David Geen tank
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How big are they?So, I’m intending the lettering to be fairly minimal, but I have made ‘cast’ plates before (for other tar tanks), from 10 thou’ with ‘letters’ fretted from 5 thou’ strip. The aim is the illusion of legibility. I’ll add a rim from fuse wire later. This is the sort of madness talking to Geoff Kent leads to.
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To save your eyes, I’ve invented a subsidiary of the Bishops Lydyeard quarry owners, W.J. King - they of half the preserved steam waggons in the realm it seems - who, in my parallel reality, operated an asphalt division from Exeter.
Still haven’t added the steam inlet fittings…
Adam
How big are they?
These new-fangled lasers can produce quite good results with small text, these are 7mm scale:
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Still experimenting with materials, settings & painting techniques. Not entirely happy yet.
Pete.
Thanks for this, it gives me some confidence to have a go, I’ve built, I mean attempted a couple of underframes from Justin, they’re getting there…
John
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you - dont you try this and roll the barrel, that way lies sore fingers and a messed up tank.Take it slowly, it's the only way. The clasp-braked ones are generally easier than the push rod/Morton ones I find, but all the bits fit and that means that if they don't it's the builder's fault. And yes, this builder has screwed up on that front... I knocked up the internal structure for the tank at lunchtime, so maybe, once the kids are in bed, I can take a deep breath and roll?
Adam
Well done, Adam.
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Cheers
Jan
Which kit is that then? Looks like you made a good job of it though!I just hope that the effort is worth it! The end stays ought not to be too difficult, but it’s not a great starting point to be brutally honest.
Despite that it’s far from the worst kit I’ve built. That's this one (because pretty much all the underframe and brakegear detail was unusable and there was no positive location for anything - the unfitted version of the same kit would actually be fine, well, barring the shrunken whitemetal headstocks - the fitted brakegear is very complicated and very badly rendered, what you see here was either scratchbuilt or borrowed from spare bits from Rumney models. It took absolutely ages):
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Adam
Which kit is that then? Looks like you made a good job of it though!