Rob P's Silhouette Cameo Cutter Workbench

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Well deserved, I’d say, Rob, a lovely piece. Do you have a prototype photo by any chance?

Of the carriage on an implement wagon? No, but I do have a picture of the parcels van resting on a saw horse. I am reluctant to post it as I am pretty sure that it's copyrighted because it's in the book GNR in Focus
 

michael080

Western Thunderer
Rob,

just noticed that you need two more ropes to secure the body. Right now, only the wheels are secured, but the body might flip over. :cool:

Only noticed after admiring the pictures for 5 minutes.

Michael
 

michael mott

Western Thunderer
Rob what a great subject and presentation, no need for a horse in this case. lovely model. There is a museum in the south of our province called the Remmington Carriage Museum https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!...2ahUKEwiRrs7GuIb0AhXGpZ4KHbziAUEQoip6BAhHEAM#
Sorry about the long link The museum has one of the largest collections in the world, and a fully operational workshop where they make wheels etc. They have a great archive of information.

Michael
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Rob what a great subject and presentation, no need for a horse in this case. lovely model. There is a museum in the south of our province called the Remmington Carriage Museum https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x536f26d814233665:0xdc87c31644fddb70!3m1!7e115!4shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPMDB68ZIjLSVRYSquh7BWvt8s3294Nta32FnPS=w355-h200-k-no!5sremington Carriage museum - Google Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipNIhQ9N8Yi0a0-1T88c8V996sxdpC1PQTpKdkDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRrs7GuIb0AhXGpZ4KHbziAUEQoip6BAhHEAM#
Sorry about the long link The museum has one of the largest collections in the world, and a fully operational workshop where they make wheels etc. They have a great archive of information.

Michael

Thanks Michael, they look to have quite a collection. I have bookmarked it for further perusal.
 

paratom

Western Thunderer
Moving rapidly on I have started on a proper project.

While attending the select meeting for Railart 2015 I met fellow O gauge modeller and artist David Halliwell. While chatting David was telling me about an NER Bogie CCT van that he had scratch built using Kirk parts as a basis (for anyone wishing to have a look it can be found in the Guild gallery Here).

He mentioned a drawing and I asked if I could have a copy which he sent though as promised and when I was looking for a project for the cutter I thought that it offered potential. However while looking through Historic Carriage drawings vol one for the info on the Kirk parcel vans I noticed that there was a section on NER CCTs and not only was there information and a set of drawings for the bogie versions (there are two with different window/vent combinations) but there was a 4 wheeled version which I thought might be a better bet than jumping straight into the bogie van.
Tuesday evening was spent scanning the drawings and resizing them etc. and then yesterday I made a start. and this is where I got to.

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From the drawing the ends look to be the same on all three so if I move on to one of the bogie versions I can re-use the end drawings.
I think you are asking for a tall order here for the Silhouette cutter to cut these shapes accurately and to get a pleasing result. This looks like an etching job if it is to produce a good result. You could laser cut the shapes but then you have the problem of producing the rivets. How will you produce the rivets on the curved sections ? There is product you can buy that is a sheet of differently spaced rivets that can be stuck down but that would be only useful on the straight sections. I model in EM and I have used an American company called Scalehardware.com that produce scale rivets, not cheap but they look fantastic when used and look better than the punched or stuck on ones. Good luck with the project and post the results.
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