7mm Rob's Rolling Stock Workbench

[Rob Pulham]

Next up came the complex but visually attractive NER door locking mechanism.
Made from scrap etch and brass rod. Although I didn't take any photos the mechanism does work.

Then I made up the basic body and detailed the ends. I was a bit clumsy and managed to melt one of the end post castings so I nicked one out of one of my kits and I will either get a spare from Jim when life returns to normal or make one from brass bar when I get to building it.

 

[Rob Pulham]

Once the doors were finished the rest of it went together pretty much as Jim intended. With the addition of LG vacuum, steam heat and couplings.













I added a floor from the mount board that the kit comes attached to and I made the roof removable so that the back of the louvres could be blanked off should it be required.

 

[Peter Cross]

I very nice wagon.
I'd blank the louvres as a matter of course.

 

[Rob Pulham]

I very nice wagon.
I'd blank the louvres as a matter of course.

I would if it was mine Peter, but I left it as an option for it's new owner.

 

[Rob Pulham]

Finally, here it is with a coat of paint which is as far as I took it.

 

[Rob Pulham]

Last but not least here is a photo of the perishables van lettered in NER livery This photo is not mine but I have permission to share it.

 

[John Ross]

Hi Rob

Looking good particularly like the roof covering and with the modified doors makes a very interesting conversion of a well known 7mm kit.

 

[Rob Pulham]

Thanks John,

The roof covering is spectacle lens cleaning tissue recycled into roof canvas...

 

[John Ross]

Thanks John,

The roof covering is spectacle lens cleaning tissue recycled into roof canvas...

Hi Rob

Thanks for tip, will give it a try on a future build.
Attached is photo of a survivor located in deepest Aberdeenshire.

 

[Rob Pulham]

Moving swiftly along from the brake standard modifications posted on Mike Trice's LNER Coach thread. You may recall further up this thread my making a stove for the brake van using my Silhouette cutter.

Although I proved it was possible, it was extremely fiddly to assemble and I certainly wouldn't want to be doing a lot of them. It's also a perfect candidate for 3D printing so yesterday morning (after amending the brake standard files) I started to draw up the stove.

It has proved to be my most ambitious and ultimately satisfying design project to date.

My apologies for the image overload but I am delighted at how well it has turned out.

 

[Rob Pulham]

The next part of the stove puzzle proved much easier to draw

 

[Rob Pulham]

Back in post 895 in March last year, I had finally got around to painting my hand crane and match trucks after adding additional tool boxes.
I also made some tools to go with the tool boxes. Consisting of a couple of crow bars, a hammer, and a shovel along with a length of chain.

Fast forward to this year and I decided to enter it into the modelling competition at Guildex. At the beginning of last week I thought that I had better relieve the plain black livery with some lettering. A friend had kindly let me have a second set of "Crane Runner" transfers as you only get one set on the HMRS sheet.

A couple of shots taken out in the sunshine this morning.

As it turned out it was one of three cranes entered in the competition and as I was setting it up I knew that it wasn't going to take first place.

In contrast to mine was an enormous scratch built modern crane, complete with a pair of bogie match trucks and a professional paint job, that made a really good model into a superb model. A worthy winner in my view.

I was pleasantly surprised and pleased that mine took the third place "Commended "spot.