tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34821922362856203572024-03-14T03:30:07.828+00:00Beer and BuckjumpersFlymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-65201978451280087992017-09-03T09:46:00.001+01:002017-09-03T09:46:15.526+01:00Thought for the day...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When looking for a quartering problem, don't overlook the obvious.<br /><br />Faced
with a pronounced stall on the very first test run after fitting the
DCC chip and uniting the body and the chassis, do check that in putting
the two together, you haven't squeezed the front steps on each side
slightly together, and they are now fouling the front crankpin nut.<br /><br />DAMHIK...<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />Cheers <br />Flymo<br /><br />PS - yes, it's been a busy summer, but now it's time to come back with a little modelling <img alt=":-)" class="smilies" src="https://www.scalefour.org/forum/images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif" title="Smile" /></span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-56106534473469901032017-02-17T22:28:00.003+00:002017-02-17T22:28:49.081+00:00The postman calleth...
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I may be quiet for some time...<br /><br />Cheers<br />Flymo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />And back to the Buckjumper locomotive body build at Missenden... <br /><br />One of the characteristics of the prototype I'm building is the handrail at the front of the locomotive is in three sections, not the more usual single continuous rail. The handrail on the front of the smokebox is separate and circular. It's also quite close to both the edge of the smokebox itself, and the front face of it.<br /><br />I judged the location of the three handrail knobs by eye, and carefully drilled the holes with a 0.4mm drill in a pin-vice. The holes needed a touch with a reamer and then I could fit the Short version of Alan Gibson handrail knobs. However before fitting these, I had to make the handrail itself.<br /><br />If you're forming a circular handrail between your fingers, it can often end up looking kinked or uneven. As this was a separate section, and I didn't have to worry about a straight leg on either side, I could employ something for better effect. So I borrowed a set of GW Models rolling bars from Tony Gee - the great thing about Missenden is someone will *always* have the tool you left at home. I fed in some 0.45 nickel silver wire, and rolled...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I cut it to slightly over length, for later trimming back, slid the three handrail knobs on, and secured them in their holes with the faintest touch of 100 degree solder. I'm quite pleased with the result, shown here balanced on a Missenden Mug (no, not Tim Shackleton...).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So that was how things finished after the very productive weekend. But inspired, I made more progress at home in the next couple of days...<br />Cheers<br />Flymo</span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-26615550370055648432016-10-06T07:22:00.002+01:002016-10-06T08:06:09.937+01:00Missenden Autumn 2016 - down to work...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So after setting the scene, what did I manage to achieve over the weekend on my Buckjumper?<br /><br />I'd
last done a major piece of work on the locomotive at the Missenden
weekend in spring 2015. Since then I've done a little bit of tidying up
on the workbench at home but nothing major. The stage the locomotive
had reached was that I constructed the shorted out wheels for the split
frame chassis, put the chassis together, quartered the wheels, and made
sure it rolled freely as an unpowered chassis. I had put together a
High Level gearbox, reduced in width thanks to the inspiration of Steve
Duckworth in encouraging me to take a piercing saw to such a lovely
piece of engineering. It now sat cleanly in the insulated centre
section of the driving axle.<br /><br />So the first thing to do this
Missenden was to see if all of my efforts had been in vain in my first
attempt at a split chassis. I cut a couple of lengths of electrical
wire and threaded one end through the terminals on the motor, then soldered
the other end to either side of one of the PCB spacers in the chassis.<br /><br />Connecting
an ordinary 12 volt controller borrowed from John Gowers to my short 6
inch length of P4 test track I gently turned the power knob up and to my
amazement the motor ran. It's not conclusive proof that split chassis work for me, as I still see a number of problems with them that need to be
solved, but it certainly surprised me that it worked first time.
