Giles' misc. Work bench.

simond

simond

Western Thunderer
Presuming we are avoiding the Exorcist and rotating heads, I can imagine a bit of thick-ish fishing line as a flexible torsion rod.

I can also imagine an owl’s head in 7mm. About 1-1.5mm high, and 1-2mm wide.

and relax… the improbability of anyone actually noticing it without it (assuming it is “owl silent”) being pointed out ensures that it’s really not worth the stress/effort. And anyway, owls are out at night. It’ll be dark!
 
simond

simond

Western Thunderer
Maybe, but you're going to be better off modelling a seagull…

As an aside, when I worked in France, we had an Italian director, whom I nicknamed “La mouette”. Living on the coast , I’m quite fond of seagulls, despite their wayward habits. The lads asked why I called him that. I responded “Il arrive, il crie, il shie partout, et il se fout”. (Google translate might not give the full flavour of this. :))

shall we say, “the name stuck”…




I do wonder what my staff call me :)
 
Rob R

Rob R

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simond said:
Maybe, but you're going to be better off modelling a seagull…

As an aside, when I worked in France, we had an Italian director, whom I nicknamed “La mouette”. Living on the coast , I’m quite fond of seagulls, despite their wayward habits. The lads asked why I called him that. I responded “Il arrive, il crie, il shie partout, et il se fout”. (Google translate might not give the full flavour of this. :))

shall we say, “the name stuck”…




I do wonder what my staff call me :)
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Google translate is spot on.:thumbs:
Describes quite a few of my managers over the years........

Apologies to Giles for drifting even further off topic.
 
Giles

Giles

Western Thunderer
I like it.......

Driver is fully installed, however, I don't have a spare knobs on my Tx22x controller, so he is allocated to a button on the moment. This means the motion is instantaneous, which is unacceptable. I have therefore ordered an Rx601 receiver from Micron. These are his own replacement Receivers for the now unavailable Deltang ones (the world's supply of the chips they relied on had finally dried up). Although they are twice the size of the Rx41s, at 21x11mm, they are much more sophisticated and have on-board servo reverse, servo-slow, ESC acceleration and de-acceleration to name some of the attributes. They are also a similar price to the old Deltangs. This means I can put the head onto a three position switch, with a servo slow - probably of half a second. It also frees up the old Rx41 for a smaller model.....

https://flic.kr/p/2pPzoHe
 
Giles

Giles

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Going back to the 16mm scale Tattoo, which is an exercise in enlarging the 7mm print (with adjustments) I did a while back.

The backhead is fully printed and has come out well

https://flic.kr/p/2pPQvtv

And the rest is coming on - althou at this size the footplate has been taken off the print and is nickel-silver, as will be the back-sheet.
Cylinders are there, with reverser and a few other bits and bobs. The colour will be fine when weathered (aged/broken down depending on profession...)

https://flic.kr/p/2pPWRc3

As a reminder, there is a steam unit (mister) built into this. Drive will be an N30 gearmotor driving through bevel gears.
 
Giles

Giles

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Hi Mark, Contact Paul Martin at EDM models - he's got my design to produce them in 7mm, together with the wooden side tippers ( he's got bigger and better printers than me!)
 
Giles

Giles

Western Thunderer
Gauge glass now showing half a glass...

https://flic.kr/p/2pR9aKP

Frames are on their way. I'm doing these the old fashioned way - by hand, not machine (except for drilling, obviously). Rivets will be soft soldered in as they are non- functional. Fortunately I remembered I had a rarely used optical centre punch which helped enormously in getting the holes in the right place consistently!

https://flic.kr/p/2pQY95T
 
Giles

Giles

Western Thunderer
The Chassis is coming on. I bought some Slaters wheels and cut the centres out, replacing them with my own printed ones.

https://flic.kr/p/2pVCfEb

Springs and horn blocks are all done and will go in when all soldering is complete!

https://flic.kr/p/2pVwx9p

Chassis is assembled with soldered-in rivets (3/64") . The pony truck is complete, and like it's 7mm baby sister is equipped with a ball joint at the front end which solves all articulation problems. One of the benefits of printing is that such things are easy to do.

https://flic.kr/p/2pVHw7Y
 
simond

simond

Western Thunderer
Giles said:
Gauge glass now showing half a glass...

https://flic.kr/p/2pR9aKP

Frames are on their way. I'm doing these the old fashioned way - by hand, not machine (except for drilling, obviously). Rivets will be soft soldered in as they are non- functional. Fortunately I remembered I had a rarely used optical centre punch which helped enormously in getting the holes in the right place consistently!

https://flic.kr/p/2pQY95T
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Gauge glass is showing…. some rare talent.
 
Giles

Giles

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Cranks are printed. I've printed the holes slighty undersize, and I need to make a jig so I can drill them (all the same). Strength is not a problem with these, though shall make sure I get a good bond (Devcon with a talc filler). I shall try the rods. I used the printed rods on the 7mm one, and much to my surprise they were fine, so I will cautiously use these. I can always replace them with fabricated ones. I do believe in experimenting, with forethought .....
My bevel gears have turned up, and very nice they are - indeed, ideal. However, I won't get a chance to fit them till next week.

https://flic.kr/p/2pVTZLF
 
Giles

Giles

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We have wheels ( and slide bars - but not in this pic...)

https://flic.kr/p/2pWTBRY

I suspect that the full size Tattoo did not have side control springing on the pony truck - however, the points on Nettlebed Lime are sufficiently tight that I need it. The pony truck and stretcher have therefore been reworked to provide it. Whether it is the right amount, only time will tell at this point!
 
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