Monthly Archives: August 2017
Although other things have been taking a priority at this busy time of the year (for us), the B16 has been ticking along slowly. After consultation with the gent that I am building it for, the plan is only to replace the detail that is supplied as brass castings in the kit.
I have added the lockers/splasher tops inside the cab and cut the backhead to fit. I have also done most of what will be replaced with just one casting to fit tonight. – shown below the cab rear. This will fit to the left of the backhead below the hand wheel and where the ghost of the cast pipe can still be seen – must do a better job of smoothing it of before putting the new one in place. The pipe work for the water gauges is very fine and a bit flimsy so I knocked up a couple of pipe clips from scrap and soldered them in place. I suspect that I will need to do the same with the final pipe when I have it in place.
Kirk All 3rd, The Populace in place
The all 3rd has been progressing too, we now have passengers and a start on the paint work – the plan is to print our some partition tops with carriage prints and possible the mirrors in place – I may end up with plan B for the mirrors which would be to use the Cameo to cut them from foil.
Ian Kirk 52′ BG in 7mm scale complete and ready for delivery to traffic
The 52′ BG is now complete and just needs the roof fastening down.
I will have it with me on the Saturday at Telford should anyone like to see it in the flesh.
More Weathering of the Wagons
A while ago you may recall my building of a couple of LMS vans, an LNER 12 ton van and an ex NBR coke wagon? Well I finally made a start on weathering them. There is still work to do but I am pleased with where 3 sessions with the airbrush have got me to so far.
Seats for everyone
Double Glazing!
In between refitting seats to the Gresley all 3rd I glazed and weathered a couple of my £1 bargain buys.
First is a 1927 Talbot Van, I am not sure that I have posted this one before. When I got it, it was in a very toy like yellow livery with red writing for a bakery. What I had in mind was a [s]second[/s] ‘umpteenth’ hand vehicle that had been hand painted with ex military khaki and subsequently neglected.
I reasoned that the LNER would keep theirs in better condition.
Not quite MRJ but it’s a start…
A short time ago I was approached by a gent called Gareth Price who asked if he could use some of my photos of my NBR wagons to accompany an article that he was writing for MRE mag. Having been asked I was more than happy for Gareth to use what he could.
For anyone who might be interested The article is in this months edition.
Gladiator B16-1 lot’s of little details
It seems like a while since I updated this thread so it must have been a good holiday.
Time has been spent since getting back on the little things that take time and don’t seem to evidence much progress but all add to the overall picture.
I have started looking at the upperworks starting with the cab fittings. A lot of the detail is cast on to the backhead and there are some castings supplied. Sadly a lot of the detail is a bit low relief so I suspect that I will remove and remake most of it.
I add some fine brass wire to the gauges
I also made up some washout plug bases these are two layers of brass with a stub of square section brass inserted. The plan is that this will be soldered behind the holes in the firebox and then half etched surrounds soldered over them. A length of square section was included in the box but I am unsure as to whether this comes with the kit or it was provided by the owner.
I also soldered the elbow provided onto a length of tube for the vacuum ejector pipe.