7mm On Heather's Workbench - another other Twin
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Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
It's back!
I've fitted the fan, sorted out a couple of minor body fitting issues, and glued the roof on. Now it's ready for final detailing. Thanks to Tim (@TheSnapper) for a lovely neat job of the electronics. Sadly, I can't
Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
Time to stick numbers on.
I had been pondering how to hold numbers in register and stick them on for ages. The numbers on the etch frame are held by a tag on one edge (top, bottom, whichever you prefer). I spent a little while straightening the numbers, then applied some Tamiya masking tape along them. The idea was to try and hold the numbers in register and make them a little easier to apply to the loco. Actually fixing them to the loco is achieved with drops of gloss varnish on the reverse. The strips were then carefully aligned by eye, gently pressed down, then left for the varnish to dry enough that the tape could be carefully removed.
I think it worked. There's enough time to make final adjustments to each number if required. Works plates are from Guilplates. They're slightly over scale, the reason being the original true scale ones I ordered were completely illegible and, frankly, rubbish. I returned them with a note explaining that I knew Guilplates could do better. And they did. The slight increase in size isn't really a bother, in my opinion.
Now to think about the handrails. I think I ought to have considered these before I got to this point, really. I have a cunning plan to reinforce the plain surface fixing using fine wire. I'll let the varnish dry first, though.
I had been pondering how to hold numbers in register and stick them on for ages. The numbers on the etch frame are held by a tag on one edge (top, bottom, whichever you prefer). I spent a little while straightening the numbers, then applied some Tamiya masking tape along them. The idea was to try and hold the numbers in register and make them a little easier to apply to the loco. Actually fixing them to the loco is achieved with drops of gloss varnish on the reverse. The strips were then carefully aligned by eye, gently pressed down, then left for the varnish to dry enough that the tape could be carefully removed.
I think it worked. There's enough time to make final adjustments to each number if required. Works plates are from Guilplates. They're slightly over scale, the reason being the original true scale ones I ordered were completely illegible and, frankly, rubbish. I returned them with a note explaining that I knew Guilplates could do better. And they did. The slight increase in size isn't really a bother, in my opinion.
Now to think about the handrails. I think I ought to have considered these before I got to this point, really. I have a cunning plan to reinforce the plain surface fixing using fine wire. I'll let the varnish dry first, though.
Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
I suppose I ought to sum up this build, albeit rather belatedly!
First, linky-clicky thing to the official portrait thread.
I've always been a bit partial to Ivatt's diesels, perhaps more towards the first of the pair if I'm honest. Since the kit appeared from JLTRT, I had planned to one day build a better one than I managed all those years ago from the RJH stable. Straight out of the box, you get a representative model of 10000/10001, a model that passes muster for most people. With a little effort, and suitable references of course, that out-of-the-box model can be made into a very good miniature of the real thing.
There are parts of this build I would do better. In my usual fashion, I did some things bass ackwards. Footling around with the Slater's gearbox/motor and delrin drive was an error I don't plan on repeating. Getting the paint right would be a useful lesson, too. Still, the finished model looks like 10001, and is sufficiently different in the details from its sibling that I am happy it was worth some of the efforts.
Would I make another? Yes, of course. I already have another 10001 under construction, even if it was started earlier than this one. I'm going to move that forward, now I know how it fits together, and even though it's being built as a sort of favour.
Perhaps, one day, someone will ask me to build 10000 for a change!
First, linky-clicky thing to the official portrait thread.
I've always been a bit partial to Ivatt's diesels, perhaps more towards the first of the pair if I'm honest. Since the kit appeared from JLTRT, I had planned to one day build a better one than I managed all those years ago from the RJH stable. Straight out of the box, you get a representative model of 10000/10001, a model that passes muster for most people. With a little effort, and suitable references of course, that out-of-the-box model can be made into a very good miniature of the real thing.
There are parts of this build I would do better. In my usual fashion, I did some things bass ackwards. Footling around with the Slater's gearbox/motor and delrin drive was an error I don't plan on repeating. Getting the paint right would be a useful lesson, too. Still, the finished model looks like 10001, and is sufficiently different in the details from its sibling that I am happy it was worth some of the efforts.
Would I make another? Yes, of course. I already have another 10001 under construction, even if it was started earlier than this one. I'm going to move that forward, now I know how it fits together, and even though it's being built as a sort of favour.
Perhaps, one day, someone will ask me to build 10000 for a change!
Simon
Flying Squad
I hesitate to say this when you've built such a lovely model, but I wouldn't be happy with those numbers. They may be overscale, but more significantly the shape of the zeros is wrong, their is less "weight" to the horizontals than the verticals. The numbers just don't look right, sorry
Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
No, I think you're correct. But, they are what they are, and I don't think I can change them easily. I also think my spacing is off, although I retained the original etch spacing thinking it would be right…
Next time!
Next time!