Steve Cook
Flying Squad
Definitely possible CK, I'm just going to swap between the two figures as I like the fact their hands 'grip' the rear cab rail
Back on with the coach for the moment. The ends were glued in place a week or so ago, despite them being over width, its just as easy to trim them down in situ.
After a quick sanding down to make the ends the correct width (a bit of 80 grade emery paper makes short work of 1.5mm thick ply) the next job was to modify the outer fret. There is nowt wrong with it as it stands, but as a fair few people are building these coaches its nice to do something slightly different.
The four vertical parts of the fret for the bottom of the doors were removed, creating panelling similar to that on Carriage 18 on the Ffestiniog railway. As I'm going for a similar colour scheme (albeit dark blue rather than black (well, today anyway )) I thought I'd use a bit more inspiration from that coach to tide me along.
You can see the error between fret and windows cut outs on the outermost windows. Before fixing that, the fret was glued in place using superglue and some brass bar used to weight everything in place whilst the glue dried.
A bit of sanding saw the window openings enlarged to make the mismatch less obvious (not that this photo shows that particularly well!). The droplights were glued in place, tacking them in with superglue (using accelerator to speed the process up), then filling in any resulting gaps with white glue, but from the rear.
As expected, the frets for the end were oversized
so they were trimmed down
until they fitted nicely between the side frets
Aside from the bizarre and not yet modified buffer beams, the basic carcass is now complete
I am just gluing in some extra strips on the ends to thicken up the fret where it meets the sides, it looks a little thin without them.
They will get sanded down tomorrow whilst I apply filler where its needed and ruminate on whether I'm going to do panels for the interior, or just glue basic seats in place and be done with it. I don't want too much work, there is one more to build like this, then two more to engage in some mating exercise to create a bogie coach
Steve
Back on with the coach for the moment. The ends were glued in place a week or so ago, despite them being over width, its just as easy to trim them down in situ.
After a quick sanding down to make the ends the correct width (a bit of 80 grade emery paper makes short work of 1.5mm thick ply) the next job was to modify the outer fret. There is nowt wrong with it as it stands, but as a fair few people are building these coaches its nice to do something slightly different.
The four vertical parts of the fret for the bottom of the doors were removed, creating panelling similar to that on Carriage 18 on the Ffestiniog railway. As I'm going for a similar colour scheme (albeit dark blue rather than black (well, today anyway )) I thought I'd use a bit more inspiration from that coach to tide me along.
You can see the error between fret and windows cut outs on the outermost windows. Before fixing that, the fret was glued in place using superglue and some brass bar used to weight everything in place whilst the glue dried.
A bit of sanding saw the window openings enlarged to make the mismatch less obvious (not that this photo shows that particularly well!). The droplights were glued in place, tacking them in with superglue (using accelerator to speed the process up), then filling in any resulting gaps with white glue, but from the rear.
As expected, the frets for the end were oversized
so they were trimmed down
until they fitted nicely between the side frets
Aside from the bizarre and not yet modified buffer beams, the basic carcass is now complete
I am just gluing in some extra strips on the ends to thicken up the fret where it meets the sides, it looks a little thin without them.
They will get sanded down tomorrow whilst I apply filler where its needed and ruminate on whether I'm going to do panels for the interior, or just glue basic seats in place and be done with it. I don't want too much work, there is one more to build like this, then two more to engage in some mating exercise to create a bogie coach
Steve