Yorky D's Küchentisch - Purists look away now.....

[Yorkshire Dave]

Not quite lanterne rouge but the final item for the weighbridge.

I had been pondering on what to use for the exterior light and eventually knocked one up from.....

A short piece of 3mm clear acrylic rod which I sanded and polished one end to a dome with a manicurist polishing file. 3 washers and a 4mm Alan Gibson crankpin bearing. Painted gunmetal grey and a wash of oxide.

 

[BrushType4]

Does it work ?

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Does it work ?

Only in the mind.

 

[mickoo]

Only in the mind.

I suffer from that too.....oops wrong forum

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Purchased these at Telford.

WWI military loco crew. These are destined for the Minerva Kerr Stuart which I shall be finishing as ROD 608.

Here they have been primed and the loco is behind them.


And after the base coats and washes (Vallejo acrylics). There's further work to do.

 

[Steph Dale]

Those poses look very 'hammy'. I can't work out if they're part of some mad vaudeville act or it's just some obscure inter-war dance craze...

Steph

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Forgot mention these are from Modelu.

 

[Steph Dale]

Aah - so what you're saying is that, depending upon who posed for the original scan they could be either the vaudeville act or the dancers. Or even amateur dramatics I suppose.

Steph

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Those poses look very 'hammy'. I can't work out if they're part of some mad vaudeville act

They did try and rehearse the Egyptian Sand Dance

 

[Dan Randall]

They did try and rehearse the Egyptian Sand Dance
View attachment 91717

They'll need to watch this a few times then....

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&s...IwAHoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0XSWI2ZLSNgtGu1jXk0xCy


Regards

Dan

 

[JimG]

They'll need to watch this a few times then....

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk&ved=2ahUKEwjm2fievaDdAhUJOsAKHWpyBSUQtwIwAHoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0XSWI2ZLSNgtGu1jXk0xCy

Surely more like this one

from about 50" in.

Jim.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

A bit hammy - they could have been rehearsing for Monty Python's square bashing (1970).

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

One of the figures in t'cab - needs a coat of matt varnish though.

 

[michael080]

One of the figures in t'cab - needs a coat of matt varnish though.

Dave, you may want to try the acrylic "AK Ultra Matte Varnish". In my eyes the "mattest" varnish available. It looks like a mineral surface after drying.

Michael

 

[PMP]

The Humbrol matt acrylic spray can varnish is also very good, flatter than the wife’s singing.

 

[simond]

Brave man...

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Dave, you may want to try the acrylic "AK Ultra Matte Varnish". In my eyes the "mattest" varnish available. It looks like a mineral surface after drying.

Some AK Ultra Matte Varnish arrived this week and a coat has been applied to the driver - a vast improvement.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Something else to add to the general clutter of started but unfinished projects.

This time the Parliamentary Trains O scale Single horse Brougham which I picked up at Bristol earlier in the year. Although I have nowhere to use it on a 1968-70 layout....! I suppose a film set would be the answer...

The kit itself consists of several thickness of laser cut parts and five A4 pages of detailed (text and photographs) instructions . The dark red parts are 0.8mm thin MDF but the thinner 0.4 and 0.5 mm parts are of a card or a plastic/card mix. I cannot work out what the material is but when bent it holds it's shape. Included in the kit are square; 1, 2 and 3mm round brass tube for the axles and some emery paper - which is a nice touch. In my kit the card was a bit bent so I iron these between two sheets of paper to flatten them.


Anyway a start was made yesterday and the progress thus far and the parts were superglued apart from the 1.0mm round tube which I soldered into the square tube:

The body is made up of three layers: Inner, outer and panelling.

 

[simond]

I rather like that. Would 1930 be too late...? Probably ok in a rural area...

Some rather nice photos on this site, but unfortunately not of a Brougham

Gail Thornton

Best
Simon

 

[Steph Dale]

Simon, Dave,

Actually, there is: Brougham

Steph