7mm Rob's Rolling Stock Workbench

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Ooo, sorry. That's a bit of a blow. :(

Steph

Hi Steph,

The good news is that I managed to sort it without too much issue, thankfully the original short bracket that I made was still floting around on the bench so it was pressed into service and all is as it should be.
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
During last week I took a little time out on a couple of evenings to get the top coat of paint on ready for transfers.



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I then blackened the buffers and added a decent set of 3 link couplings.



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Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
While in the North East on a weekend recently I have been doing a bit of wagon building on the workbench all by coincidence from Slaters are three LMS Cattle wagons, a couple of BR vans and an NER 20 ton hopper. The cattle wagons are to be finished as Ale wagons and much progress was made on them this weekend.

Gogin from this:

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To this.

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I also managed to get all the roofs canvassed and a coat of primer
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Just before posting this I also got them primed.
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Having spent all my Christmas break building things for other people I decided to take a day out to build something for me. I had a look in my kit stash and came up with a Gladiator kit for a GCR 10 ton Open Wagon which Chris bought me from Geoff Stratford just before he sold Gladiator To David and Trisha Hill.

So far it has been excellent to build with all parts fitting as they should and the only bits of fettling were to remove some off the ends of the sole bars to enable them to fit under the lip of the bottom of the buffer plank.

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Due to the sides being made up of a couple of layers of reasonable thickness brass the wagon even at this stage has a satisfying weight to it.
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Minor health issues this week have stopped play for a few days so it was only last night when I made more progress.

The open wagon is well on it's way now and it just needs the trestle bar and final details.

I also need to work out just how to spring the buffers because they are turned brass heads that are designed for springing with a piece of piano type wire passing between them and the coupling hook tail.

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Aside from the buffers it's a lovely kit to build with everything fitting as and where it should.
 

Paul Cambridge

Western Thunderer
Rob, Does the coupling hook tail have a hole in it to pass the piano wire through? If it is like the Connoissouer system, there should be a sleeve that fits on the end of the buffer tails, with a slot in it for the piano wire to fit into, to prevent it falling off.

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Underneath of a Connoisseur LNER IMP wagon.
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Bob's wagons are now well under way with just a few jobs remaining before I can get them on their way to him.

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Jobs still to do are:

Fix on the roofs
Add additional weight
Weather the underframes of the cattle wagons
Weather the vans.

I hope to have the weathering, and weight completed tonight.
 

Lyndhurstman

Western Thunderer
Bob's wagons are now well under way with just a few jobs remaining before I can get them on their way to him.

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Jobs still to do are:

Fix on the roofs
Add additional weight
Weather the underframes of the cattle wagons
Weather the vans.

I hope to have the weathering, and weight completed tonight.

Lovely work, Rob.
All of them.

Cheers

Jan
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
The Slaters Wagons are finally complete and although I have enjoyed the building of them I am glad that they are finished and will be delivered to their owner next weekend at Bristol Show.

They are to be used on a Layout called Hobson's Brewery, hence the faint 'ALE' branding on the cattle wagons.

Here are the official portraits of each van.

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Sadly Paul Barlett informs me that running number B68501 belongs to a steel mineral....but I am sure that I took the numbers from the ranges supplied in the Slaters instructions - all things BR not being my strong point.
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