Puddlejumper
Western Thunderer
Looks great Rob, properly impressed mate 
Rob P's Silhouette Cameo Cutter Workbench
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Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
That makes two of usLooks great Rob, properly impressed mate
It couldn't have worked better than it has.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
Hi Graham,
It sure will - it won't make any further progress from what you see here because all the supplies needed are up north and we won't be going up again before we see you.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
Although I haven't done any more construction I took advantage of an early finish to get a coat of primer on the pipe wagon so I squirted a bit at the CCT to make it a bit better to photograph. The coat is far from perfect because I still have some detail to add and will be re-priming it once I have it completed.
I also made a start on painting the inside a dark colour so that you can't see white from the inside once the windows are in.
I also made a start on painting the inside a dark colour so that you can't see white from the inside once the windows are in.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
I am still beavering away with the CCT having started looking at the underframe. While doing that from studying the drawing and the photo in Historic Carriage drawings (the only photo that I have found so far), I noticed that the wheels seem to have a different type of rim. There are similar wheel sets in various photos in North Eastern Railway Brake Vans by Ian Sadler (whom I was stood chatting to at Wakefield show last year but didn't know who he was until he had gone and a friend told me who he was). They are described as "cushioned"
The wheels are also 10 spoke which I don't have in stock but I will get some from Slaters if my local model shop doesn't keep them.
Anyway back to the "cushioned" wheels I reasoned that I could make some in the same manner that I have done balance weights - plasticard fronts backed by milliput. In the past I would have used my olfa circle cutter but it seemed much easier to have a go at drawing them and then cutting on the Cameo. 10 minutes later they were cutting.
What isn't visible on the the wider rimmed ones is score marks for bolt heads.
The idea of the two sizes is that two or three layers of the narrow rings will sit inside the rim of the wheel to bring it level with the front face and the wider ring with the bolt heads will overlap onto the wheel face slightly. In theory I suspect that it should be recessed into the face of the rim but I haven't the means to do it and the rings are only 9 thou thick.
The wheels are also 10 spoke which I don't have in stock but I will get some from Slaters if my local model shop doesn't keep them.
Anyway back to the "cushioned" wheels I reasoned that I could make some in the same manner that I have done balance weights - plasticard fronts backed by milliput. In the past I would have used my olfa circle cutter but it seemed much easier to have a go at drawing them and then cutting on the Cameo. 10 minutes later they were cutting.
What isn't visible on the the wider rimmed ones is score marks for bolt heads.
The idea of the two sizes is that two or three layers of the narrow rings will sit inside the rim of the wheel to bring it level with the front face and the wider ring with the bolt heads will overlap onto the wheel face slightly. In theory I suspect that it should be recessed into the face of the rim but I haven't the means to do it and the rings are only 9 thou thick.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
3 weeks away on holiday and then a busy week at work didn't left much in the way of inclination to do much in the way of modelling last week.
That changed this weekend when I made a bit more progress on the NER CCT, adding more end details and the basic underframe.
I even manage to made the door locking mechanism work on one end - the other end must have got a drop of glue in there somewhere
I did attempt to cut some springs and hangers but the jury is still out as to whether they are succesful or not.
Worst case I can see me doing a crash session in 3D modelling to see if I can get some printed.
That changed this weekend when I made a bit more progress on the NER CCT, adding more end details and the basic underframe.
I even manage to made the door locking mechanism work on one end - the other end must have got a drop of glue in there somewhere
I did attempt to cut some springs and hangers but the jury is still out as to whether they are succesful or not.
Worst case I can see me doing a crash session in 3D modelling to see if I can get some printed.
David Varley
Western Thunderer
How cool is all this malarkey - whooosh!
Maybe it's time for a new term? Scratch-cutting? Hardly original but hey
How about scrutting?
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
Before I went on my holiday I drew up and cut out parts for an early NBR 8 ton Van using this drawing as the basis, I believe that it's one of the Kenneth Wherret drawings that used to be found in the Model Railway News in years gone by.
