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Today I've started on my MOTY entry. If you already know what it's going to be, DON'T SAY ANYTHING! I want to see how far down the line we get before the penny drops.

It's going to be a Diplock Trophy entry.............




I started off with one of these..................




which rapidly changed to this..............




................. and this. It is of course a Houston Gate Loco Works flat truck - at only £12.75 it's not worth buying the bits and making a chassis from scratch! You will notice that two pieces of wood have been added at floor edge level - these will provide somewhere for the body sides to fit to and somewhere for the door bottom runner to be fixed.




As the axle box covers are square, the fitters can't always be ar$ed to put them on the correct way round, with this result! (and yes, the other end of each axle is the opposite to what you see...............)

MDLR:95717 wrote:Today I've started on my MOTY entry. If you already know what it's going to be, DON'T SAY ANYTHING! I want to see how far down the line we get before the penny drops.

It's going to be a Diplock Trophy entry.............

You've got to pry it out of my sticky fingers first Brian! I just might be back for another try.....

Can You Tell What It Is Yet??

No, but I'm intrigued as I also have a Diplock Trophy entry planned but am still at the design stage

It's a bit of non-serious "fun" modelling of a very unusual prototype.....................

good luck with your entry im looking forward to seeing more .....
im thinking on entering it too not to sure my model making skills are quite up to the standard thou

Don't worry too much about that - in the Whimsical Class there have been some very basic (but at times very clever) models!

anything to do with Dick Simnel?

A hglw flat wagon with added sides?

My OCD is running overtime at that last photo...

DolwyddelanLightRail:95741 wrote:My OCD is running overtime at that last photo...

CHUCKLE!! Sorry about that, Dan and Zach, you're DEFINITELY going in the right direction!

AHH, now I know what you up to Brian, just seen your Facebook post, I'll keep stumm  :D

WVLR:95763 wrote:AHH, now I know what you up to Brian, just seen your Facebook post, I'll keep stumm  :D

DRAT!!

January 23rd, 2014
Last night was mainly spent cutting up stripwood for the planked floor and the ends, coz when you're scratch building, you don't get everything cut to length. The former (apart from two pieces) were stacked to one side and the end planks were glued to a pair of previously glued-and-pinned verticals at each end. The pointed tops were cut and added and the whole set aside to dry.

Today, two pieces of wood were added at the "eaves" of the wagon, the rough edges of the ends and the bits of vertical which stuck up above the ends were all trimmed off and tidied and a pair of Roundhouse lamp irons added before the vehicle was sent to the Paint Shop. This vehicle hasn't been "designed" like you might possibly think: I've got a picture of the completed model in my mind's eye, but there isn't even a drawing on the back of a fag packet (given that I don't smoke, that would be difficult) but things get "designed" on an ad-hoc basis as I'm going along.



From here on in, the vehicle won't be getting any more paint - the floor's going to be stained and the interior partitions should arrive ready-painted - if they don't they'll get a coat of 16mm scale limewash. I'll also be using this stuff.........

And I thought it was for a cat to chase the rat!

Have you located the parts you were looking for yet Brian?

Brian, without giving the game away to others that don't know what your building, Mike (WVLR) and myself were talking about this earlier, after it being pointed out, we both think you have made a very big fatal error here (All credit for that point goes to Mike)

I've got a number of enquiries ongoing.....................

At a wild guess I'd say this is a one off wagon for the transportation of 'live' beehives

Live somethings, certainly!

Lions?