Yorky D's Küchentisch - North Eastern - Boing! said the pantograph...

[Yorkshire Dave]

I intend to install lighting in the mess hut which means it must be furnished....

Being lazy I searched around the t'interweb for 1:43 scale furniture - could I find any..... no. So I trawled around for 1:48 scale furninture and bingo...

I found these from a UK supplier who makes dolls house furniture in 1:12, 1:24 and low and behold 1:48.

So I purchased these...



They are laser cut ply and card kits. I started with the kitchen sink and table. Being small and rather delicate they take some time and unlike Ikea there are no screws left over .









There are some item I will have to make namely steel lockers, coat hook racks, stove and Hugh Rinal from the Valleys....

Edited to include the last image through the window.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Several hours at the workbench today and not much to show for it....... a dining table, 3 dining chairs, 4 benches and a gas cooker.

This miniature furniture almost takes as long as the full size stuff to build .

The three dining chairs appear low as they yet to have their cushioned seats made and I also added some fine mesh in the grill pan.




And of course most of it won't be seen.....

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

..... and by the way this television screen is not flat either.

The kit included a piece of formed clear acrylic! A bit difficult to photograph though.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Dave, all this is just fabulously silly - and I LOVE IT!!!

I must say though, that is a terribly good picture for a set without a huge great 405 lines aerial? Ah no, just noticed; you've got a colour test card on there!

Now if you had a wobbly, fuzzy shot of Fireball XL5 taking off....

Alas it's a 625 line set.

Of the Sylvia and Gerry Anderson productions I was brought up on Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.

Once you've sorted the aerial, I think the door hinges will need attention as we want doors that open and close.

Well, lets take a look....

There's obviously something going on....


Up to the door...

Slightly ajar....

And open.... the 625 line set top aerial is made up from a piece of bent up nickel silver wire and a blob of solder then painted cream.

The door hinges are made up from bent wire as described by Pete in the Love Lane thread.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

In addition to the furniture already built.....

......a urinal was constructed from styrene sheet and the water flush pipe made up from brass - far right. Cushions for the dining chairs were made up from Milliput and I also found a deckchair in my 1:48 military parts box - which has been duly painted.

Oh, and a beer mat stuffed under one table leg.....



Lockers were made up from styrene sheet and the louvres are from Archer decals - not only for US diesels but other applications as well!

The inside of the toilet cubicle wall received it's necessary appendage.

The pan and cistern.

And the sink.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Having installed the furniture some illumination was required and I was pondering how to achieve this without kilometers of wire and keeping the roof removable.

So I came up with this...

Having already threaded the wires through the cavity wall I cut some 2mm o/d brass tube and soldered this to the wires to create sockets. A 2mm drill was pass down the cavity wall to create the location points for the sockets.


Here the sockets have been installed held in with a drop of araldite.

The plug were made up from brass tube, wire and a piece of scrap to form an anchor and soldering point for the lighting bus. I also cut two rebates in the underside of the roof to hold the anchors.

Here the plugs have been installed, again, held in with araldite and the tops cut flush with the top of the roof. I also cut four pieces of vero board for mounting on the underside of the roof.

This is the idea. The pins were trimmed to ensure the roof could be slid on under the chimney capping and pushed home.

The four pieces of vero board were glued to the underside of the roof and a lighting bus made up from brass wire. The 3v SMDs (surface mount diodes) are wired in series. Channels were cut (circled) to route the wire over the interior walls.

Before reaching this point I had started on the roof top which is why you can see the styrene through the bottom roof mounting holes.

Install the roof and add some power.... the lights are on but nobody's at home.

These are supposed to be warm white LEDs and at first I was a bit disappointed as I would have preferred the filament bulb glow. However, I have grown to like these as they remind me of the ring fluorescent tubes my grandparents used to have in their dining room.




Yep, no-ones home...



