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Trefor took the coaches for a few circuits without getting rained on.

Phil

There, I have posted a video all by myself!

Thanks Andrew and Simon,

it's still not raining so you never know, an engine may yet come out to play with them.

Phil

[/quote] A dry day Phil..... have you moved away from Wales? [/quote] Oh ye of little faith Peter! Before the promised heavenly deluge, due soon, I took a photo opportunity:- IMG_0195.jpeg IMG_0196.jpeg I noticed in the workshop photo from yesterday that the roof of the longer coach was not sitting ...

The last few days have seen lots of finishing touches IMG_3729.jpeg Luggage racks in the long coach being one fiddly task done today. The roofs were varnished underneath and painted with dark grey masonry paint on top (B&Q test pots are good value). chassis painted matt black. The lattice gates ...

The roof structures complete and ready for a couple of coats of varnish underneath.

Phil

Rod,

the one on the right is the finished one. The finish is being applied to the parts before assembly, wood stains and varnish. The roofs of the two new ones will be painted.

Phil

Whilst the glue was drying, thoroughly this time, I worked on handles and wheels.

This morning:-


Phil

Getting there! I glued a narrow spar, which I have spares of, to each of the three repaired ones. Once set (nearly anyway!) I fixed the three repaired spars in the jig with some blu-tack to keep them aligned:- IMG_3679.jpeg Then I spread glue along them and inverted the jig onto the roof and clamped...

I'd have thought that a small dab of white glue in each of those breaks and then careful manipulation should enable it all to go back togther. A length of wood/styrene or whatever of the correct distance from apex to eaves under the centre line then clamp/weight down it to a flat board should see i...

Making the curved roofs. The kit contains a pair of jigs to hold the roof spars in position whilst gluing together. I found this difficult to clamp up and so mounted the ply jig pieces either side of an appropriate width piece of timber which is more solid and easier to clamp to:- IMG_3675.jpeg This...

Thanks Peter,

I think it will probably look better with some sort of edging rather than just the black plastic. Maybe some grey paint would be better than the white, I'll have to look out for some match pots to play with. Having said that, the Cataloy paste is grey!

Phil

Platform experients. The recycled plastic sheet I am using for the platform surface is textured, a bit of a regular geometric pattern but fine from a normal viewing distance. The material does not accept glues, the surface is a bit 'oily'. I wanted to get an edging so have been playing with various ...

I find it easier to do it this way, everything lines up the same every time. This block of wood was used for the seats in the previous coach and the other end of it to do the luggage racks.

Phil

Chair production


Phil

Sorry Rod, buy what from? It was so good to meet you at Llanfair and Welshpool and to be able to put a face to the posts. Phil It was great meeting you to mate. We were having a brilliant chat at Welshpool Station, they even held up the train from going because were chatting so much. That embossed ...

Hi Rod, they are Plateways kits. I did ask Michael Murray who's company it is one time and he said he'd stopped including them for some reason. Easy enough to batch make enough for several vehicles once the machinery is set up. I put the wheels further apart than the kit suggests to make the wheelba...

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the kit does not include spacers for the sides of the chassis frame so I made up my own. This is the guard's van floor from underneath

Phil

Another example where the experience of having previously built one of these coaches suggests an easier way to do it next time! IMG_3640.jpeg Each coach has handrails fashioned from copper wire at each corner. On this coach I drilled the holes by hand in the fully assembled coach (not sure why they ...

Sorry Rod,

buy what from?

It was so good to meet you at Llanfair and Welshpool and to be able to put a face to the posts.

Phil

I found when sanding the bigger components of PDF kits that using an orbital sander clamped upside down in my workmate and rotating the piece across the spinning disc worked best for me. However much I sanded there did seem to be some 'grain' marks and voids in the printed bits.

Phil