Apparently I was very happy for the rest of Friday evening and wouldn't
stop talking about it, according to the other members of the group.<br /><br />This
shows the chassis sitting on the length of track at the top of my
workbench. As I said, the wiring is just a lash up and the more
permanent arrangement will be longer wires to slip the motor inside the
boiler and also the inclusion of a DCC chip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next stage on the chassis was to fit the brake rigging.<br /><br />As
the steel tyred wheels were already in place along with the motor and
gearbox, and although I could have dropped them out I needed them in
place to judge where the brake blocks were going to go, I decided to
forego my usual technique of soldering and resort to superglue. I had
opened out the holes in the brake shoes and in the brake rigging to 0.45
mm to be able to use matching nickel silver wire to form the brake
rigging from one side of the chassis to the other.<br /><br />This whole
process took quite some time for two reasons. Firstly the pre-etched
shape of the brake shoes didn't match the profile of the tyres of the
wheels, so there was quite a lot of filing required to make sure that
when the brake shoes were fitted to the upper mounting wires they were
located in the correct place. The second element was that because the
brake rigging came in separate sections I wanted to make sure that each
section was correct correctly located and soundly fixed in place before
moving onto the next. So it was a case of glue one section, do
something else/go and visit another group/have a cup of coffee whilst
the glue dried and then return to the next.<br /><br />This picture is of
the chassis with almost all the brake rigging in place, apart from the
final length. This turned out to be the most problematic because the
holes at the end of the rigging were over etched and in actual fact were
not holes but merely cup-shaped stubs. This meant there was a little
bit of swearing and much bodging with lace pins (thanks to James Dickie
for the loan thereof) to get it into place whilst the glue dried. It
wasn't entirely successful as when I started working on the locomotive
on Sunday evening after returning home this section fell off due to the
brittleness of the superglue, so I resorted to a slightly chunkier
quantity of 24-hour epoxy resin to put this particular piece back in
place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the chassis done as far as I could, it was onto the body but that is for next timeā¦<br /><br />Cheers,<br /> Flymo</span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-58658192251805544662016-10-05T06:35:00.000+01:002016-10-05T06:35:54.917+01:00The end of summer...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although feeling the heat from the sun today, I'm not sure of the
accuracy of saying such things... It's been a great summer the doing
things with the family, from messing about with motorbikes, and
generally all those other things which mean there is a temporary lull in
the pace of modelling. I still done one or two things over the period
since I last posted, and more of that in future days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However two
things in the last two weekends have inspired me to dust off the
modelling bench and make a serious start on one or two unfinished
models.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first was Scaleforum where I was on a demonstration
desk talking about how to model wagons in the pre-grouping period. I
had some great conversations with visitors over the weekend, not only
about period modelling but also about things as diverse as what types of
couplings to use, what is the best type of suspension, and how best to
do weathering (including a swift hands on demonstration of the use of
washes on the sides of wagons to simulate that lovely Edwardian grime).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of
course, one of the best ways to learn weathering techniques is to
attend Tim Shackleton's weathering course at Missenden Abbey. It was
the Missenden autumn weekend last weekend, and as usual I participated
in the 4 mm loco modelling group. It was a great bunch of people to
spend the weekend with and was led in great humour by Tony Gee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you've never been to Missenden before, here's a few snapshots of what I was working on and how it was done.</span><br />
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was the set up in the loco building room. The light available, both
artificial and natural, in the room was superb and I very much hope
we'll be returning there on future courses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As usual, I had my portable workbench with me. It's
been a great addition to my toolkit, enabling me to take it to
demonstrate at Scaleforum and then on to Missenden. I also had a few
comments over both weekends from people offering to beg, buy, borrow or
steal my beloved toolchest from me. Alas, I'm not letting go of it, and
