{"id":3232,"date":"2018-01-16T18:34:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2018-01-16T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:34:26","slug":"kirk-bogie-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3232","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Bogie Enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-redactor=\"1\">I am back on the trail of Kirk coach builds,\u00a0 this time it&#8217;s an all 3rd\/brake 3rd twin set (Diags 105\/125).<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">It&#8217;s for the gent that I built the last two for and this time he has gone for using the supplied Kirk bogies so I thought that I might upgrade them a little.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">First I added some of my Silhouette cut leaf springs and then looked to make some springs for the bolsters.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">I am aware that others have used 2ba screws to do represent the bolsters springs but to my mind the coils are a little too sharp in profile so I wound some 3mm styrene rod with 0.8\/mm styrene rod to make the springs.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">I also added the spring carriers and in hindsight I should have added the springs before sticking the carriers to the bogies because it&#8217;s going to be interesting getting the springs in position now.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3233\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3233\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_7354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_7354.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_7354-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_7354-768x550.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_7354-419x300.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Kirk 7mm scale Bogie Enhancements<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3234\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3234\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3234\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3234\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_7362.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_7362.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_7362-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_7362-768x549.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_7362-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Kirk 7mm scale Bogie Enhancements<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have also assembled the sides but didn&#8217;t take photos of them.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am back on the trail of Kirk coach builds,\u00a0 this time it&#8217;s an all 3rd\/brake 3rd twin set (Diags 105\/125). It&#8217;s for the gent that I built the last two for and this time he has gone for using &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3232\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kirk-coach-builds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}