Pete in Lincs Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 As always, some nice work. Now I'll have to order more popcorn! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 The wow factor continues to increase... F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 That tank is purty durned handsome old bean, superb bracketry and your usual believable accoutrements And now The axle boxes [Mr Burns] Excellent [/Mr Burns] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Good work there Hendie, stating to look very impressive. Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larchiefeng Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 This is what I like about scratch building and yours in particular; the thought process and ingenious methods of seeing something and making it work to suit your needs. Combined with your humorous discourse I really enjoy watching you make anything. Great job so far Hendie! It is both entertaining and informative. Also thanks for the link to the free 3D CAD software. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted April 9, 2016 Author Share Posted April 9, 2016 This is what I like about scratch building and yours in particular; the thought process and ingenious methods of seeing something and making it work to suit your needs. Combined with your humorous discourse I really enjoy watching you make anything. Great job so far Hendie! It is both entertaining and informative. Also thanks for the link to the free 3D CAD software. Thanks very much for the comments. Maybe not so much ingenious as desperation, and in being too tight to go an buy some more materials! How are you getting on with the software ? Let me know if you need any help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 ??? Anything happening here Hendie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 ??? Anything happening here Hendie? hi Bill, yup, things are continuing with the Pullman. I've been working on the second bogie to bring it up to the same build stage as bogie number one but thought that there wasn't much point in posting photo's of that since it was a repetition of stuff I had already posted. I had a go at making the axle boxes from resin - the results weren't great. The master and the mold turned out fine but the parts had such thin walls, the resin just wasn't up for the job. I had visions of it collapsing in the heat and humidity here a few months down the line. So I have now resorted to making each one individually , which is a bit of a pig since I have eight to complete In between bogie forming (hi Pete!) I've been doing some of the other underside stuff - some piping, the tank (shown earlier) and a motor/generator looking thingy. - that alone took three evenings to complete. And now I keep getting shocks every time I touch something after working with the styrene.... enough static to see sparks fly. So to answer your question, yes, but not huge visual progress. I'll try and get a few photo's this weekend before I head off north again (I've got about 3 trips lined up over the next 4 or 5 weeks) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 well, here goes for a small update. The silicon mold turned out fine, capturing all the details as needed (as silicon always does) And the resin part turned out fine. Here I just painted up one of the axle boxes (very roughly) to see what it looked like in situ. It looks okay but because of the small wall thickness, I was afraid that, over time, it may collapse - given all the weight of the chassis and body that will essentially be sitting on these axle boxes. So I'm starting a production line of axle boxes, which is going to take a while but at least they'll be solidf enough to support the weight of the train when finished. The second bogie is now up to the same build state as bogie number one. I spent an awful lot of time this week trying to figure out how to attach the wheels to the bogie, going through 3 or 4 design iterations. This was the best that I came up with. The design incorporates a small piece of tube with some brass rod bent around it in a "U" shape then soldered to the tube. I'm using rod as it has a much greater modulus than wire. I drilled a couple of receiving holes in the channel, then drilled and tapped a 2-56 screw which then screws down onto the brass tube. - I had to add a small portion of styrene sheet inside the channel as there wasn't enough wall thickness on the channel to provide enough depth for tapping the threads. My thoughts behind this design were that the 2 upright rods hold the tube in position, then the 2-56 screw can be adjusted to suit the ride height of the axle boxes/wheels relative to the bogies. A small dab of superglue on the rods once the ride height is established be strong enough to hold everything in the correct position. This is all well and good, but it's going to be a nightmare to retrofit the bogies to accept this design - and because of all the gubbins already on the bogies, I'm not sure how accurate I can get the hole positions. So I am now giving this a few days of mulling over... the other option is to go with the styrene axle boxes to position everything. I end up with a thickness of around 3 mm of styrene and since this is a static model, I think that may be enough to support the carriage when finished. I need a few days to think this all through. Then a couple of evenings were spent making this motor/generator looking thingy. Basically, some brass tube, styrene tube and a couple of bits and bobs including some a piece of scrap runner ... and that's been the sum of my work over the last week or so. As I said, not much visual progress, but getting bogie number two up to this level was important (before I lost my mojo) ...more to come.... eventually... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Ah, so now you can read my mind long distance? It's still looking good. You take your time with the plotting and planning. We can wait. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigglesof266 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Rome wasn't built in a day. We're watching in admiration and we do see the progress. WOW! Just wow! