RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2020 (edited) Having cut apart what I’d already done I’ve managed to reassemble the chassis for the crane and give it a coat of dark grey I couldn’t rescue the buffers so I drilled holes and used the buffers from a donor Bachaman wagon....which look better anyway To get a closer coupling I’ve cut down an NEM pocket and drilled a hole through to use a styrene bar as a dowel Ive built up the match truck chassis, I spent more time sanding and filing this time to get the corners to go together properly but I had to build up one of the corners with plasticard because of the damage I caused when I cut it apart Getting the coupling heights to match was challenging But managed in the end I know I should use 3 link couplings between the crane and the match truck but I haven’t I’ve also managed to reassemble the crane jib although I’ve had to use quite a bit of filler particularly where the two halves join together and file the slots out I wish I’d taken photos before I cut it apart so I could illustrate how badly it fit together the first time Progress will now slow to a crawl as I will be returning to work tomorrow after a two month furlough period Edited June 1, 2020 by chuffinghell 10 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2020 That looks perfect to me - dunno what you were worried about 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted June 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2020 Looks as though work is going to get in the way of modelling! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2020 5 minutes ago, Rowsley17D said: Looks as though work is going to get in the way of modelling! Yes unfortunately At least I’ve had a taste of retirement, I’ve now got to wait 23 years for the real thing Hopefully I’ll still get some modelling done before then though 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2020 14 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: That looks perfect to me - dunno what you were worried about Thanks Stu Originally the jib didn’t fit together very well but I’m relieved that I’ve managed to recuse it with the help of a shed load of filler and lots of sanding Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2020 (edited) I’m going to use a scrap wagon to practice weathering but in the meantime I’ve already given the wheels a coat of frame dirt....I assumed it would be easier to do the wheels out of the chassis I’m only going to give it a light going over with the frame dirt as I imagine it wouldn’t get very dirty just used up and down through the goods yard Although it can be moved I’ll probably leave it unused and ‘on call’ in one of the sidings as a stationary display Edited June 1, 2020 by chuffinghell 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2020 (edited) If there is one thing this ordeal has taught me is to leave wagon kits to those with more skills and patience than myself I always try to finish what I start so I will attempt to do so but I don’t think I will be in a hurry to build any more wagon kits in the near future....or at least not Cambrian ones Edited June 1, 2020 by chuffinghell 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MAP66 Posted June 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 1, 2020 On 30/05/2020 at 11:12, chuffinghell said: The best flux is a flux capacitor The only problem is it requires 1.21 gigawatts Great Scott!! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2020 Since starting back at work this week it has interfered with my modelling hence the lack of progress As it’s POETS day today I managed to get a little painting done this afternoon Instead of mixing a colour for the match truck’s wood planks I just used sleeper grime I did have a moment to build one of the tool boxes in the week so I painted that too, I just need to make up the other tool box 10 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted June 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2020 Looking very good so far, colour choice is spot on. Al. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Alister_G said: Looking very good so far, colour choice is spot on. Al. Thanks Al I bought a few different greys All from the Vallejo Air range USAF Dark Grey Panza Dark Grey Medium Gunship Grey After comparing the colours with a non-weathered Bachmann MOGO wagon I used the USAF dark grey although the Panza dark grey would have been okay too I pinched the idea of using sleeper grime for the wood from an @AY Mod’s video on weathering a wagon Edited June 5, 2020 by chuffinghell 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 I've been following this wagon project and dug out of the doomsday box of kits, an unbuilt Cambrian GWR crane and match truck. I'll learn by your experience and build the crane jib first. That looks like the make or break element of the job! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2020 (edited) 34 minutes ago, MrWolf said: I've been following this wagon project and dug out of the doomsday box of kits, an unbuilt Cambrian GWR crane and match truck. I'll learn by your experience and build the crane jib first. That looks like the make or break element of the job! It might be more my inability to build it properly rather than the kit being at fault Edited June 5, 2020 by chuffinghell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 hour ago, chuffinghell said: It might be more my inability to build it properly rather than the kit being at fault Somehow I doubt that. Wagon kits can be fiddly. Crane kits put the F in fiddly. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2020 10 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Somehow I doubt that. Wagon kits can be fiddly. Crane kits put the F in fiddly. I nearly put the fiddly crane in the F bin 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted June 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 minute ago, chuffinghell said: I nearly put the fiddly crane in the F bin Then there'd be no F in crane at all... Al. