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

Weighbridge

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
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.

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Steph Dale

Western Thunderer
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
 

Steph Dale

Western Thunderer
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. :confused:

Steph
 
Brougham

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
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.
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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.
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