7mm Yorky D's Küchentisch - From 1 to 3 hp

Weighbridge

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Not quite lanterne rouge but the final item for the weighbridge.

I had been pondering on what to use for the exterior light and eventually knocked one up from.....

A short piece of 3mm clear acrylic rod which I sanded and polished one end to a dome with a manicurist polishing file. 3 washers and a 4mm Alan Gibson crankpin bearing. Painted gunmetal grey and a wash of oxide.

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Steph Dale

Western Thunderer
Those poses look very 'hammy'. I can't work out if they're part of some mad vaudeville act or it's just some obscure inter-war dance craze...

Steph
 

Steph Dale

Western Thunderer
Aah - so what you're saying is that, depending upon who posed for the original scan they could be either the vaudeville act or the dancers. Or even amateur dramatics I suppose. :confused:

Steph
 

JimG

Western Thunderer

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
A bit hammy - they could have been rehearsing for Monty Python's square bashing (1970).

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PMP

Western Thunderer
The Humbrol matt acrylic spray can varnish is also very good, flatter than the wife’s singing.
 
Brougham

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Something else to add to the general clutter of started but unfinished projects.

This time the Parliamentary Trains O scale Single horse Brougham which I picked up at Bristol earlier in the year. Although I have nowhere to use it on a 1968-70 layout....! I suppose a film set would be the answer...:)

The kit itself consists of several thickness of laser cut parts and five A4 pages of detailed (text and photographs) instructions . The dark red parts are 0.8mm thin MDF but the thinner 0.4 and 0.5 mm parts are of a card or a plastic/card mix. I cannot work out what the material is but when bent it holds it's shape. Included in the kit are square; 1, 2 and 3mm round brass tube for the axles and some emery paper - which is a nice touch. In my kit the card was a bit bent so I iron these between two sheets of paper to flatten them.
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Anyway a start was made yesterday and the progress thus far and the parts were superglued apart from the 1.0mm round tube which I soldered into the square tube:

The body is made up of three layers: Inner, outer and panelling.
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simond

Western Thunderer
I rather like that. Would 1930 be too late...? Probably ok in a rural area...

Some rather nice photos on this site, but unfortunately not of a Brougham

Gail Thornton

Best
Simon
 
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