you can go and find your own for twenty quid in a junk shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'd taken along to separate loco kits, both of which
I'd started at previous Missendens. Both of them are also in the final
stages of completion with the chassis fundamentally builds and the
bodies to different stages of finishing. On the left is a London Road
Models LNWR Samson kit, which really only needs motor rising before it
is finished. On the right is the kit I chose to take further this
weekend, which is a Connoisseur Models GER Buckjumper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'd taken
it to the point where I had a rolling chassis with a motor installed,
and apart completed body that needed detailing. It was this I chose to
work on for the weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'll come back to what I did over the weekend in my next post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cheers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flymo</span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-57977566837681603782016-03-21T07:21:00.002+00:002016-03-21T07:21:58.144+00:00101 Not Out - an S4/EM collaboration...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A little late in posting my acknowledgement of thanks to the organising team and all the demonstrators from the Scalefour Society and the EMGS. What a fantastic day! Everyone that I spoke to was enjoying the atmosphere, the demonstrations and the layouts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More appreciation and some photos of the event here <a href="http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4384&p=44496&hilit=101#p44496" target="_blank">101 Not Out on the Scalefour Forum</a></span><br />
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Last month there were a few of us that turned up at the Cambs, Herts and
Essex Area Group (CHEAG) in Newport for a natter about what modelling
we are currently doing.<br /><br />My good friend Carlos Vasco was
explaining that his modelling time is rather constrained by the need to
get everything out to use the kitchen table and then put everything away
afterwards, as he doesn't have the advantage of a dedicated space that
he can leave projects on. I thought that I'd post about a couple of
solutions to this, before I hope to see him next at January's CHEAG
meeting.<br /><br />As I've mentioned before, I'm fortunate to have the
space to have a converted bureau/writing desk to do my modelling on. If
I want to be tidy, I push everything to the back and close up the
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<br /><br />However it's still quite difficult to fit the "modelling bureau" in the back of the car for my semi-annual trips to<br /><br />Something
that I'd spotted was that the fantasy wargaming chain of Games Workshop
had produced a portable workbench that they intended for gamers to
paint figures on. Now these have been discontinued, but they do come
up from time to time on Ebay. Here is an example of one in an auction:<br /><br /><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GAMES-WORKSHOP-PAINT-STATION-/301733120026?hash=item4640b2081a:g:t0kAAOSwTapV7EiO">http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GAMES-WORKSHOP-PAINT-STATION-/301733120026?hash=item4640b2081a:g:t0kAAOSwTapV7EiO</a><br /><br />They
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<br /><br />I've equipped it with a tufnol soldering area on the
right and a cutting mat at the left hand side. With that is the mount
for a vice. This is for one of the little (but good quality) modeller's
vices sold by Eileen's Emporium. These have the advantage that you can
buy spare bases for the vice unit, so I can swap it from my proper
bench to this portable one.<br /><br />The paint station comes with a
variety of holes drilled for paintbrushes, although I use them for all
sorts of tools. To stop things rolling around and to keep some type of
order, I used a hot glue gun to fasten a cheap stationery tray to the
board, which is useful for popping small parts in whilst working. On
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<br /><br />Two things that I should also mention are recommendations
from the Missenden course notes. One of them is a wooden strip across
the front of the underneath, to hold it square on a table and stop it
sliding around. The other is to cover the underneath with some green
baize to protect any surfaces that it is put on top of.<br /><br />Now the
thing that I mentioned earlier was that these paint stations are no
longer produced, so they can be hard to find. So I was very pleased to
find a new development at this year's Warley show. Whilst speaking to
Grainge & Hodder, who do some of my 5522 etchings for me, I noticed
that they had a laser cut worktray. They had produced it just in time
for Warley, and had already sold several of them.<br /><br />It's now a stock item, and can be found on their website:<br /><br /><a class="postlink" href="http://www.graingeandhodder.co.uk/store/c1/Featured_Products.html">http://www.graingeandhodder.co.uk/store/c1/Featured_Products.html</a><br /><br />Having
examined it, it looks better designed than mine, and is also lighter.
