7mm , Blackney, A Glimpse of the Forest

Alan

Western Thunderer
My mojo is flagging a bit as I wrestle with doing the handrails on the outside of the Toad, perhaps stupidly I thought the wire that came with the kit was too small a diameter, so I decided to use 0.8mm wire, it looks better but............................ it meant drilling all the brackets, no real problem, but it did make them more fragile and they are rather small. 5 went flying into the carpet and only 3 were found, so made a couple up. the problem with the thicker wire is making the bends in the correct place. The problem with the brackets, the ones that fit in the slots provided, they are fractionally too, big so have to be filed down, which is why they started flying around the room, My fingers have never been over dexterous and with old age and a touch of arthritis dealing with the small and fiddly is increasingly difficult. I suspect when it is finished the side I'm doing at the moment may well look as though there has been some collision damage. Hopefully when I start on the other side I will have learnt some lessons and be able to apply them. At the moment I am taking a break from it for I fear I may do substantial damage to the rest of the model in my frustration
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
Thought I ought to show my rather poor attempt of doing the guard rails, I'm hoping the other side will be neater. As I said in my previous post it does look as if there has been some poorly repaired collision damage. The roof is at the moment just placed on. Still have footboards and lamp irons etc to do.

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Bob

Western Thunderer
Ain't that the truth!
I had to open two copies of WT and flick between the 'right' and 'wrong' pictures for a couple of minutes before I 'saw it'!!
And now, having 'seen it' - I will probably forget and never notice again. Sorry guys, you can take a horse to water etc . . . . .
Well done to those who saw it first time out, I'll never be in that league!
Just catching up on the forum so apologies for late reply. I've boobed on brake gear too but far worse was when I was finishing a wagon late one night and was painting the end door diagonal stripes.....one side done on left side end, flip it over, do the same......oh dear! Why I didn't notice it I'll never know! It was only weeks later after it had been highly commended in a competition that I noticed the error....both stripes were on the left as you looked at either side!
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
I've done the handrails on the other side, they are a bit better but nowhere near perfect. thank goodness this is a layout model, I hope. It did occur to me during my struggles, considering this is a plastic kit why Parkside did not make the handrails and knobs a one piece plastic moulding?
As is obvious the roof is still just plonked on.
Next will be buffers lamp irons and footboards. And then I must get some decals for the area, I'm thinking of Bullo Pill (just down the line, Lydney or Gloucester.brake 1.jpg

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Nick Rogers

Western Thunderer
Hello Alan,

See I missed this! Lovely stuff sir as always. I need to be careful here, the temptation to 7mm is very strong!

Kind regards,

Nick.
 

Nick Rogers

Western Thunderer
Not you as well Nick, I have had to increase the strength of my medication, ALAN :rant:

Haha!

I have resisted well so far, but any potential 'fire sale' of 7mm Pannier tanks might be when the line of defense completely collapses!

Best wishes,

Nick
 

Geoff

Western Thunderer
Haha!

I have resisted well so far, but any potential 'fire sale' of 7mm Pannier tanks might be when the line of defense completely collapses!

Best wishes,

Nick

Then stay away from Rails' website where Lionheart 64/74XX Panniers are available for £273 post paid ;)

Geoff, Nick I'm sorry to have caused you both some stress.

Don't worry Alan everything is under control at the moment. :)

Geoff
 

paulc

Western Thunderer
Hi Alan , couplings , use 3 links . Stay with O gauge its so much easier to see your c---k ups and we all make them . Its also a lot easier to fit DCC and decent sized speakers . Lastly , the handrails on your brake will look a lot better once painted and weathered , oh and you will never go back to that smaller scale and feel happy with it , the bug has bitten .
Cheers Paul
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
Work on the brake van progresses very slowly, however I suddenly realised I'd not posted any photos of the loco that caused the change of direction and scale so I present the Dapol pannier.

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I'm a little worried about weathering it. I hope I make as good a job of my 4mm pannier
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
No Nick, although to make the layout work as I want it to (when it gets built), I will need at least one more.
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
At last painted the hand rails, not brilliant but better than I thought it would look, still possibly needs thinning in places but we will see after weathering etc. Still lamp brackets and footboards to add. I think I've decided n Bullo Pill as the markings, order will be going to CCT.

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I think I'll weather the chassis before adding the footboards otherwise the solebar wheels and the axle boxes will be quite difficult to do.
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
Slowly inching towards the end of this project. Decals supplied by return of post from CCT, have been applied as has the basic weathering on the chassis. Just lamp irons and footboards to go. And more weathering of course.

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You may have noticed that I've started weathering the 16t mineral poking into the picture .
 
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