Daves C & W Works

[Dave]

Ok D10C roof, it seems you are all waiting for it.

I started with the fans.
A bit of roof offcut with wet & dry stuck to it was used as a former for the underside of the fans.
Next a piece of plastic card with a temp handle was sanded to shape.

[Dave]

Pic 60 - The fan blank (60 thou thick) is filed/sanded to shape top and bottom, and then the blank was divided into 3 and a centre line marked.
Pic 61 - The blank is cut into 3 fans and the indents cut, the fan is mounted on it's base plate.
Pic 62 - Fan body drilled to take some 0.8mm nickle silver wire, this is to allow easy fixing to the roof.
Pic 63 - The roof was marked up on the inside for the torpedo vent locations, fans fillers etc and drilled, lable board holders fixed.
Note, at this time you have to decide how many torpedos you install, for pre 1928 there is an additional one at the lobby end (south end), mine does not have it, you can see a mark on the roof where it would have been.

[davidwest]

You made those vent's look surprisingly easy

[Dave]

The fans fitted to the roof, super glued from the the underside around the n/s rod.

[MikeTrice]

I do like the fact that you have included the base plates on those vents. It will have the added benefit of providing daylight under the ends as on the prototype.

[Dave]

David, Just fiddly, they are not as difficult as some of the other bits, and yes Mike there is daylight under, and now for fans for Mike.

The side baffles were made from 10thou Evergreen strip

[MikeTrice]

You are not drilling the little holes in the end plates then ?

[Blink Bonny]

Cor!

[Dave]

Ha you jest Mike...but I did think about it.

The cowls are now as complete as I can be bothered, I started to add the small angles but after fixing the base I stopped far to much work for littke return.

The problem was fixing the baffles so they did not drop off, first lot I used plastic weld, they fell off with handling, made some more, these were stick with super glue with a 1mm thick card strip to get the distance correct from the cowl. If I/when I do some more for my buffet car I will fix them with n/s wire like the cowls/fans.

[MikeTrice]

Ha you jest Mike...but I did think about it.

For those of you not in the know the end plates of the main vent are perforated which would have been a lifetime's work trying to drill them out in 4mm scale, hence my leg pull. Either way they look the part.

I always assumed one would use brass angle to make the end baffles and superglue them to the ali roof. The downside is they should not be 90 degrees. The other alternative is to extend the base plate into a cross shape so that it protrudes beyond the end plates and glue the baffles to that.

[Dave]

Mike...couple of good ideas there.

I did think of brass but mine is too thick.
ps. my plastic angles are vertical too......ahhhhhhhhh

Anyway onwards and downwards

The first vent pipe fitted, with small turned up end as per prototype.

[MikeTrice]

ps. my plastic angles are vertical too......ahhhhhhhhh

Vertical is good, they should be.

[Dave]

The vent pipe has a cover, this was made from some brass tube filed to a half round and mounted in some 10tho strip.

[Dave]

Corridor tank fillers were made from brass rod and bits of circular plastic collars to suit, they are only a representation .

Toilet tank filler much the same, but I added the chain loop to the top with 5amp fuse wire, as Mike T said he'd never seen it modeled. I will make the chain and connecting ring.

Next came the toilet cistern vent, this is a strange shape, bent at the end. I made it from 0.4 n/s wire with 0.35 dia plastic rod drilled down the centre and cut to form a flat. glued to some 10tho strip to represent the pipe clips, the pic shows this better than my discription.

[Dave]

Filler and vent fixed.
2 oven vents (in black) added.
Oven vent cover made from brass shim bent round a suitably sized drill, vent pipe cover will be remade this way as I'm not happy with it, second one's are always better.