Obviously, it's also possible for you to customise it as you wish. If I
manage to break/lose my original one, I'm sure that I'll buy one of
these as a replacement.<br /><br />I hope that this has given you some thoughts on what to do when space is tight...<br />Cheers<br />FlymoFlymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-81676326473125549272015-12-04T17:56:00.002+00:002015-12-04T17:56:24.492+00:00Exactoscale 1, Swann Morton nil...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Mystery of the day: how come I have just broken two different scalpel blades, on two different knives, just trimming a couple of Exactoscale check rail chairs to fit?<br /><br />I haven't suddenly gained super-human strength or anything, and this is literally the last rail to fit in the entire turnout.<br /><br />Strange...<br /><br />Cheers<br />Flymo</span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-74966528436522989722015-11-15T20:45:00.004+00:002015-11-19T07:32:18.823+00:00A finished hut...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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time wasn't recorded as a challenge, but simply a reflection to myself
of being able to finish things in a reasonable time. My Y14 locomotive
is approaching four years since I started it, and although there is only
the lining and finishing to do, I still can't motivate myself to end
the job...<br /><br />Anyway, superglue was used throughout, I didn't glue
my fingers together at any point, and nothing fell off when it was
washed under the tap with Shiny Sinks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the next thing is to make a small base to place it on.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Unfortunately I'm not going to hit my target of finishing it by Friday night as work has taken me out and away from modelling for three nights this week. Hmm... I have just cut this too fine! It does give me the opportunity to make a proper job of the diorama base though :-)<br /><br />Cheers<br />Flymo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For reasons that may become obvious in a few days, this weekend's project is a non-rolling stock, non-trackwork related one...<br /><br />Prompted
by a certain Mr Brandreth of this parish, on Monday I ordered a kit
from Severn Models. This turned up on Thursday. I missed it lying on
the doormat, which meant that I was only able to chat about it at that
evening's CHEAG meeting, rather than show it.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />The intent that it is assembled with superglue rather
than soldering, so that will be an interesting experiment. Expect stuck
fingers at some point!<br /><br />Cheers<br />Flymo</span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-63377111273499184562015-11-04T07:16:00.004+00:002015-11-04T07:16:50.072+00:00Cracking on...<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A couple of days ago, I wrote:</span><br />
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the real reason for the feeling of shame is that I've just gone to put
out some materials to build a replacement turnout - and I found that I
hadn't unpacked and plugged my soldering iron in since Missenden!"</span><br />
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I haven't needed my soldering iron so far. My first task has been to
salvage and clean up the rails from the ply-and-rivet built turnout that
this new one is replacing.<br /><br />That done, it's down with the template on a piece of board and start on construction:<br /></span><div class="attachcontent">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />This is the first time that I'm building pointwork using
plastic chairs. I've done one of the Exactoscale turnouts in a box
before, and found it quick and easy. So far this seems to be just as
straightforward, and a lot less messy than soldered construction.<br /><br />The
one thing that I really like, and it's quite a childish pleasure, is
that with the detailed plastic chairs, you finish a bit and it already
looks "right". That gives quite a big sense of achievement.<br /><br />I
did discover that I'm dangerously close to running out of Daywat though,
so I've popped an order through this morning for another couple of
bottles, and some ModelStrip whilst I'm at it. That's for all of those
wagons that I still need to restore.<br /><br />Nothing for the next couple
of evenings though, as I have to be out at work events and will have no
chance to do any more modelling. I'm really looking forward to starting