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Very nice scratchin'! I think we're in for the long haul here. Gimmy my popcorn. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted May 8, 2016 Author Share Posted May 8, 2016 Just a very brief update this time around, mainly to prove the project is still ongoing. I've kind of hit a wall over the last few weeks and not having a lather is really starting to hold things up in the queue. (I need a lather to turn down the flanges of the wheels to make them look a bot less like pizza cutters) A couple of mounting brackets were made to hold the pump that I made last time around, then mounted on angle, followed by a quick dry fit. Some pipework was made using styrene rod bent around a heated brass rod, then everything was primed and sprayed black Then I got as far as spraying one of the bogies before I ran out of paint d'oh! It looks like I'll need to concentrate on some of the underhanging stuff just now to keep things moving... and order some more paint! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Doesn't look much like a model Hendie mate Are you sure you aren't hitting us with pics of the real thing? I hear that some of you techy geniuses are very good at this here photo shopping and I know you're a dab hand with a graphics programme And I know you're a superior model whizzkid, this really proves it It's sublime piece of artwork 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousAA72 Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Amazing work Hendie. You have a great eye for detail, and the skill to reproduce that in miniature form, very impressive.....well done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Thought I'd wake this lovely old beastie again  The marsterrr will be back from the 'drome soon and wanting to get started no doubt...  Just saying 😇 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Thanks for the shake Bill, haven't visited this build in good while. Â Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted December 3, 2016 Author Share Posted December 3, 2016 (edited) Jeepers,   a guy can't get peace around here without someone somewhere wanting models built      Well Bill, I finally did summat on the train - not much, but something.  The second bogie got a coat of aircraft interior black, followed by a clear gloss coat. S'weird - the same mix of gloss that went on crap on to the Lysander went on great on the bogie !  Go figure!   The mounting points for the bogies were fitted. - A small nut epoxy glued in behind the brass plate.   Now, when I get a chance, these will be the next parts to be fitted.   It's been so long since I worked on this that I have kind of forgotten where I was. I'm going to have to dig out all the drawings again and go through them to see what's what. I'm looking forward to pulling the automatic cutter out of the box and firing it up, but I need to get a load of drawings done first.  satisfied BIll ???     Edited December 3, 2016 by hendie 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Well if that's what we get its a pretty fine restart    I'm beginning to like epoxy myself, it makes some difficult glueing work out very nicely  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted December 4, 2016 Author Share Posted December 4, 2016 Well, I was wrong - those parts shown above were not the next parts to be fitted. When I opened up my box of Pegasus bits, I came across some "springs" I had made many, many months ago. Those springs were to be fitted to the Gresley's.  As it turned out, I had only made enough springs for one bogie.... easy I thought, I'll just knock up another half dozen springs.....  Of course, I must have put my patented-spring-maker-device in a safe place, because I could not find it. After about half an hour of searching I came across another patented-spring-maker-device in a box of bits. So, out with the stainless wire and another half dozen springs were manufactured to specification. Specification being - make it long then cut it down to length. Like this......   The ends of the springs were ground flat so that the springs would sit upright. The springs then sit down inside the bogie on the three cross members, three per side.   As always with detailing - once in place you can hardly see them and if they were not there, probably no-one would ever notice.   The springs were tacked in place with a drop of CA, then some epoxy glue was dribbled down the inside to provide a more secure fixing.  I'm liking these bogies - certainly looking a bit industrial with all the rivets and bolts and stuff. And now I'm off over to my Lysander thread....  8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 A fine patented spring maker, I might ask you to make springs for me some day Hendie  They look very good in situ and in the spring boxes too  That bogie is a thing of beauty to we engineers  b 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted December 4, 2016 Author Share Posted December 4, 2016 11 minutes ago, perdu said: That bogie is a thing of beauty to we engineers  just wait 'til they have wheels and brakes and stuff all over them ! (and a train sitting on top!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 mmmm  carntardley... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larchiefeng Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 I'm glad to see that you are back on this scratch build of train car. I'm always impressed with your ideas and solutions for making the details on your builds. Good to see this one going again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 I managed to get a little bit more done today though nothing really worth photographing.  I managed a "V" bracket, and a single brake block - with the intention of using them as master for molding - and of course, my silicone had gone orff hadn't it. So now I'm off to order some more.  Photo's will follow when there's something worthwhile to show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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