And the doh! moment - I forgot to take photos of the construction of the roof top. The concrete roof has a slight apex and to create this I glued a strip of styrene down the centre of the roof and added two styrene panels. The roof is currently in grey primer.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Over the last few weeks I've been faffing around with the Alphagraphix KESR ex-LSWR royal saloon as an exercise to regain my skills with brass kits.

Construction is similar to the SECR (ex-LCDR) 6w brake composite I built earlier.





This is the end with the brake tell-tales. I made an absolute pigs ear of the folding of the ends to create the outward and return curves so In the end I made them up from Milliput and sanded them to match the profile at the end of the coach. As a result of all this I lost the end panel beading so I made some up from thin brass and scarfed these into ends.


The underside using Connoisseur coach suspension units rather than the rocking W iron compensation unit provided in the kit. And like the LCDR coach I used the Ragstone axleboxes and springs sweated to brass W irons. There's still more to do here such as the brakes and associated rodding.
Vacuum and steam heat pipes are from Connoisseur and the couplers from CPL.

As befits a royal saloon the buffers have been polished.

The interior will be the next big job on this vehicle.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Not being able to muster up the enthusiasm to complete the other stalled projects I started messing about with the Furness Wagon Co battery shunter kit I purchased a few years ago.

The chassis is a relatively simple fold up box affair and rather than used the fixed bearings I decided to use 4mm Alan Gibson hornblocks. The chassis was cut to accept these and I also found a London Road Models 1:38 gearbox in my 'not to be thrown away' spares tub. This was all assembled and the ensemble runs sweetly. It drives on one axle and if it can shift a wagon or two then I'm happy.





The wagon sill was made up, again a relatively simple affair.

The kit included two of these - the battery bodies and after initially glueing these to the sill I thought I could do better so.....

I made up four side pieces, two outer ends from scrap nickel silver etch and two inner bulkheads from scrap brass etch to create a support onto which I can apply a wood veneer.

However, instead of wood veneer I wondered if the iron-on wood veneer used for facing shelves would work. So I cut some into into smaller pieces and - yes you've guessed it - ironed them onto the nickel silver sides and ends. Time will only tell how long the glue will last.

The planks were scribed with a scrawker and this shows the effect. The right hand side has been stained with a dilute black wash.





There still plenty to do such as the body ironwork, dummy traction motor casings, sandboxes, buffers, couplers, etc, etc, etc.....

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

The final bits of silliness....

Coat hangers and jacket....


Stove, buckets of coal and folded jacket on table....

..... before finally making and adding the rainwater goods, waste and stench pipes.

Front. The gutters were made up from copper tube sawn down the centre and the down pipes from 2mm brass rod. The stench and toilet outlet pipes are made from 2.4mm copper tube. The fittings are from Modelu.



Rear. The cable is for lighting. The roof is slightly bowed and this will be addressed.

The kitchen and toilet sink waste pipes are from 1mm brass and a cornice was made up around the drain.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

I've done some tidying up on the pipework by adding the section joints to the waste, stench and to the top of the downpipes. Joints have also been added to the guttering.

The LT style signs are my photographs re-scaled and printed on glossy photographic paper.





......and some appropriate graffiti applied to the wall leaving no doubt as to who are welcome. Way back in the 1980s I observed this chalked by the mess room door at the end of the platform at Wembley Park station. So so I just had to reproduce it.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Rather than finish the other projects on the bench I started this for my proposed 1967-1969 LT layout with the state of play thus far.



It's a French styrene kit of a Mk III Mini introduced in 1969 and naturally the steering wheel and instrument panel are on the wrong side.


A bit of surgery and the steering column and instrument panel are now corrected for the UK. I also cut out the nearside door as it is intended to have the car parked with the door open. As part of the building process I flattened the wheels slightly and rounded the bottom of the tyres slightly to give the impression of weight - and under under inflated by the looks of things. I could not manage the slight tyre bulge though.


And the state of play so far.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Done a bit more work tonight...... backdating the Mk III to a Mk II.