it again though <img alt=":-)" src="http://www.scalefour.org/forum/images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif" title="Smile" /><br /><br />Cheers<br />Flymo</span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-27583197404657616142015-11-01T19:15:00.001+00:002015-11-01T19:15:19.935+00:00Oh the shame!<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How long is it since I last updated this thread with news on my own modelling? I've been busy with work, but not <i><b>that</b></i> busy.<br /><br />There has been an autumn Missenden that came and went. Very enjoyable it was as well, with excellent company, and some very good modelling to be seen on a range of people's projects. It's amazing how many variants of High Level Kits appear in the 4mm group at Missenden!<br /><br />I took along a good couple of boxes worth of ratty wagons. These are ones that either<br /><br />- I built a long time ago, and my standards have now improved<br /><br />- I have carted around with me from house move to house move and have been damaged through being bounced around in boxes<br /><br />- Built or part-built models that can be picked up cheap on Well Known Auction Sites that are a candidate for finishing or stripping down and rebuilding.<br /><br />At Missenden I had mostly the latter, and spent quite a bit of time with a set of Xuron cutters, a sharp scalpel, and some files as I reduced a fair quantity of GWR wagons to their bare bones, ready for rebuilding in a fully sprung and cosmetically detailed way. As the weekend wore on, the pile of plastic shavings around my workbench (these were mostly Coopercraft models) increased substantially.<br /><br />Part of it was also to work on a set of five LNWR ballast wagons. One of them was an original of mine, where I wasn't satisfied with the paint job on it, and the other four are updates to secondhand purchases. I've just finished the lettering of them with the transfers from the original Ratio kits, and these are them sitting on mats whilst the varnish over them dries. I use Testor's Dullcote, which seems to give a super-thin and properly matt finish when I've previously used it.<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />These seem to be drying nicely, and later in the week I'll be starting on the weathering on them.<br /><br />However the real reason for the feeling of shame is that I've just gone to put out some materials to build a replacement turnout - and I found that I hadn't unpacked and plugged my soldering iron in since Missenden!<br /><br />Oh woe is me! I must do better!<br />Cheers<br />Flymo<br /></span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-25082869905639438492015-07-20T07:35:00.001+01:002015-07-20T07:35:06.391+01:00Calf van finished...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And after a very good discussion over on the Scalefour Society Forum about the making and shaping of brass roofs, last night I soldered it into place:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, after a lot of scraping of solder, and cutting and hacking, the
Calf Van was reduced to a minimum. Every time I thought that I had
reached a point of satisfaction, I found another element that I wanted
to remove to improve it.<br /><br />You may have seen the partly rebuilt van
over on MikeH's Scalefour Forum thread about starter wagon kits, where it made a
brief appearance.<br /><br />Now it's finished apart from adding weight and a
roof. I assume that the roof was originally etched brass, and included
with the kit. However like many casting details, this wasn't with it
when I acquired the part-built kit.<br /><br />So tonight I've been out with
ruler and set-square, piercing saw and files, and started cutting out
the roof from a piece of sheet brass.<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />I've started squaring it off, and if I have time tomorrow
I'll measure the arc of the roof and mark it out to size. I've already
pulled the trusty GW Models rolling bars out of storage, and I expect
that the actual rolling of it to shape will be the quickest and simplest
thing to do...<br /><br />Cheers<br />Flymo</span></span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-26500253285494619252015-07-04T08:52:00.001+01:002015-07-04T08:52:11.190+01:00Off again... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, the lead sheet went in, and was left for
half a day for the Araldite to go properly off. Yes, I have vans where
there is a distinct "clunk" from the weight inside moving around as you
pick them up... Then it was on with the roof and this is the result:<br /></span><div class="attachtitle">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As before, the camera exposes something that the naked
eye did not. There was a sliver of flash between the roof and the top
of the side at the far end that is highlighted by the camera.
Fortunately ninety seconds with my finest scalpel blade and it was no
more! How I missed it first time around when assembling the sides I
have no idea.<br /><br />So on to the next thing. I have a succession of
projects tucked away in those small Really Useful Boxes that I have a
real addiction for. The one that has been tempting me for a little
while has been a part-built etched van that I picked up from somewhere
or other. It was basically the completed body, plus underframe built
rigidly and in all honesty not very well. None of the fittings like
axleboxes or coupling hooks were with it.<br /><br />The Kit was originally
Jidenco, and the core body is really nicely proportioned and nicely
etched. The rest? <ahem>. The prototype is described in the
extraordinarily brief and confusing (how would you build this if you
didn't have a good knowledge of how the prototype went together?)
