mickoo
Western Thunderer
Ok here goes,
Basically building in Plasticard in 1/32 scale, the first subject matter is a Class 40 and the current progress is MkII, MkI was an aborted wooden former approach with Plasticard formed over the outside, the details of which can be found at the 'other' site, problems with forming Plasticard that large and that thick saw the demise of that approach.
Current process is a box type affair, materials range from 0.080" (2mm) to 0.022" (0.55mm), there are issues with the current build and reading other Plasticard builds I can see where and why the errors have appeared, the decision now is to decide whether to carry on with MkII and clean it up in the vain hope it'll produce something respectable, or stop now and move to MkIII and use the new techniques/adhesives. I'd built in Plasticard in 4mm many years ago but the previously aquired techniques do not seem to scale up very well!.
Two images to start off, one showing a pre assembly to check everything lines up, the second with some roof skins added, two on the radiator section (primary and final), these skins are 0.55mm and thus dualed to give some rigidity, the boiler secion has only the primary skin, the engine room none and showing some of the internal formers....which later gave issues when skinned....more on that later.
Kindest
Basically building in Plasticard in 1/32 scale, the first subject matter is a Class 40 and the current progress is MkII, MkI was an aborted wooden former approach with Plasticard formed over the outside, the details of which can be found at the 'other' site, problems with forming Plasticard that large and that thick saw the demise of that approach.
Current process is a box type affair, materials range from 0.080" (2mm) to 0.022" (0.55mm), there are issues with the current build and reading other Plasticard builds I can see where and why the errors have appeared, the decision now is to decide whether to carry on with MkII and clean it up in the vain hope it'll produce something respectable, or stop now and move to MkIII and use the new techniques/adhesives. I'd built in Plasticard in 4mm many years ago but the previously aquired techniques do not seem to scale up very well!.
Two images to start off, one showing a pre assembly to check everything lines up, the second with some roof skins added, two on the radiator section (primary and final), these skins are 0.55mm and thus dualed to give some rigidity, the boiler secion has only the primary skin, the engine room none and showing some of the internal formers....which later gave issues when skinned....more on that later.
Kindest