7mm , Blackney, A Glimpse of the Forest

[Alan]

You may be right Heather but I think the lining on the cab front makes the width from radiator to cab side look narrower than it is and of course the model iall one colour at the moment. Measuring the model and photo the distances appear fairly correct, radiator twice the width of radiator edge to cab edge.

 

[Heather Kay]

Measuring the model and photo the distances appear fairly correct

I think the error is the cab sides are flat. They’re supposed to angle in from the door hinge line towards the front panel/scuttle.

Of course, there may be a prototype the kit is based on that I’ve not seen. *shrug*

 

[Osgood]

I'm sure Alan can find evidence in Frank's extensive photo archive of Frank's coal truck having slammed into the front of the Nippy, the cab front of which was subsequently rebuilt at a local garage utilising the radiator from a bigger truck that was being broken for spares.

 

[Alan]

Cab painted a few other things added. Obviously radator lights a front bumber to be painted and windows added plus one or two other things

Sorry about the twig.

 

[AJC]

Hmm, I’m not sure about that cab.

View attachment 219444Thornycroft by Stuart Mitchell, on Flickr

I don’t like to be a downer on things, but the kit cab looks very flat and wide compared to a real one. The Thornycroft radiator is characteristically tall and narrow.

Look at the mudguards - there’s a fairly obvious tapering in of the cab from rear to front (absolutely normal for coach built cabs), on the real thing, absent from the model, which looks oblong in plan rather than trapezoid. That’s one of the big failures of the Coopercraft AEC, too. So whether the other details are right or not, I couldn’t say.

Adam

PS - pretty sure that Thornycrofts sold the vast majority of their chassis with their own cabs so Nippys should all look more or less alike. The ‘unusual cab’ defence is understandable, but it’s a pet peeve: it simply doesn’t apply over 95 percent of the time.

 

[Alan]

Not withstanding the short comings of the kit work ahs progressed a tad more. It's still not stuck together and a fair bit of detailing needs to go on.

 

[Quintus]

Alan, your photos have encouraged me to re start work on my Radley Models AEC flatbed, which has lain undisturbed partly built since I purchased the two remarkable commercials by Goodsyard Models a few years ago.
One thing struck me, it seems no one does bits for 1:43 scale commercials, and most of the available kits are of modern "trucks".
I suppose the market for this sort of thing is tiny, so not suprising. Guess I will have to try and fettle the blobs of whitemetal that are supposed to be sidelights!
Regards
Mike

 

[Alan]

Nearly there afew more details and transfers to do. Brian Wills coal merchant.

 

[Alan]

Now what might I be using this ancint napkin for?

 

[Osgood]

?

 

[Alan]

Wrong!!

 

[Jordan]

Now what might I be using this ancint napkin for?View attachment 222042

A sheet for a flatbed lorry?

 

[Alan]

Nope.

 

[timbowales]

Could it be coal sacks?

 

[Pencarrow]

Wrong!!

Shame!

 

[Alan]

Well done timbowales

 

[Alan]

Slowly getting there.

 

[Dan Randall]

Good concept Alan, but I can’t help thinking the sacks have too coarse a weave and perhaps, ought to be rectangular? How about making the sacks out of Milliput or DAS Clay, with a thin paper wrapper (i.e., cigarette paper), to give you the open top?

If you really fancy using fabric though, how about a lens cleaning cloth, from a spectacle case? You can get them in black too!


Regards

Dan

 

[Quintus]

Or, you could get some of these from Skytrex and save yourself a bit of work!

 

[John57sharp]

Where’s the Fabulous button?