instructions as an LMS Calf Van. It actually looks to be the Midland
Railway Calf Van, which is nicely illustrated on page 5 of Volume 2 of
"An Illustrated History of Midland Wagons".<br /><br />I neglected to take
any pictures of the "before" version, but what I found when comparing it
to the reference photo was that the builder had added extra strapping
fitted in LMS days, the buffers were all wrong, and what was below the
solebars was pretty horrendous and totally unsuitable for P4.<br /><br />So
over the last couple of evenings I've been busy with a slitting disc in a
Dremel and a pair of stout snips, removing most of the underpinnings in
preparation of replacement. And this morning I cranked the soldering
iron up to full to remove the extra strapping, and also the buffers to
replace them with correct Midland pattern ones. The soldering braid
also came out as well, as all of this was fixed with an excess of the
shiny stuff.<br /><br />This is how the stripped down model looks:<br /></ahem></span><div class="attachcontent">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />The next steps will be to clean up the remains of the
solder with a fibreglass brush, and solder up any dodgy joints and fill
in the gaps.<br /><br />I've started collecting the replacement components
to rebuild it in the aforementioned RUB. As usual, it will be sprung
suspension, although whether it's Bill Bedford or my own home-brewed
etched version remains to be seen.<br /><br />More as it happens...<br /><br />Cheers<br />Flymo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's been rather busy on a number of fronts recently. Modelling has
only had the occasional ten minutes when I can pick something up and do
it quickly. To make the most of that, I've been ploughing through a few
things that were part-built and had stalled for some reason.<br /><br />One
of those was a Slaters kit for a Midland ventilated van - I can't
remember the exact terminology. It had stalled because I wanted to
build the fitted version that ran on coach-size wheels, as I quite
fancied the look of the bigger size of spoked wheel as something out of
the ordinary. Progress had halted because I didn't have in stock any
W-irons suitable for the larger size of wheel.<br /><br />So rather than
wait any longer, I checked the reference books and changed the plan to
the diagram that had the same body style but ran on conventional wagon
underpinnings and was through-piped. So in the last week, it has
progressed from a bare plastic body to this:<br /><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />The plastic undergear of the kit is replaced by some Bill
Bedford sprung w-irons, a Bill Bedford brake lever, a v-hanger nicked
from another fret, some old whitemetal brakegear that is still finer
than the plastic version, and some safety loops made up from scrap fret
waste.<br /><br />I'm rather pleased with it at the moment. It needs some
lead sheet placed inside to bring it up to <cross-thread alert="">
my preferred 50g weight for four-wheeled wagons, and then it can take
it's place in quite a lengthy queue for the paint shop.<br /><br />Like James Wells said only a couple of days ago in another place, it's good to be modelling again!<br /><br />Cheers<br />Flymo</cross-thread></span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-39767295727187903552015-04-09T07:46:00.003+01:002015-04-09T07:51:35.802+01:00Sticky business...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sometimes things just don't work out... <br /><br />As
usual, I have three or four different things on the go at the same
time. This mostly explains the slightly random order of progress
displayed on here. I pick one thing up, do a bit, put it down, rinse
and repeat...<br /><br />Over the Easter weekend I had the opportunity to
take out some of the "big toys" that I don't usually have the time or
the space for in the evenings after work. I had a good session of
mouldmaking on the Centricast machine, and took out the spray booth to
make some progress on the Buckjumper.<br /><br />The next stage in the
chassis construction is to paint it black (now try and get that tune out
of your head...) ready for the mounting of the wheels. To spray the
wheels themselves, I masked off the tyres and the axle holes with
Humbrol Maskol. My bottle of this must be over a decade old, yet by
keeping it tightly capped, it's still gloopy and can be easily applied
with a cocktail stick.<br /><br />For the chassis itself, I thought that I
would spray it with the hornblocks still in place as they were held
securely by the CSB wires and I didn't want the faff of taking them
out. On the other hand, if I used Maskol, I'd spend an age picking bits
of rubber out of them. So I reached for the paint box and a roll of
masking tape in it.<br /><br />A quick waft of the spray can - no need to
fire up the airbrush for something this simple - and it was done. I
used Games Workshop Chaos Black as the colour, having heard good things
about the coverage, finish, and its ability to adhere without using a
separate etch primer. After it had dried overnight, I went to remove
