Styrene sheet moulding - Quintus build - FINISHED

[philipy]

I'm afraid my fingers become thumbs when I try doing the fiddly bits - but I'm willing to have another go after reading your descriptions.

Rik

Knowing it can be done, and having a pointer as to how, is 90% of the battle. Thats exactly how your Deltang expertise helped me.

[philipy]

The nameplates arrived from NarrowPlanet a few days ago and Octavius is now finally finished, apart from some necessary tweaking of the soundcard.

[LNR]

The icing on the cake Philip, a beautifully built, painted and finished loco. You should be well pleased.
Grant.

[Peter Butler]

I totally agree with Grant, a beautifully built and finished loco. Lots of nice detail and lining.... (where did that come from?)
Well worth the time and effort I think, congrats!

[philipy]

  Lots of nice detail and lining.... (where did that come from?)  
!

Thanks chaps.

Peter,
The lining was DIY waterslide. I used Draftsight ( which is a freebie Autocad lookalike and very good) to draw a simple outline of the cabside, ends and tank side. Then drew the lining and fiddled about with it until I got it looking about right - did several versions with the lining at different line thicknesses and configurations until I was happy. Then laser printed it onto white waterslide decal paper ( black central line and green outer line to edge the white. The difficult bit was then cutting round it all, but a ruler, pointed scalpel and care did the job. Most of it is straight lines, so only the curved corners are dicey.

[ge_rik]

Excellent job Philip. She looks stunning and from the video it looks as if she delivers the goods - so to speak.

It's been great watching her slowly evolve through the thread.

Rik

[JCSteam]

A very nice build, and a lovely looking loco painting our the cranks worked well, I had to zoom in to see if they were still there, very cool