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Keep 'em coming - great amount of detail just in those two pics - love the black stripes on the yellow screw driver - I have a screwdriver just like that - albeit (1:1)

markoteal wrote: Mon Dec 18, 2017 8:57 am Keep 'em coming - great amount of detail just in those two pics - love the black stripes on the yellow screw driver - I have a screwdriver just like that - albeit (1:1)

I was thinking exactly that Mark!

This is exceptional work, photo's that you can look at time and time again and still see something new. Please keep this supply of 'legal high' coming.

Andrew

The detailing in your modeling is pure brilliance please keep your pictures coming. One never tires of looking at these modeling photos.

Love the Cookeen Box, you will need a chip pan now and some fish and chips...lol ...Brilliant work.

RylstonLight wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:23 pm Here is Severn Models working tool-kits and tools. They specialise is etch-brass models for smaller scales, but do two etches for 1:19. A opening cantilever toolkit and a selection of many tools. They are great detail.

Thanks for this. I'd not come across them before and I've just looked them up, nice stuff. Their painting guide page is useful too, never in this world or the next would I have thought of using neat DETTOL to remove dried acrylic paints!

Very good tip that Phil.

Superb detail, love it.

excellent modelling, you should be very proud

philipy wrote: Thu Dec 21, 2017 9:15 am would I have thought of using neat DETTOL to remove dried acrylic paints!

Me neither! Great tip, thanks.

Rik

Of course you won’t be able to see your painting errors, but you maybe smelling them for ever!

THE NEXT FINISH WAGON No15.

As I was preparing to restart the Lister I realised that a top-hinged door coal wagon (No15) still needed its door catches fashioning and fitting (and some tare weights added).

No15 with no door catches. Fashioned largely from reclaimed wooden fruit boxes which are an excellent source of distressed wood.

Marking and cutting out the catch from stock metal bar

One fabricated catch

Finished catch

Detail of the distressed effects you can get with using reclaimed wooden fruit boxes
And that another completed projected (I think).

And another row of awestruck faces reading this latest update Andy, I've no doubt. Your work is truly amazing.

Andrew

The NEXT FINISH: The Lister (in progress still)

The IP engineering Lister was a stalled rebuild. I was trying to be too clever and put in a microprocessor control to make it more, well, controllable. The electrics worked but it proved a bridge too-far to fit it all into the limited spaces available. After much fiddling it was consigned to the back of the study-desk. To be honest I feel "KISS" is the winning principle here and decided to re-install something akin to the designed electrics.

The kit is some years old but I think is still listed on IP's website as current. The white-metal engine block casting is good for its era but the fan-cover has always looked to me as an oppressively blank face with the merest hint of casted grill.

Lister in uniform matt brown

Detail of fan cover with casting of grill just visible

Hopefully we can do better, a web-purchase of woven brass mesh from The Mesh Company cost a total of £3.39 for an A5 panel. They knocked 50p off for a Christmas bonus!

This was soldered to a turned brass bevel

And when offered over the original casting: it definitely shows promise.

Project status: progressing well

Very nice job on the fan cover.

I am looking at fitting rc to one of these. I managed to fit them in a standard simplex, but I think this one could be a real challenge.

I am intrigued, do tell more.

I am not milling away beneath the grill until I am happy the grill is convincing. It is clearly over-scale thickness. But I just gave it a quick dip in Carr's Metal Black for Brass to make it less obvious and offered it up again.


The final version will be finished in Lister Green with just the grill fading to black. Need to sleep on it.

That wagon is absolutely superb. True realism.
Grant.

LNR wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2017 10:28 pm That wagon is absolutely superb. True realism.
Grant.

Totally agree with you there Grant.... hats off to the Master.

I think the engine is supposed to be a Lister LD. It may not have had a fan cover as it depended on what tinwork covered the flywheel. I think the mesh cover you have done is spot on. These engines and the locos they were fitted to were adapted and repaired over the years so I think that it is a case of anything goes.

This is how I crammed rc into a simplex.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... ilit=Boaz

Wouldn’t you just know it, I had one of those 4 years ago, but give it to my brother for a project he was doing for his huge pond he has. I used it to drive a circular saw i had before my heart op...come to think of it, I haven’t seen it at brothers lately....

Number 15 is very nice indeed David, a truly beautiful piece of craftsmanship.

The amount of realism you guys achieve with making things look old is amazing. Sometimes i have to convince myself that i am looking at 19:1 not 1:1.
D.