{"id":3302,"date":"2018-03-04T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2018-03-04T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T12:35:29","slug":"poetry-in-motion-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3302","title":{"rendered":"Poetry in Motion (Plate…)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had originally planned to go to Kettering show this weekend with a stop over on Friday night. Taking the decision not to go has given me an extra couple of days of thinking\/modelling time in which to really get my head into the inside motion.<\/p>\n

Fellow modeller Paul Penn-Sayers had offered to cut out a motion plate for the J6 for me. Paul has also supplied lots of information and patiently answered my ‘newby’ questions regarding inside motion for which I am eternally grateful. While I fully intended to take up the offer events somewhat overtook me.<\/p>\n

While studying the GA drawing to work out which bit was which on Wednesday evening I had the thought of importing it into Inkscape (the drawing package that I use to draw for the silhouette), rescaling it to 7mm scale and then highlighting the components that make up the motion so that I could see what they are.<\/p>\n

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You can see the difference in the layout of the motion compared with the Midland variation in which the motion set from Laurie Griffin is based – below is a snip from the LG instructions.<\/p>\n

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While I was doing my stuff in Inkscape, Chris suggested using my silhouette to create a template for the motion plate to test whether it would fit between the frames etc. I thought that a great idea and within a very short space of time I had drawn up and cut this<\/p>\n

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I used that to transfer the measurements onto a spare frame spacer and drilled\/cut filed it out. Due to using it as a template to scribe around, some of the measurements were fractionally over size, while the internal ones were slightly undersized. I kept filing until the slide bars fit and I got this. – I added the framing top and bottom afterwards.<\/p>\n

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Gladiator J6 – Scratch Built Motion Plate<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking at Paul’s and Nick Dunhill’s superb motion plate examples, I realise that I will have to file some relief in the tops and bottom of the slide bar seats\/openings in a similar manner to the centre opening where the eccentric rods will pass through, in order to allow for the up\/down movement of the piston rods.<\/p>\n

This is it in the frames – held by a blob of Blue tack<\/p>\n

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Gladiator J6 – Scratch Built Motion Plate<\/p><\/div>\n

Although as I say I am very grateful to Paul for his offer to cut one out for me and looking at the example posted by Heather Kay on Western Thunder, it would have been of a much higher fidelity than my first effort has achieved but it’s a skill learned and Paul’s help has helped me to make sense of GA’s which has previously eluded me – all the lines blurring into a shapeless mass. Another skill which will only improve with practice and should translate into better quality models at the end of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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