Finishing the unfinished
Re: Finishing the unfinished
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)
Where did I put that uncoupler?
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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
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"'cause I can't manage on three gaffer!"
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The detailing in your modeling is pure brilliance please keep your pictures coming. One never tires of looking at these modeling photos.
Regards
Kevin
Kevin
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Love the Cookeen Box, you will need a chip pan now and some fish and chips...lol ...Brilliant work.
ROD
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
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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!RylstonLight wrote: βSun 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.
Philip
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Very good tip that Phil.
ROD
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
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excellent modelling, you should be very proud
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Of course you wonβt be able to see your painting errors, but you maybe smelling them for ever!
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Re: Finishing the unfinished
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).
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).
Andy S. at the Rylston Light Railway
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And another row of awestruck faces reading this latest update Andy, I've no doubt. Your work is truly amazing.
Andrew
Andrew
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Re: Finishing the unfinished
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 Β£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
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 Β£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
Andy S. at the Rylston Light Railway
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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 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.
If at first you don't succeed, use a bigger hammer!
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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.
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.
Andy S. at the Rylston Light Railway
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That wagon is absolutely superb. True realism.
Grant.
Grant.
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Totally agree with you there Grant.... hats off to the Master.
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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
This is how I crammed rc into a simplex.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... ilit=Boaz
If at first you don't succeed, use a bigger hammer!
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Wouldnβt 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 havenβt seen it at brothers lately....
Number 15 is very nice indeed David, a truly beautiful piece of craftsmanship.
Number 15 is very nice indeed David, a truly beautiful piece of craftsmanship.
ROD
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
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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.
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