oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Tim's photo collection remains a priority, but with work pretty much finished on the house and the detritus cleared for the most part out of the workshop I'm able to get in there again.
I also needed to get my eye in once more so started with a Severn Models kit for the Iron Bridge - the one and only over the River Severn. It's only 40mm tall and 70mm from pier to pier. I forgot to photograph the kit unsullied but here it is when I'd just built the base piers. The whole kit is assembled with cyanoacrylate glue which is as it's designed. I could have soldered but I believe that would have been more difficult. This what you start with.
The etch is supplied with a hard board backing so it's almost impossible to damage. It's very fine brass (I forget to measure the thickness) and the etch quality is outstanding. Instructions are superb and an object lesson in the way they should be presented. They'd suit both those of us who like to follow the written word and those who prefer to work from drawings.
With care and a steady hand you end up with this.
Although I don't have a photo of the prototype bridge to hand I believe that it includes all the struts and supporting structure.
If I have a single criticism is that some of the contact areas are so small that it is difficult for the glue to get a proper grip, but if it's to be built to scale I guess that's a situation you have to live with.
Highly recommended for a bit of light relief. I'm looking forward to making the kit of a dolls house to go inside a playroom within a dolls house for Mrs D and there's also the furniture to go with it. For proper model railway use there's quite a few kits of small buildings and tools and a superb electricity pylon.
Brian
I also needed to get my eye in once more so started with a Severn Models kit for the Iron Bridge - the one and only over the River Severn. It's only 40mm tall and 70mm from pier to pier. I forgot to photograph the kit unsullied but here it is when I'd just built the base piers. The whole kit is assembled with cyanoacrylate glue which is as it's designed. I could have soldered but I believe that would have been more difficult. This what you start with.
The etch is supplied with a hard board backing so it's almost impossible to damage. It's very fine brass (I forget to measure the thickness) and the etch quality is outstanding. Instructions are superb and an object lesson in the way they should be presented. They'd suit both those of us who like to follow the written word and those who prefer to work from drawings.
With care and a steady hand you end up with this.
Although I don't have a photo of the prototype bridge to hand I believe that it includes all the struts and supporting structure.
If I have a single criticism is that some of the contact areas are so small that it is difficult for the glue to get a proper grip, but if it's to be built to scale I guess that's a situation you have to live with.
Highly recommended for a bit of light relief. I'm looking forward to making the kit of a dolls house to go inside a playroom within a dolls house for Mrs D and there's also the furniture to go with it. For proper model railway use there's quite a few kits of small buildings and tools and a superb electricity pylon.
Brian
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I remembered to check the etch thickness this time - 0.31 mm.
