{"id":7631,"date":"2026-03-18T18:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7631"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:56:37","slug":"character-building-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7631","title":{"rendered":"Character Building &#8211; the Hard Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a complete aside, and those with a bandsaw look away and start sniggering now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite attaining poor results at accuracy with a file, I have long prided myself on my ability to follow a line with a saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning I made a 140mm (5-1\/2in) cut in a piece of 10mm thick steel plate with a hacksaw to within 0.5mm end to end. Which I will take as a win &#8211; That said it did take me an hour (I had a coffee in between two sessions with the saw) and apparently it&#8217;s character building. I feel that I must have a mighty fine character after that effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other piece (this is the offcut) is destined to be a fixture plate for the mill at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hand-cut-10mm-plate-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hand-cut-10mm-plate-1024x436.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hand-cut-10mm-plate-1024x436.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hand-cut-10mm-plate-300x128.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hand-cut-10mm-plate-768x327.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hand-cut-10mm-plate-1536x654.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hand-cut-10mm-plate-2048x873.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hand-cut-10mm-plate-500x213.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a complete aside, and those with a bandsaw look away and start sniggering now. Despite attaining poor results at accuracy with a file, I have long prided myself on my ability to follow a line with a saw. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7631\">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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-n-tricks"],"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\/7631","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=7631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}