Progress on the NER Vans

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Rob Pulham

I spent most of Saturday on a very enjoyable whistle stop tour of the Yorkshire Dales so modelling time was much reduced.

What did get done was further detailing on the NER G1 and G2 vans.

Scratch Built 7mm scale NER G1 Van

Scratch Built 7mm scale NER G2 Van

They are still very difficult to photograph whilst still white.

Also after a marthon 10 hour cutting session I made a start on assembling the layers for a NBR D42B van which is visually very similar to the D39B van but it’s wider and higher. I will be making the ends for this one myself so it will be interesting to compare them to the Parkside ends on the D39B when I get that far.

Ex NBR D39B Van – moving along

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Rob Pulham

I also managed to move the NBR Diagram 39B van on quite a way to just needing a roof and couplings.

Ex NBR D39B Van

The brake levers proved to be a little challenging, none of my many Parkside or Slaters spares were long enough. The answer was to laminate a piece of 0.25mm either side of a piece of 0.5mm and leave it over night to dry thoroughly. – in the same manner that I did the W Irons earlier.

I then cut a couple of tapered strips and applied limonene to both sides where I wanted the bends to be (one bend at a time) once the limonene had softened the strips I made the bend with some round nosed pliers. I then used some self locking tweezers as clamps to hold the bends in position while the plastic hardened again.

Ex GNSR Vacuum Cleaner Wagon

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Rob Pulham

In between distressing wagons I managed to progress a couple of other projects the first one being the ex GNSR Vacuum Cleaner Wagon. This now has buffers, brakes and a coat of paint on the upper works. The buffers have been borrowed from another kit and the brakes were from the spares box

GNSR Vacuum Cleaner Wagon

More from the condemned lines

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Rob Pulham

Last year I picked up several plastic wagon kit’s from the Guild’s Executor and Trustee lists which I collected at the Summer show. Amongst them was a couple of 3 Aitch wagon kits which I bought on ‘spec’ not knowing anything about them. I subsequently built one but decided they were not of the fidelity that I had become accustomed to so I put them in the small adds on several forums. I didn’t get any takers.

So I decided over Easter to built the second and detail them both as condemned wagons. I am quite happy with how they turned out.