the tape and this is where I found a minor disaster...</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span id="goog_1752408986"></span><span id="goog_1752408987"></span>The glue/fixative/tack/adhesive (what is the right name for the stuff that makes Sellotape stick?) had gone all gooey and was now leaving a sticky residue wherever it had touched the model. There was no alternative but to remove each hornblock and clean it and the corresponding guide up carefully with a fibreglass brush. I didn't want to use solvents, as that could have lifted the paint finish and I'd be back to square one. It took some time, but all has now been restored to a good state of order.<br /><br />I bought the masking tape a couple of years ago. I have a recollection that it is either Tamiya, or from Precision Paints. I can't be more precise than that as I wasn't really paying attention to the possible consequences. Suffice to say that I won't be using it again, and I'm very glad that this happened on a plain chassis, and not whilst I was painting or lining a locomotive body!<br /><br />Cheers<br />Flymo</span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-1398910314784126192015-04-06T19:25:00.002+01:002015-04-06T19:25:50.775+01:00Maths...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clearly not my strong point...<br /><br />Having carefully measured the thickness of all six of the driving wheels of my Buckjumper, and produced an average from them. Then taken various readings of the thickness of my standard back-to-back gauge (and this time scribed the number on the outside face of it to avoid doing it next time) to determine what that needed to be. <br /><br />I added them up and started happily cutting down my split axles to length.<br /><br />I was just cutting into the third and complex one for it has two splits to isolate the gearbox when the penny dropped. Locomotives have a wheel on each side...<br /><br />So the axle length should not be 2.46 + 17.78 = 20.24mm<br /><br />It should be 2.46 + 17.78 + 2.46 = 22.70mm<br /><br />Oh well, it's a good job that I made up a batch of spares whilst the glue was out!<br /><br />Cheers<br />Flymo<br /></span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-56488628441318682022015-03-07T10:22:00.002+00:002015-03-07T10:24:06.389+00:00Missenden Spring 2015 is go!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last night saw the clans gathering for a virtually full capacity Railway Modelling Weekend at Missenden Abbey. The maximum capacity of the Abbey is 70 places, and we have 69 attendees signed up. It's a tribute to how popular these courses have become. Note to self - book for the Autumn course as soon as it is available...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After an excellent fish and chip dinner, the main room was filled for the ritual Health and Safety briefing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David Brandreth has just explained to Tim Shackleton how to avoid paper cuts...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm aiming to use the weekend to (nearly) finish a Connoisseur Models GER J65 Buckjumper that I started at Missenden last autumn, and basically haven't touched since. It's being built with CSB suspension, which I'm comfortable with. However it's also going to be my first attempt at split-frame chassis, so watch out for the fun and games!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Until later...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flymo</span><br />
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...is opening an old locomotive kit box to see whether you fancy taking it to Missenden for the weekend, and finding an unused Portescap in there.<br /><br />That's going to be going on Ebay after I've checked that it runs properly, so mentally is offset against the course cost :-)<br /><br />Cheers<br />FlymoFlymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-28358674221202633382015-01-13T07:54:00.001+00:002015-01-13T08:00:29.250+00:00Gathering winter fuu-uuu-ell...<br />
Although it's been quite mild over the last couple of days, the Christmas period had seen us lighting the fire in our living room almost every evening. That usually meant that there was a constant round each morning of restocking the coal scuttle and firewood basket.<br />
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So after a bacon sarnie, I was hard at work lugging logs and coal in from the garage to the house ready for the evening's warmth. Whilst I was doing so, I remembered that my stocks of model coal were running low. Yet here in my hands was an entire new stock...<br />
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A quick rummage in the kitchen produced an assortment of metal colanders with holes of different sizes, and a stout plastic bag. A return trip to the garage produced a hammer!<br />
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Unfortunately we don't have access to Welsh anthracite, to use some proper steam coal, but I selected a lump<br />
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Three different grades of coal, ready for use. The largest will be to finish the weathering on my Great Eastern Coffeepot.</div>
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I've been meaning to finish weathering my own Coffeepot for a while now, and this has given me a kick up the posterior to get on with it. Like CraigW found on his excellent wagon building topic here: <a href="http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4054" target="_blank">(link to Scalefour Forum)</a> I am far too easily distracted!</div>
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<br />Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-74704833090272643212014-12-21T21:29:00.001+00:002014-12-21T21:29:08.921+00:00Reply to Phil :-)<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It seems that I can't post an image in a reply on Blogspot, so I'll have to do it as a separate post...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phil said "If the wagon floors are plastic, bend the wires in to a U shape and push
them through with a soldering iron. When you take the heat away, they
