7mm Pencarrow - Cornish BR(S)

[SimonT]

Yestrerday I broke the 9F out of it's bubble wrap after four months packed away for the house move. I managed twenty minutes on a little job but hope to spend a couple of hours on it today when I work out where I had got to on the build.
Simon
PS Santa brought me the WDLR Companion - sublime!

 

[Paul Cambridge]

Yestrerday I broke the 9F out of it's bubble wrap after four months packed away for the house move. I managed twenty minutes on a little job but hope to spend a couple of hours on it today when I work out where I had got to on the build.
Simon
PS Santa brought me the WDLR Companion - sublime!

The WDLR Companion is a truly excellent book, which along with the earlier WDLR Album make a superb record of this ephemeral system. They are a fitting tribute to all involved in their conception, construction and operation. WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM.

 

[Peter Cross]

Cheers Peter


A white Christmas in Brazil? Did you finish Thomas in time for Santa to deliver to Pedro?

Unfortunately no. Thomas needs his buffers, valance and lining doing. A face is also required. I sent emails to a couple of people at shapeways. One replied but never came back once I told him the size. So it looks like I will need to make one myself.

 

[simond]

Peter,

You might make the face from Das - if you don’t stick the smokebox door in, you could make the face with a “plug” that fits the smokebox “hole”, perhaps with a dab of Uhu, or even blu tak. That way, when he grows out of “faces”, he can pull it off, and put the proper door on, and have a “serious” model.

We built a Mavis (about 18 years ago, then about 3) for MasterD based on an Atlas chassis, and a Toby (about 14 years ago, as reported in the Gazette then about 5) for MissD, based on a Lima bogie. Didn’t do faces for either of them. Fitted both with cheapo Lenz decoders which ensure that Vmax was “safe”, I got them a Lima Toad, and a few Big Big minerals, fitted with decent wheels and oversize 3-links which worked well with little hands.

We still have the locos, though neither child is very interested...

All the best for the new year
Simon

 

[Peter Cross]

Thanks Simon, I'd thought about DAS but it's hard to come by here. I have found a ceramic type air drying putty. But it's more my ability to actually carve the stuff.

 

[simond]

Additive manufacture is the way to go!

Blobs of clay, perhaps on top of a disc of clay stuck to a disc of plasticard.

Or chicken out like I did...

S