Re: Make do and Mend - with multiple girders
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 5:42 pm
Having constructed 12 girders, and needing some time to think about the representation of the trough girder sitting above the trusses, and also needing a break from wiring (which I am not good at making neat and tidy!), I have worked on a little project with yet another cattle wagon.
One can buy the Oxford Models LNER wagon attempting to represent Dia 39 for much less than the equivalent (but more accurate) Parkside kit. Having an Oxford version in stock, I processed it as below.
I had already used modified Parkside kits to represent Dia 122 with 10' wheelbase, so this one represents a Dia 132 as illustrated on Mr Banks most useful website ..... here... You need to scroll about half way down the page to see this particular vehicle.
(Apologies for the out-of-scale screw coupling. It was only posed for the picture before the Bachmann style tension lock couplings were re-fitted. It does look better without it but I was too lazy to re-take the photograph)
It is interesting that the diagonal struts are only re-inforced at the bottom end on this vehicle. (It also of course meant less work!) The additional plates on Dia 122 are modelled on the bottom of page 16 of this thread.
The Oxford model is held together by the buffers, which are best pushed out from the inside. The Oxford plastic is quite tough and needs careful cutting. It does join with Plastic Weld, but it needs quite a lot of the solvent. You will see the basic method from the pictures. The internal re-inforcement has to be set in from the sides, and it would have been easier of I had set it in from the ends as well. Do remember to paint the white plastic black before re-assembly, otherwise it shows rather badly through the slotted planks. (As you will realise I forgot this!) I used the plastic sections I had to hand. Leaving the trough in the middle does allow a convenient location for weights.
The rectification of the 'handed' sides takes about 40 minutes. The rebuilding of the underframe was disrupted by my dropping some of the brake rigging on the floor and then wasting hours searching before making the replacements. (The 'new' railway room has a hard laminate floor and small parts bounce and skitter away like mad things.)
I also spent some time on updating the axleboxes to represent the cast steel versions. They looked rather crude 'in the plastic', but now they are trimmed and painted I'm not unhappy with them.
This particular vehicle (in Mr Banks' picture) has one set of three-hole wheels and one of split-spoke. The Oxford split-spoke seem to look quite nice and run reliably, however, they have a longer axle than every other wheelset I have in stock. Replacing one wheelset would have meant more surgery than I wanted to carry out, so I will have to assume that that particular change happened after 1947!
One can buy the Oxford Models LNER wagon attempting to represent Dia 39 for much less than the equivalent (but more accurate) Parkside kit. Having an Oxford version in stock, I processed it as below.
I had already used modified Parkside kits to represent Dia 122 with 10' wheelbase, so this one represents a Dia 132 as illustrated on Mr Banks most useful website ..... here... You need to scroll about half way down the page to see this particular vehicle.
(Apologies for the out-of-scale screw coupling. It was only posed for the picture before the Bachmann style tension lock couplings were re-fitted. It does look better without it but I was too lazy to re-take the photograph)
It is interesting that the diagonal struts are only re-inforced at the bottom end on this vehicle. (It also of course meant less work!) The additional plates on Dia 122 are modelled on the bottom of page 16 of this thread.
The Oxford model is held together by the buffers, which are best pushed out from the inside. The Oxford plastic is quite tough and needs careful cutting. It does join with Plastic Weld, but it needs quite a lot of the solvent. You will see the basic method from the pictures. The internal re-inforcement has to be set in from the sides, and it would have been easier of I had set it in from the ends as well. Do remember to paint the white plastic black before re-assembly, otherwise it shows rather badly through the slotted planks. (As you will realise I forgot this!) I used the plastic sections I had to hand. Leaving the trough in the middle does allow a convenient location for weights.
The rectification of the 'handed' sides takes about 40 minutes. The rebuilding of the underframe was disrupted by my dropping some of the brake rigging on the floor and then wasting hours searching before making the replacements. (The 'new' railway room has a hard laminate floor and small parts bounce and skitter away like mad things.)
I also spent some time on updating the axleboxes to represent the cast steel versions. They looked rather crude 'in the plastic', but now they are trimmed and painted I'm not unhappy with them.
This particular vehicle (in Mr Banks' picture) has one set of three-hole wheels and one of split-spoke. The Oxford split-spoke seem to look quite nice and run reliably, however, they have a longer axle than every other wheelset I have in stock. Replacing one wheelset would have meant more surgery than I wanted to carry out, so I will have to assume that that particular change happened after 1947!