Take a Brake.........

[Miamigo259]

I've managed to get a bit more done to the van in the past few days.................

A handbake stand and wheel have been made out of a few bits of scrap plasticard and the circular base of a toy roadsign that came with a tractor/construction set that was given "the treatment" a couple of years back to make it suitable for G Scale use - the moral being, never throw anything away like that as it may come in useful!

A Bachmann figure has been put on the platform next to it as well.

 

[Miamigo259]

A start has been made on the roof as well.................

 

[steven large]

u are doing exellent job on it.
so i ave the same figure as yr!!!!! we cud meet up agian..like twin bro.....lmao...

i think u are modelmaker?...coz i saw yr another photos with a model plane near it --lovely plane!!!!

im modelmaking as well.... wink
did u use plastic sheets? what do u called them? st.....?....what type of glue tht fix it?
coz im doing scatchbuiltin a sw-4 usat dummy diesel before i sell my real sw-4 usat loco soon...thks

 

[vsmith]

OK those pics are enough to get me off my big chair and give my Guards Van a whirl, got my Bachmann Logging caboose on the workbench, where's my razorsaw

 

[Miamigo259]

did u use plastic sheets? what do u called them? st.....?....what type of glue tht fix it?
coz im doing scatchbuiltin a sw-4 usat dummy diesel before i sell my real sw-4 usat loco soon...thks

Body is 2mm white plasticard overlayed with Slaters embossed sheet, with other features made fom 1mm white plasticard.

I was lucky in having a job at one stage of looking after most of the roadside bus timetable displays in town and each new display case came with an A3 sized sheet of 1mm thick white plasticard - which wasn't actually used to mount the displays on as I used to laminate them to keep the water out. Net result of that is I have enough sheets of 1mm plasticard to last me the rest of my life!!

The roof is 1mm plasticard, but needs considerable strengthening due to the curvature of the roof. It should really be a corrugated roof, but I've changed it to a plain one instead.

As regards glue, I use Slaters Mek-Pak or some product called "Maxi-Fix" that came from Poundland. I didn't expect much of it for the price, but it seems to do the trick and nothing stuck together with it has fallen to pieces yet ...............

 

[Alec K]

What a characterful prototype and model with really useful stage-by-stage postings. Many thanks for the details of both! The end result will be a great pleasure to couple to any Latin American goods train: it would be good to know if you have any more equally interesting prototypes in mind, and of course, enough time to produce them. You've given me enough encouragement to post a picture of the Redlake China Clay Tramway workers' coach I've just scratchbuilt - it's awaiting transfers at the moment so forgive the delay.

Great stuff.

 

[Miamigo259]

The roof is now finished and awaits painting.

The two pictures below show the bracing needed underneath to give it some strength. As well as the plasticard formers to form the curved shape of the roof, I used a couple of lengths of OO scale flat bottom rail stuck underneath the edges to provide some longditudinal strength .

A chimney was made out of some odd pieces of plasticard and fixed to the roof. A couple of rain strips still need to be fixed to the roof before it is painted.

Jobs remaining are mainly painting related, although I still need to make some of the red painted "rings on sticks" which can be seen fixed to the uprights at the end of the van in the prototype photo. I take it these are end of train markers for daytime use....

I might actually have it all finished off within the next week!!

 

[Miamigo259]

Hooray, it's finished!!

Now I can get on with all the other jobs that need doing...........(not to mention produce a suitable loco to pull the train....)

I was going to take some photos of it outside in natural daylight, but as it is persisting down at the moment, that will have to wait.

A couple of views of the finished item are posted below. I made the "end of train" indicators from a couple of washers and some bent wire. They are a bit oversized, but who is going to worry..
The running numbers came from the spare transfer box and don't mean anything. I think they were off a 1/72 Czech aircraft kit, but are a handy size for use on G Scale rolling stock!

 

[vsmith]

Wow that really came out great, I need to get mine in shape, started cutting.

 

[Miamigo259]

As the sun was actually shining today, I managed to get a few photos out in the garden showing the finished article in natural light..........

 

[Miamigo259]

I've now got a rake of 3 wagons plus the brake van, so all I need to do now is come up with a suitable locomotive to pull the train!

 

[Miamigo259]

The three wagons in the train are

1. The converted NQ box van, as previously dealt with on the "Chinese Surgery" thread.

2. A Hartland wooden gondola wagon, suitably painted and fitted with centre buffers.

3. An old Bachmann wooden gondola, bought for all of £3 a few years back off a secondhand stall. This has spent about 18 months sitting in all weathers in the garden, until I decided to convert it for use in this rake. All handrails were removed, centre buffers added and a new handbrake wheel fixed to the underframe.