Sadly the weekend before last I forgot to take the main parts with me so I continued to work on the NER CCT as previously posted.
On Friday I made sure that I packed the box with the parts in and managed to spend time getting the sides and ends prepared to go together over the weekend.
The sides and ends are made up from 3 layers of 20thou with the hinges and plates cut from 10 thou. The beading is Plastruct 0.8mm half round rod.
Before getting the Cameo cutter I had planned to scratch build one or two of these and I had even got as far as marking out a sheet of 1mm styrene for the sides and ends. With the aid the aid of the Cameo I now have a pair of vans in the same state as the photos above from two afternoons and evenings work.
Sadly the weekend before last I forgot to take the main parts with me so I continued to work on the NER CCT as previously posted.
On Friday I made sure that I packed the box with the parts in and managed to spend time getting the sides and ends prepared to go together over the weekend.
The sides and ends are made up from 3 layers of 20thou with the hinges and plates cut from 10 thou. The beading is Plastruct 0.8mm half round rod.
Before getting the Cameo cutter I had planned to scratch build one or two of these and I had even got as far as marking out a sheet of 1mm styrene for the sides and ends. With the aid the aid of the Cameo I now have a pair of vans in the same state as the photos above from two afternoons and evenings work.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
Thanks Graham,
Buffers are in stock from Haywood Railway and I bought quite a few sets of NBR axleguards/boxes etc. from Parkside earlier in the year when I built the dropside wagon. - At £1.30 per sprue it would have been rude not to
I have just checked PD's website and the kits that you mention can be found here
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
Does help if one selects the range for 7mm scale...
Kits which could be sprue-donors are PS02 and PS06.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
I suspect that the underframe gubbins are the same in both kits.....
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
There is a thread on RMweb called "it's grim up North" well last weekend it was.....at least in Bishop Auckland.
At about 10am Chris said look out the window I did and it was snowing, then came the famous last words from me, don't worry it won't stick....
By mid afternoon this was the view....
And as the light was failing
All told a good 5" inches fell.
So that meant that we had to stay in and play.
By the time I was ready to leave on Sunday here's where I had got to with the NBR Jubilee vans.
Lastly I cut and curved a couple of roofs - one I scored with my Olfa cutter similar to the NER CCT roof that I did on the Silhouette the other I just curved with the rounded end of a Swan Morton knife handle.
The second van isn't quite on it's wheels yet but it's not far behind.
At about 10am Chris said look out the window I did and it was snowing, then came the famous last words from me, don't worry it won't stick....
By mid afternoon this was the view....
And as the light was failing
All told a good 5" inches fell.
So that meant that we had to stay in and play.
By the time I was ready to leave on Sunday here's where I had got to with the NBR Jubilee vans.
Lastly I cut and curved a couple of roofs - one I scored with my Olfa cutter similar to the NER CCT roof that I did on the Silhouette the other I just curved with the rounded end of a Swan Morton knife handle.
The second van isn't quite on it's wheels yet but it's not far behind.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
The silhouette bug has well and truly bitten....
Whilst looking through LNER wagons volume 3 for more details on the Jubilee vans that I built last week I realised that the match-board sided version is actually the same van and more importantly with the same hinge and strap details.
In true Blue Peter fashion, here's one that I built earlier. My example being the Avery Tool van variant by Dragon Models. - Dragon also do the standard match-board sided van too (under the Celtic Connection banner).
Seeing as I had Parkside NBR underframe goodies in stock, it seemed rude not to. So a quick change of the art work later and I had sides and ends drawn for a couple of examples. Then came four hours of cutting out. and a few hours of construction over the weekend giving this as the result.
I now need to crack on and get them all detailed and up on their wheels but that will be the other side of Christmas now and may well depend on what goodies Santa brings. Oh the easily distracted......
