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:
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.
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.
The Kit was originally Jidenco, and the core body is really nicely proportioned and nicely etched. The rest?. 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".
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.
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.
This is how the stripped down model looks:
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.
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.
More as it happens...
Cheers
Flymo
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.
The Kit was originally Jidenco, and the core body is really nicely proportioned and nicely etched. The rest?
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.
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.
This is how the stripped down model looks:
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.
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.
More as it happens...
Cheers
Flymo
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