Simon's workbench

Simon

Simon

Flying Squad
Second (and final) coat of Precision SR coach green sprayed on to Mk 1 coach, each end seen here with overspray partially feathered back using white spirit and kitchen towel. Colour match spot on, just got to finish feathering back and then working across whole lower edge in finest wet and dry used wet, finished off with Johnson's Kleer across lower panels - I think. I shall mask off closer to the new strip next time, we got more overspray than we had anticipated.

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I'm quite pleased with the relative invisibility of the strip added to the lower edge of the body. Here's a view of the coach before "surgery".

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Thanks to Andrew Vines for most of the spraying and all the facilities:thumbs:

Simon
 
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Simon

Simon

Flying Squad
Well its not perfect, but the first side is possibly "finished", with Johnsons "Kleer" now brushed across the worked on paint along the lower bodyside. I didn't add too many bits of dust in the process:rolleyes:

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I also modified the corridor partition, for some reason all the corridor windows were too small and so I enlarged them all downwards, which required getting the partitions off the base and away from the seats.

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And I've just gone crosseyed supergluing 124 bits of chopped hex styrene rod on to the "Halwill" bufferstop, all by eye and in more or less the right places. I'm contemplating adding the bolt "tails" to the outside hexes, on the prototype everything is nutted on the outside which is a moderately noticeable feature..

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Time for kip!
 
Simon

Simon

Flying Squad
Not so nocturnal; in between cooking lunch etc. I put the "bolt ends" on to the buffer stop with 0.6mm styrene rod, masked up the base, sprayed it with grey gloss, dusted it while the paint was wet with iron dust, left to it dry, sprayed it with white wine vinegar solution and left again in the shed while I went to the pub:)

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Satisfyingly rusty - creosote going on the buffer plank tomorrow:thumbs:

Simon
 
Simon

Simon

Flying Squad
Vinegar mix-wise I can't remember, I'd guess 23:75 vin to water, I don't think it's critical though.

I used the Klear neat, it is interesting stuff. I'm going to get some household ammonia to strip some of it off as I put too much on and trapped a fair bit of crud into it on one half of the coach. It has good self levelling properties and you can brush it out quite a bit I think, well worth playing with.

I also used a bit of T Cut on the first side which I regretted almost immediately, didn't really seem to do much and bl**dy difficult to remove.

Buffer stop plank face now painted white with a red horizontal stripe, I will creosote the remaining timber faces this afternoon and then leave it all in situ outside to let the rain wash the excess vinegar off.

Simon
 
Simon

Simon

Flying Squad
I can confirm that diluted Household Ammonia (apart from smelling evil in the extreme) removes Klear very effectively, so my sealed in dust has now been removed.

Sniffing the T Cut, like you do, led me to suspect that the Ammonia would also clean this up, which it does. I'm now contemplating going "back in" with some Klear over my freshly T-cutted side.

More like chemistry than modelling:confused:

Simon
 
Simon

Simon

Flying Squad
A package arrived from Modelu today, which included a pocket watch consulting porter and this likely looking character. Seen here waiting for the North Cornwall train to arrive at Halwill...

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Some of you might recognise him:p

He is due an appointment with the Halfords grey primer...

Simon

Photo in background taken by A. E.West, copyright of and obtainable from Mike King.

PS one side of coach now "Kleared" and I think its good enough to use.
 
Simon

Simon

Flying Squad
Nearly two years since the brake van was nearly finished:confused:, it is now very nearly finished and has gone into the first stages of painting. I completed making the roof yesterday, with my usual "old shirt stretched over the top" finish, etch primed the whole thing and then shortly afterwards sprayed the main body with Halfords red primer.

Here it is in the spraybooth, oops greenhouse, yesterday evening

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The second picture shows my roof attachment method, I just need to make a long reach 8BA nut spinner so that I can do the nuts up:p

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Last night I fitted the couplings and put in the main glazing with Cobex type stuff.

There are quite a few things approaching completion now, the PMV is now lettered and awaiting further painting and the re-worked coach looks good out in the garden:)

Simon
 
AJC

AJC

Western Thunderer
Very nice - it's always a relief to see a long-running project reach the paint stage. One thought, however; while I guess the interior might be invisible, might there be merit in adding a dummy floor? If only to stop wildlife getting in?

Adam
 
Simon

Simon

Flying Squad
Thanks Adam.

Yes I will put a floor in, but it has to be removeable in order to gain access to the roof mountings.

Apart from unauthorised passenger ingress, the daylight coming through from the track is currently an unrealistic distracting feature that also highlights the lack of an interior. I wouldn't rule out adding an interior later on, but I doubt the lack of one is going to bother me.

As you say, it does feel good to be completing a long running project. As I recall I started this in mid 2012, at the same time as a WEP Fruit D which I intend to revisit as a running mate to the PMV .

This was all Steve Cook's fault as he sold me both of the kits in one of his periodic "re-focusing" exercises....

Simon
 
D6356

D6356

Western Thunderer
Lovely van - of course you will have seen Northern Finescale about to introduce RTR and kit version - life is just so kind !

Robert
 
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