Whilst looking through LNER wagons volume 3 for more details on the Jubilee vans that I built last week I realised that the match-board sided version is actually the same van and more importantly with the same hinge and strap details.
In true Blue Peter fashion, here's one that I built earlier. My example being the Avery Tool van variant by Dragon Models. - Dragon also do the standard match-board sided van too (under the Celtic Connection banner).
Seeing as I had Parkside NBR underframe goodies in stock, it seemed rude not to. So a quick change of the art work later and I had sides and ends drawn for a couple of examples. Then came four hours of cutting out. and a few hours of construction over the weekend giving this as the result.
I now need to crack on and get them all detailed and up on their wheels but that will be the other side of Christmas now and may well depend on what goodies Santa brings. Oh the easily distracted......
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
The weekend was probably the most productive that I have had in modelling terms for months or so it seemed.
With the success of the matchboard Jubilee vans I decided to have a go at assembling the body for an NBR (another NBR subject I know...... and I don't even model the NBR). Bogie CCT.
I had noticed this while checking out prospective subjects in Historic carriage drawings volume 3 (the blue NPCS book page 57) and what appealed is that they made it to BR days and they got down at least as far as Bridlington (the photo accompanying the drawing was taken at Bridlington in 1953).
I have had a go at this primarily as a prelude to having a go at a coach.
And finally to to give an idea how big it actually is - this is it with the Jubilee van sat on top of it.
With the success of the matchboard Jubilee vans I decided to have a go at assembling the body for an NBR (another NBR subject I know...... and I don't even model the NBR). Bogie CCT.
I had noticed this while checking out prospective subjects in Historic carriage drawings volume 3 (the blue NPCS book page 57) and what appealed is that they made it to BR days and they got down at least as far as Bridlington (the photo accompanying the drawing was taken at Bridlington in 1953).
I have had a go at this primarily as a prelude to having a go at a coach.
And finally to to give an idea how big it actually is - this is it with the Jubilee van sat on top of it.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
While up north last week I managed the best part of four days and evenings at the bench which saw much progress on the Jubilee vans. So much so that I thought that I had the panelled pair complete apart from adding weight and sticking the roof's down. Hmmm, another look at the photos showed the lack of handrails across the ends...... The pair of matchboard versions are well on their way too but one still needs the end posts cutting and adding along with yet more bolt heads that I missed on the first pass.
Despite using the cutter and Parkside underframe details I reckon that each van will have more than 20 hours of assembly by the time they are all ready for the paint shop.
I am still struggling to take decent photos of the white plastic but her's where we are up to.
The observant amongst you will have noticed the LNER plate peeking out from under the body - I had a tinker to see if I could draw on up and cut it successfully - reasoning that I could always get some etched from the art work if that didn't work.
Since cutting those shown on 10 thou I tried again on 20 thou which gave much better results although in the final cut I removed the small lettering in the middle just keeping LNER and the number - I am still struggling to get a decent photo so you may have to wait until they are on one of the other vans.
Despite using the cutter and Parkside underframe details I reckon that each van will have more than 20 hours of assembly by the time they are all ready for the paint shop.
I am still struggling to take decent photos of the white plastic but her's where we are up to.
The observant amongst you will have noticed the LNER plate peeking out from under the body - I had a tinker to see if I could draw on up and cut it successfully - reasoning that I could always get some etched from the art work if that didn't work.
Since cutting those shown on 10 thou I tried again on 20 thou which gave much better results although in the final cut I removed the small lettering in the middle just keeping LNER and the number - I am still struggling to get a decent photo so you may have to wait until they are on one of the other vans.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
Aside from adding some lead to the two matchboard vans and gluing the roofs on the Jubilee vans are finished and ready for the paint shop.
Next is the challenge of producing the "Return to Singer" transfers which I also have a plan to do them on the Silhouette.
Next is the challenge of producing the "Return to Singer" transfers which I also have a plan to do them on the Silhouette.
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
are they the Four TOPS? 