7mm Rob P's Coaching Stock Workbench - Kirk Twin Set Diag 105/125

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Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Hi Martin,

On this build they are all the same but I will have to do a bit of research in my books to confirm whether they had a heavy middle bogie. I know that the 61 footers did but I am not sure with the shorter ones.
 
Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
My recent lathe purchase has started me thinking about making the most of some of my other tools. I used to do quite a bit of woodworking until we converted our garage and I no longer had the room for many of the woodworking tools so I sold them.

What I kept were, chop saw, Router/router table and a linisher. The Router/router table, until a couple of weeks ago was in my loft so not accessible for regular use and my linisher while slightly more accessible by being under my workbench had only seen the light of day once in the last 5 years.

Prompted by getting something out of the loft I decided to get the Router/router table and the linisher out and take them to the other house where I have a dry brick built garage that's alarmed. Fast forward to this weekend and I decided to start making use of them so used the linisher to prepare all the partitions for the twin set. Each one needed to be profiles to fit the vacuum formed Kirk roof and it certainly made a much easier job of the 17 or so partitions plus the coach ends.

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I reckon what I achieved today would have taken at least a couple of weekend's work to achieve filing by hand.
 
Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Although modelling time has been limited recently I have made a little more progress with the twins.

I was a bit remiss in not cutting out for the ducket while I had the sides in the flat but I managed.

We now have one of my silhouette cut duckets fitted. This in fact the second attempt because I was a bit heavy handed with polystyrene cement last weekend and the first effort just melted away - this one is stuck more patiently with limonene.

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I had also prepped some scrap etch for the mounting brackets for the dynamos last weekend and I got those fitted too although from the photo one of them need a minor tweak to it's shape.

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Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
No photos yet but the twins now have roof vents and T door handles. They might have had grab handles too but I need to cut them off the sprue with my piercing saw and I didn't have it with me.
 
Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Having got the Beer wagons finished I don't seem to have much to show for recent modelling session until now.

Last weekend after teaching my car to swim in a flood or two I made some visible progress on the Kirk twins.

Rain strips fitted - very topical, step boards fitted both from Evergreen strip which comes in longer lengths than the equivalent Plastruct and is just long enough for the 51 footers. I am not sure what I will use for the 4 60' corridor coaches I have in the stash.

I also sorted out the articulation between the coaches and made top hat bush to set the centre ride height.

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Now all I need to do ir remember where I put the turnbuckle castings for safe keeping after drilling them out and I can crack on with the remaining underframe detailing.
 
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