duckets done

And here are the duckets added after fun and games getting them to bend and adhere once bent. A little bit of filler was required to hide a couple of areas where the plywood ended up cracking whilst I was trying to bend it! I've also ordered some sanding sealer (White) required to finish the roof. Now to source the correct grab handles...

curly!

Well much progress tonight. The overlays went on easily with superglue, the doors requiring an extra lamination. Then the central roof bars were added and the roof forming strips laid on with masking tape strips to form the curly roof. The bogies and chopper couplings (accucraft) were then added, the latter retained with 10ba nuts/bolts.

Finally, having checked photos of the real thing, I binned the truss rods in the kit (far too chunky and square section) and made some better circular section ones from wire myself.

Now I need to add kleenex tissues to the roof (yes really) and attach the duckets. This requires soaking thin plywood in hot water to shape it - ummm sounds fiddly! My practice attempt was ok but the top of the ducket has a very tight bend to form Might be easier in brass, but then I would still have to add the plywood overlay to that. Thinking cap on...!

brakes off...

As mentioned on my other (009) blog, I have decided to spend more of my time on garden railway things for a while. Thus there have been further earthworks in the garden, plans created for a method of tracklaying and work restarting on the de winton. Alongside this I have started work on my ip engineering kit for the fr's brake van no.1 aka the "curly roofed van".

Here is the current state of construction - sides, ends and floor all glued together and roof supports glued in (the elastic bands are to hold it all square whilst it dries). Next come the beautiful overlays all made from laser cut plywood. Very impressive.

The bogies are already complete too.