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Well these things seem to be rather popular at the moment.
These are a recently finished project, very similar to Graeme's (GTB) ones. The build is simple and self evident. The photo I was using showed square nuts, so making 96 off 1/8th". square nuts tapped 10BA was frustrating to say the least. I wanted to build six sets to run empty or with logs, and six sets loaded with sawn timber. Painted with suitable washes, split and damaged on the ends, and wheels rusty with shiny grease/oil around their axle ends.
The first pic. of one nearly finished. The second pic. shows them being tested, chained together checking being pulled and pushed through an S bend over points. The final pic. shows the three sets with a sawn timber load chained and tightened with flitch sticks, sitting in the siding at Warringine. Just how these will be used on the LNR will be made public in due course
Grant.

Simple and yet they look very realistic.

I do like a model railway that has rolling stock, locos, etc with that 'used' look.

I agree with Tom other than using the word 'simple'. These are amongst the most demanding types to model to get the appearance and function to work well together. The end result belies the amount of work involved.

The faded timber colours look spot on. Is there a secret you can share?

Rik

Vinegar and wire wool solution will give wood that colour Rik.

tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:48 pm Vinegar and wire wool solution will give wood that colour Rik.

Do you soak the wood in it or paint it on?

Rik

Paint it on, I do it in stages to let the wood dry out so it does not warp.

tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:48 pm Vinegar and wire wool solution will give wood that colour Rik.

And add a teabag if you want it darker...

More lovely timber bogies, well done! I'll be following a similar theme myself, Ffestiniog style, when my Lineside Hut bolster kits arrive- although kitbuilding will feel like cheating compared to the lovely scratchbuilt examples we're being treated to here...

Cheers,

Andrew.

Thank you all for the compliments, they are appreciated. The LNR has been quiet for too long!!

ge_rik wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:15 pm The faded timber colours look spot on. Is there a secret you can share?

I've read of the many ways of doing this on the forum. I didn't have Isopropanol, so used enamel thinners with white, touch of black, and a burnt sienna colour mixed in. I say mixed in but it really sort of curdled. (if you saw it on the footpath, you'd cross the road!!) but when brushed on it showed grey in places and let the timber colour come through in others, I also use my cloth polishing buff on the grinder to polish timber to show wear and ingrained dirt on the ends where they have been pushed together, and on the bolsters..
Grant.

LNR wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 1:57 am Thank you all for the compliments, they are appreciated. The LNR has been quiet for too long!!

ge_rik wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:15 pm The faded timber colours look spot on. Is there a secret you can share?

I've read of the many ways of doing this on the forum. I didn't have Isopropanol, so used enamel thinners with white, touch of black, and a burnt sienna colour mixed in. I say mixed in but it really sort of curdled. (if you saw it on the footpath, you'd cross the road!!) but when brushed on it showed grey in places and let the timber colour come through in others, I also use my cloth polishing buff on the grinder to polish timber to show wear and ingrained dirt on the ends where they have been pushed together, and on the bolsters..
Grant.

Thanks! Another idea filed for future reference.

Rik

Damn fine those, as is the rest of your work, I must say. Wish I'd have thought to roughen up the frame ends on mine, bit late now. Might have to steal that wheel grime idea for my own bolsters..

It honestly took me a minute of two to be certain that the first picture wasn't 12" to the foot scale!

Well done,

Andrew