are perfectly fixed in place."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, that was what I used to do :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then I became a little tired of waving a hot soldering iron around in the close vicinity of a detailed and finished plastic or whitemetal wagon, or the up-down-up of trying to fix the two staples at the correct height to make it all work consistently. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I sat down and had a bit of a think, and fired up CorelDraw. The result is this little set of etches that fold up into a bracket that takes the appropriate sized wires at a standardised height and spacing:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The whole sub-assembly is built up off the wagon, soldered together well away from anything that can be damaged, and with ease of working. Then it can be glued/melted/screwed onto the wagon floor: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Epoxy resin is my preferred method of fitting, as it fills the grooves that I drew into the bottom for grip, and goes through the holes to form little "mushrooms" that lock it in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jigs for the loop and mount spacing are etched into the side of the fret (you can see them in the top picture) so that the bending of them from straight wire is consistent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I forgot to write myself a reminder to mix proper epoxy though!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cheers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flymo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-59206440542706250212014-12-21T18:53:00.002+00:002014-12-21T18:53:40.019+00:00Sigh...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I can be so stupid at times. Particularly first thing in the morning before having sufficient coffee...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Important lesson #237.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When doing a batch build of Sprat & Winkle couplings to fasten to a set of five LNWR wagons, pay very careful attention to the tubes in your box of Araldite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Because if you are careful, you won't accidentally mix the five-minute resin with the 24 hour *resin*. If I'd managed to mix the wrong resin with the wrong hardener, it wouldn't be as bad as this. I'm sure that something would have stuck. As it was, having left them like this upside down all day to set...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...then it wouldn't be the case that when I picked the first one up and turned it the right way up, the coupling fell off in a sticky mess!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh well, back to the mixing spoon and the workbench.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happy Christmas!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flymo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-73937602856738167192014-12-07T19:52:00.000+00:002014-12-07T19:52:03.223+00:00Dileberate vandalism<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That's what I felt like after adding an etched brass brake lever to this Ratio kit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not
because it was difficult to make - in fact, nothing could have been
simpler. But the act of replacing the plastic version that had been
provided in the kit, and had at some point lost the handle at the end
showed me just how easy it was to do, and what an improvement in looks
it gave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That's
why I'm musing whether a little "accident" shouldn't befall the
currently intact one that is still on the other side of the wagon...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Probably
not this time, but I do know that in all new builds of LNWR wagons,
I'll be using these etched brass replacements. It's a component from
51L, by the way, and well worth the pennies to keep a few in stock. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Later tonight I may have chance to give it a little self-etch primer and later in the week a waft of colour and weathering...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cheers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flymo</span><br />
Flymohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830364621909116784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3482192236285620357.post-61565072429153686212014-12-02T21:06:00.003+00:002014-12-02T21:06:41.130+00:00Rivet or weld?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In real life I can just about manage to wield a (pop) riveter with dexterity, but the last time that I tried my hand at welding, the results looked just like something that had recently passed through one of the local pigeons. It didn't do much for the door of my Mini either, which fell off shortly afterwards...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Back with modelling, I've been a little more successful in completing the test builds of the 5522 LMS coach bogies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I initially made up the riveted version, using it as the test bed to write the instructions for the kit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Satisfied with that, I have just finished building the welded variant, which can be made from the same kit. The basic differences are to not add a few rivets here, and to put in some welded ribs there...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm very pleased with both of the bogies. I now need to cast a much larger stock of the axleboxes and bolsters, and think about how best to pack them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many thanks to Keith Norgrove for also doing a test build based on my first draft of the instructions, and making many useful suggestions on how to improve them. Any errors or ambiguities that remain are entirely down to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now to think about a test build of an underframe for them to sit beneath...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cheers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flymo</span><br />
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