Mainly lowering the body on the floor pan to reduce the gaps in the wheel arches which involved a lot of sanding of the inner floor, and the top of the dashboard to reduce it's height.

In addition the side repeater indicator lights were removed and a curve cut into the bottom of the square corner of the door.



The door is a bit flimsy at the moment.


The bottom of the door has now been curved to match the Mk II door and a fillet installed in the frame corner on the body.


A new steering column was made up from brass wire with the single stalk.


The inner door panels cut out and the wire door handles.... and yes I did take a 0.5mm drill to the exhaust pipe.

Still yet to make the door hinges, speedo binnacle, foot pedals, wing mirrors and alter the seat pattern design.....

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Fun cars to drive and easy to service requiring very few special tools and no electronic diagnostic equipment.

I've often thought of getting an earlier car with little or no electronics. Less to go wrong and fault finding done by listening and feel.

Onwards with the model..... I have added the bumpers; headlight surrounds; rear light clusters; door hinges from styrene and shaped; fuel tank cap from a filed pinhead and the boot handle from a Laurie Griffin BR carriage door handle filed down a bit.

As Overseer has alluded to earlier this kit captures the look of a Mini better than the die cast models on offer.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

And some more of the completed Intentio 1950s mess hut taken in the sun

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

A bit more progress - the Mini has received it paint scheme - Ivory White.... the chrome is ATSF silver for the time being.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Whilst my own car was in t'garage for it's MOT I carried on with this today..... and repainted a few more figures for the late 60's scene.




And yes .... it is an August 1968 tax disc.



Hello boys....

Still need to add some etched windscreen wipers when I find them....

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

No, it's nothing to do with Westminster B**x*t farces which are close to outrunning Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap.

Its.....


The kit was collected from my local sorting office this morning..... More will follow on Yorky D's LT channel...

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

In case you've missed it, there was a partial lunar eclipse tonight.

Managed to capture these with a 70mm lens....



And a bit closer


And nearly over

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Remember the 1960's Leeds 'modern' station with it's draughty cattle shed.....?

Leeds station concourse is now undergoing a rebuild and it has revealed some of the original 1960's bright orange mosaic tiles (taken on mobile phone on way home from work).

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

This was a re-powering exercise for the BEL2 battery loco.

The 4mm gearbox driving one axle resulted in the loco having insufficient grunt to haul more than one light wagon and cold not haul a kit built brass van.

Having success with the Finney7 Power and remote 13:1 gearboxes in the Met Bo-Bo my thoughts turned to using these in the BEL2 loco. However, it has a 8' (56mm) wheelbase which is too short to use a CV joint to join the two gearboxes.

Steph Dale and myself were chatting about powering short wheelbase truck/bogies and realised it can be done using the Weaver half spline/shaft method.

So, I purchased Finney7 Power and Remote gearboxes and a Taff Vake 1525 motor to try this out .

The motor was mounted in the vice using the shaft and some blu-tac was stuck around the bearing of the shaft which was going to be halved along some of it's length to create a half moon shape. The shaft was carefully ground down using a slitting disc in a Proxxon mini drill.



This is after the motor shaft and gearbox shaft have been ground down.


And the union - here I used a clear tube from a paintbrush to show alignment.

The two gearboxes were made up as per the instructions and here is the joint between the motor and remote gearbox. Neoprene tube has been used here for illustration. The Slaters 1/8'' wagon wheel axles between the hornblocks were sleeved to 3/16'' with brass tube.

The view from above - a piece of 2mm I/D tube has now replaced the neoprene tube.

The view from below

Broadside to show the motor just peeks below the frame. Inside it sits level with the floor and a slightly raised floor will be required to clear the motor as the chassis is fully compensated. Mmmm looks like I'll have to slot the body/chassis mounting holes to shift the wheel centres to the left a tad.

Remote gearbox end.

Power gearbox end