7mm The Colonel's Birmingham Bodges. EMU's & now Mk2 coaches.

[Jordan]

I think you're doing a brilliant job with this.

Steve

+ 1.

 

[iploffy]

A bit more progress tonight the head code box is now sorted , the front window has been renewed and the long flatting process had started



I managed to blow a small hole in the side of the head code moulding, I can fix this easily enough though


Next the front, I am still having trouble with the camera angles as it looks like the cab has zanussi brain i.e. the top is larger than it is I was holding it slanted inwards. whoops

Again its a very cruel enlargement but the smoothness is beginning to come, I have just noticed that the centre window frame had not stuck at the bottom, a small job for tomorrow. The roughness at the top of the centre window is a problem wet and dry is going to be used very carefully to try and polish it out, I can't live with it . I am not worried about the front of the head code box itself as this will all be cut out.

Rattle can undercoat makes everything look gobby when in truth it ain't that bad

 

[Dog Star]

Looks like another BB silk purse on the way up.

 

[Colin M]

Great stuff, it's really taking shape. Well worth all the effort!

Colin

 

[Osgood]

Bl** Brigade

 

[iploffy]

Well it looks like this is the last flatting session


I really don't think that repeated flatting will make much more difference the larger area's are basically flat and the under area's won't matter as you won't see them. When the paint has gone off i will have a little scrape at the edges of the windows and I will add the rain strip (in pencil) so it breaks the large area over the windows up into it's two parts.

 

[iploffy]

With added roof guttering in pen


Again it's a rather cruel enlargement no amount of polishing will take out a line which shows through car body undercoat. It looks no where near as rough in the raw than in this close up. the next job is to seal up the windows and open up the head code box then seal it back up. I have scraped the pain residue that has built up between the edge of the window frame and the body so creating the lip again

 

[lancer1027]

Thats coming on a treat Ian

Rob

 

[Dog Star]

Please excuse my ignorance, yet what is, this context, a 'BB'?

A reference to a post on the Skytrex thread where someone likened the result to making a silk purse from a sow's ear... the work is by a member of the Blue Brigade.

 

[iploffy]

CME isn't a member yet we are formalizing his draft papers in the next couple of weeks.

 

[Dog Star]

CME isn't a member yet we are formalizing his draft papers in the next couple of weeks.

You cannot recruit for the South Essex, they march only on paper .

 

[Simon]

I reckon you are capturing the shape very well Ian

Nice to see something really creative (I am comparing it with trackbuilding especially when I say that)

Simon

PS I like the snow scene in the background!

 

[iploffy]

You cannot recruit for the South Essex, they march only on paper .

You have been watching tooooomuch Sharpe

 

[Ressaldar]

looking good Ian, keep going mate, you'll soon be casting better than Round Oak in it's heyday.​

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cheers​

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Mike​

 

[Dog Star]

You have been watching tooooomuch Sharpe

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo have you

 

[Dog Star]

You have been watching tooooomuch Sharpe

NNNNOOOOOOOooooooo, read the books plus the short stories.

 

[iploffy]

What you can read as well

 

[iploffy]

Any way enough of this barking topic lets get back on track

 

[Osgood]

All aboard!

 

[iploffy]

It's a portrait of doggers whoooo whoooo