Giles' misc. Work bench.

Giles

Western Thunderer
Phil, that lot is amazing....i spent some time looking for stuff on this subject but couldn't find anything as good as this! Certainly food for thought....
Thank you!
 

Giles

Western Thunderer
The wheel-house now has its wheel, binnacle and engine room telegraph, as does the flying bridge



2020-05-26_05-28-17 by giles favell, on Flickr



The balwarks are now reinforced (still got the ones astern of the bridge to do....)



2020-05-26_05-29-03 by giles favell, on Flickr

2020-05-26_05-27-43 by giles favell, on Flickr



She has gained her whistle

2020-05-26_05-27-18 by giles favell, on Flickr

And she's finally got her rails on the after bulkwarks. These had to match the irregular curve of the hull, so a 10mm square grid was printed, and held over the hull, and then traced on to the grid. This was then transcribed on to CAD and printed, then checked, adjusted, printed until correct. The capping were then lasered using this drawing- although the drawing could have been stuck to the material and cut out by hand....

2020-05-26_05-56-46 by giles favell, on Flickr



2020-05-26_05-31-49 by giles favell, on Flickr
 

Giles

Western Thunderer

Giles

Western Thunderer
SS Sparrow..... (nicknamed Spuggie, for northerners!)

I think I might certainly find a bottle of Champagne when she's eventually finished..... ive already built layouts in less time!
She'll go on a layout called 'the Sparrow' to be loaded or unloaded infinitely....
 

Giles

Western Thunderer
Diverting away from Sparrow briefly, I need to do an article on converting vehicles to radio control, and had a thought that I wanted to try out...... it turns out that this is too complicated for what I need - but interesting none the less.
Multi axle drive, not using the gearboxes you can buy from Germany (which of course are fixed dimensions and ratios).
This is a 4mm scale ACE Ergomatic from Oxford Models.

2020-06-12_03-15-35
by giles favell, on Flickr

Video link below....

VID-20200612-WA0005

I propose to use this drive for a standard gauge self propelled crane in the fairly near future.
 
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Giles

Western Thunderer
Fortunately, it's rather difficult (doing a conversion like this) to get the front axle at precisely the correct height, and so one rear axle or the other is carrying most of the load, and the other is just touching the ground, and therefore it turns fine. I did put a heavy load directly over both rear axles, which put them both in full hard contact, whilst at the same time slightly relieving the front axle - and yes - there was a tendency to carry on!

None the less, the principle is a potentially useful one
 
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