{"id":1574,"date":"2015-02-10T19:18:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T18:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2015-02-10T19:18:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T18:18:19","slug":"gladiator-lnwr-lms-beer-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1574","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator LNWR-LMS Beer Van"},"content":{"rendered":"
The next kit across the bench was one of my Christmas pressies (well you have to don’t you)<\/div>\n
Along the way I picked up a new technique along the way that helped tremendously on this one with the overlays and I thought it worth sharing.<\/div>\n
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First I would like to offer my thanks to Geoff Stratford of Gladiator for sending me some more end stanchions after I melted one. Such customer service will be missed in your well earned retirement Geoff!<\/div>\n
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I planned from the outset to glue the etched overlays onto the cast frames on the sides but as I was tinning the various body sections to allow me to add the cast parts with 70 degree solder and subsequently melting one of the end stanchions I started to think ahead to the bits that I might struggle with later – in terms of either melting them or bit’s dropping off.<\/div>\n
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I decided to try tinning the overlays with 145 degree and then tinning them again with 70 degree over the top of the 145. I then placed the overlay on the cast frame applied some flux and ran my lower temp iron down the side of the overlay and hey presto it was stuck fast.<\/div>\n
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I even used the same process on the corner brackets on the bras to brass bit’s where they covered the cast frames.<\/div>\n
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In terms of the kit itself I made it up as per the instructions with the only deviations in the form of adding a brass floor and a couple of 14ba nuts on the outsides of the brake levers where they attach to the V hangers.<\/div>\n
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I also made the roof removable to aid painting.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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