Knowing it can be done, and having a pointer as to how, is 90% of the battle. Thats exactly how your Deltang expertise helped me.ge_rik:117613 wrote:
I'm afraid my fingers become thumbs when I try doing the fiddly bits - but I'm willing to have another go after reading your descriptions.
Rik
Styrene sheet moulding - Quintus build - FINISHED
Octavius finally finished
The nameplates arrived from NarrowPlanet a few days ago and Octavius is now finally finished, apart from some necessary tweaking of the soundcard.
Philip
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Thanks chaps.Peter Butler:119059 wrote: Lots of nice detail and lining.... (where did that come from?)
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Peter,
The lining was DIY waterslide. I used Draftsight ( which is a freebie Autocad lookalike and very good) to draw a simple outline of the cabside, ends and tank side. Then drew the lining and fiddled about with it until I got it looking about right - did several versions with the lining at different line thicknesses and configurations until I was happy. Then laser printed it onto white waterslide decal paper ( black central line and green outer line to edge the white. The difficult bit was then cutting round it all, but a ruler, pointed scalpel and care did the job. Most of it is straight lines, so only the curved corners are dicey.
Philip
A very nice build, and a lovely looking loco painting our the cranks worked well, I had to zoom in to see if they were still there, very cool
Jon
Have fun steaming
Now put the kettle on....sit back and browse my webpage http://fwpl.webs.com/
Have fun steaming
Now put the kettle on....sit back and browse my webpage http://fwpl.webs.com/
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