkside together. Just some weathering to add. 

[Ryde-on-time]

Been working on a couple of things. Wanting to extend my layout a couple of feet, I have built up a Grainge & Hodder baseboard kit but built up into 2 separate boards (one for the front of the layout and one for the back)

 

Have also been working on a couple of Swift Sixteen 16mm  (45mm gauge) War Department Light Railway Wagons -  starting the D bogie wagon and painting the H bogie water tank, just need to find some tranfers

 

 

[ianmaccormac]

Now with a rolled boiler! Looks more like a loco now!

 

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[Phil Mc]

So far while I've been staying at home I've-

 

Turned these-

 

 

Into these-

 

 

Weathered these-

 

 

Fitted passengers and crew, then weathered this-

 

 

And done the same to this-

(which is actually my Dads birthday present for Monday, but I'll have to keep hold of it a while longer !)

 

 

And I've just finished these-

 

 

 

Far more productive (and enjoyable) than just watching TV !!

 

Cheers,

Phil.