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 The man who has never made a mistake has never made anything. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MAP66 Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 6, 2020 Chris, you are doing a stirling job with the Cambrian kit, the photos are evidence of that. You may have been unlucky and ended up with your kit produced on POETS day, hence the quality issues. Like Mr Wolf, I also have one of these kits which I purchased ages ago, still unopened and lurking in a drawer somewhere. We are all behind you and willing you on to get the crane completed. Don't consider the F bin, unless it stands for Finished bin which is where you proudly place your finished models ready for us all to see and marvel at. All the best Mark 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 20 hours ago, MrWolf said: I've been following this wagon project and dug out of the doomsday box of kits, an unbuilt Cambrian GWR crane and match truck. I'll learn by your experience and build the crane jib first. That looks like the make or break element of the job! 7 hours ago, MAP66 said: Like Mr Wolf, I also have one of these kits which I purchased ages ago, still unopened and lurking in a drawer somewhere. We are all behind you and willing you on to get the crane completed. The main error I made was to assume all the parts would fit nicely together like say a Wills or Peco kit which are the only kits I have experience with thus far....unless you count the Airfix airplanes I use make a mess of as a child One thing I’ve learned is to dry fit the parts several times before committing yourself to glue, I mistakenly took some of the flashing as part of the item itself because in some cases it appeared to be a rebate or step for adjoining parts to fit into. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 A lot of the moulds used in making many of the kits we build are ancient, some, like the ratio GWR wagons and coaches date back to the 60s. Although they have probably been built up and re-machined several times, you will get some flash. Others are basically produced on antiquated machinery in someone's garage using moulds inherited from other companies. So some cleaning up is inevitable. The alternative is that we lose these valuable resources forever and have to put up with open the box and put it on the layout modelling. Whilst that may be fine for some people, like collecting say new die cast model lorries in every livery possible and just admiring them, I would pack up model railways altogether as I was bored with out of the box toy trains by about the age of 10. Roughly when I built my first Airfix mineral wagon and sat painting all the insulators on their telegraph poles set a dirty white. Life would be boring if we didn't have to put effort, imagination and a little bit of frustration into achievement. Things might get so bad I might have to take up golf, about ten minutes before shooting myself no doubt... 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold simonmcp Posted June 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2020 I always marvel at your attention to detail and workmanship. I once spent over half an hour trying to file a Ratio Southern platelayers hut roof to fit, I think there are only six items in the whole kit and it took hours to get it to look right. The worst kit I've ever tried to rescue was one of GWR Ratio signals where the two Half's of the mould were out by over 1.5mm, not good when that included the round signal post. So well done on the crane kit. Simon 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 7, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2020 (edited) I’ve attempted to add a bit of life to the match truck Before After ‘WARREN’ and ‘MATCH TRUCK’ are @railtec-models Transfers and the others are Modelmasters I know the number isn’t prototypical and the Tare weight is probably wrong but I don’t care, Warren is a fictional place and only loosely based on a GWR branchline The worst thing is that I’ve still got to do the other side and I’ve only got one shot at it as I’ve only got one set of transfers left ( I messed up one of the ‘MATCH TRUCK’ transfers) Although If it all goes Pete Tong it doesn’t really matter because this is the only side visible on the layout Edited June 12, 2020 by chuffinghell 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 7, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2020 33 minutes ago, simonmcp said: I always marvel at your attention to detail and workmanship..............So well done on the crane kit. Simon Thanks Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted June 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2020 10 hours ago, chuffinghell said: Although If it all goes Pete Tong it doesn’t really matter because this is the only side visible on the layout Quite so. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted June 8, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8, 2020 14 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Quite so. Luckily I successfully managed to apply the transfers to the opposite side and applied a coat of gloss all over in an attempt to further disguise the carrier film, mostly for the Modelmasters transfers The gloss was applied last night before going to bed so I won't know the results until I get home from work this evening Fingers crossed it looks okay, if so I can finish the match truck assembly, if not I will cry 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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