O-EM-OO9 workbench - 3dp brake van

[AJC]

Nicely done - one thing you might like to consider with those is to beef up the door hinges: the Cambrian mouldings are rather undernourished in that area and it makes a surprising visual difference. Just a couple of cubes of 30 thou' or thereabouts should do it.

Adam

 

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Thanks Adam, I was treating these as runners really, to be honest all my wagons are runners, not warranting much detail, and designed to be made quickly. So I won't need them up I think. But you are right, the hinges are undernourished!
Cheers
Tony

 

[76043]

I've finally got my DCC-EX gubbins in a proper case, which means no more mucking about with temporary connections, I settled on the 2.5mm DC sockets to assist with connecting quickly. M and P are the main and programming outputs with power in above.

Tony

 

[76043]

Okay, so 009 is back on the bench in DCC form. It's all Lais, decoder and stay alive and actually runs nicely. Shame I can't as yet work out how to program a decoder, all my locos are currently CV3.
Tony

 

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So I took this...



Stripped off the paint and decided it needed being up to date compared to my Bachmann Baldwin. It also needed some UK specific details such as lamp brackets. So extra handrails all round seems to be appropriate, plus removing the rear steps as there's no reason to climb on the rear. Windows also altered. White primer for the BR warning yellow.
Tony

 

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The narrow gauge adventure continues. Roco van is being Anglicised, or at least made fit for running on BR narrow gauge tracks.

The Chivers van kit is a delight, no flash to speak of and very nice to put together.

Both will have the vacuum brake fitted.
Tony

 

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The Roco bogie van is well on its way, hopefully a bit more Anglicised now, air brake cylinders and pipework gone, replaced with vacuum of sorts and handbrakes. Various details such as hooks and destination clips gone too. Bogies changed to archbar simply because I 'lost' one trying to cast more of them back in the 90's when I had access to professional resin casting kit. Couplings are Dapol fixed Kadee type.

From this originally. (Image courtesy: Hattons)


To this:



Tony

 

[76043]

Chivers van is ready for painting into BR bauxite when the warm weather comes. It sits lower on the bogies to match L&B stock and has had the visual bits of the vacuum brake fitted. The roof is screwed on, which is my preferred method and this allows some car weights to be added after painting. The bogies have brass bearing and metal axle wheels and runs nicely as a result. The Kadee style couplings work well attached to the body on 12" radius reverse curves.
Tony

 

[76043]

Glad to see WT back up, I had to descend to RMweb to find out what was up. Thank you @adrian for fixing it.

So the narrow van business has now extended to 3d printing.





Lovely looking details, very smooth prints on the flat areas and ever so slight striations on the curved roof. But having removed all the parts from the base I have found the two chassis sections bowed, but bowed in opposite directions so theoretically they can be glued together and the bow is cancelled.

But I wonder if warm water might do the trick? I have no clue about the origins of the resin.
Cheers
Tony

 

[simond]

I wonder if warm water might do the trick?

I'd not be optimistic, but you can try, it's not going to make it worse!

I have used FNG to print soldering jigs, which seem to withstand multiple attacks of the hot stick, so...

 

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Thanks @simond . I assume this resin material doesn't go like Dapol injection moulded plastic does and simply change into another shape that resembles jelly?

I did a lot of resin casting in the 90's professionally which was able to be bent ok, but this is new to me.

I'll give it a go with the warm water...
Tony