New skips for the Long Dream Line quarry

[UKSGR]

I know lots of people have the binnie skips but here is my offering
Jonny brings the new (If that's new...) skips along for first use

A close up

All loaded to go

Close up of just the skip

That's my offering. I hope to get some more for a bigger rake

 

[stockers]

Neat - I likes them.

 

[hornbeam]

are they scratch built? very nice!

 

[Cyclone]

They're nice. How have you built them.

 

[ge_rik]

Paul

I see you've replaced the wheels in the kits with metal ones - are they from IP Engineering?

Rik

 

[UKSGR]

They are Peter Binnie kits with IP wheels on longer axles. The painting is red oxide spray, then a red and black acrylic wash/splatter and rust is iron filings mixed with PVA/water and left out side for a few days. The rust is still "maturing" before I give them a coat of matt varnish. If I get some more then I'm going to try to bash them about a bit with the blow torch type soldering iron. I reckon a quick blast with that and dent to suit

 

[dunnyrail]

SGR, iIread your proposal to dent the wagons with interest. I did this many years back with some LGB versions of these. It was very succesful (sadly they have been sold so cannot post any pics) but I respectfully suggest that you treat the Binnies with extreme caution, if memory serves the plastic is a lot thiner. So gently gently.

My way was to hold the iron as close to the edge as possible without touching it, when the plastic became pliable I used a skrewdriver to wedge bangs and scrapes into the pliable plastic. Hope this helps and good luck.

JonD

 

[UKSGR]

Thanks for all the comments.
One other thing to remember with these skips is that the original axles are 3mm and the IP axles are1/8". This means new axles for the IP wheels as the axles are too short and the journals need drilling out. I used 3.5mm and it seemed to work OK.
Need some more now