ScottW
Western Thunderer
My intention with this thread is to document the projects going through my workbench. I have classed this as an 'occasional workbench thread' as I'm not the quickest of modellers and it can be a few months before any major progress is made.
To kick things off, here is a Great Northern Railway 9 Ton Open Goods wagon. The body is a 3D print from @Rob R and is superb quality with wonderfully sharp detail. It doesn't come with a floor but this is easily produced from a piece of 40thou Plasticard, suitably scribed to represent floor planks.
The running gear is produced using an etch supplied by the S Scale Society and incorporates a type of springy beam suspension. This set-up involves two rocking W-irons being held horizontally by two spring steel wires at either ends of the W-irons, which themselves are kept under tension by a beam.
Earlier versions of this wagon were shipped out with a single shoe brake acting on one wheel, on one side only. Later wagons were fitted with a hand brake operating on one wheel on both sides, connected by a crossbar where both operating handles were at the same end of the wagon. Being a Scottish modeller almost all my wagons have a single brake acting on one wheel so I thought it would be nice to have a wagon that was slightly different, so I chose to model the later style brake gear representing this by using components from an S Scale Ambis Engineering etch. To say it was a bit fiddley would be an understatement. The V Hangers were cut from waste etch material as the ones supplied by Ambis were quite thin and weren't exactly the same shape.
Completing the build, 3D printed wagon buffers, axleboxes and springs were attached. The S Scale 3D drawings for these were greatfully supplied by @Mike Trice.
After priming the wagon with Halfords Red Oxide Enamel Primer, the body was given a coat of Tamiya Red/Brown acrylic paint (XF-64) and the underframe a coat of a dirty black mix. The decals came from the Old Time Workshop and are 4mm scale, these don't look too bad a fit for S Scale.
Next up on the workbench are some Caledonian Railway wagons......
To kick things off, here is a Great Northern Railway 9 Ton Open Goods wagon. The body is a 3D print from @Rob R and is superb quality with wonderfully sharp detail. It doesn't come with a floor but this is easily produced from a piece of 40thou Plasticard, suitably scribed to represent floor planks.
The running gear is produced using an etch supplied by the S Scale Society and incorporates a type of springy beam suspension. This set-up involves two rocking W-irons being held horizontally by two spring steel wires at either ends of the W-irons, which themselves are kept under tension by a beam.
Earlier versions of this wagon were shipped out with a single shoe brake acting on one wheel, on one side only. Later wagons were fitted with a hand brake operating on one wheel on both sides, connected by a crossbar where both operating handles were at the same end of the wagon. Being a Scottish modeller almost all my wagons have a single brake acting on one wheel so I thought it would be nice to have a wagon that was slightly different, so I chose to model the later style brake gear representing this by using components from an S Scale Ambis Engineering etch. To say it was a bit fiddley would be an understatement. The V Hangers were cut from waste etch material as the ones supplied by Ambis were quite thin and weren't exactly the same shape.
Completing the build, 3D printed wagon buffers, axleboxes and springs were attached. The S Scale 3D drawings for these were greatfully supplied by @Mike Trice.
After priming the wagon with Halfords Red Oxide Enamel Primer, the body was given a coat of Tamiya Red/Brown acrylic paint (XF-64) and the underframe a coat of a dirty black mix. The decals came from the Old Time Workshop and are 4mm scale, these don't look too bad a fit for S Scale.
Next up on the workbench are some Caledonian Railway wagons......
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brown. Wall thickness a scale 2 1/2" (1mm), no floor, printed upright with medium supports under the headstocks and soles, with light supports under the curb rails.
