Yorky D's Küchentisch - Purists look away now.....

Peter Insole

Western Thunderer
Thank you Dave for the brilliant lighting connection idea... hopefully a great help for the Love Lane electricians that I have been annoying by frequently nagging !

I always maintain that when the theatre lights are dimmed, all that hard work, sometimes grinding - and not to mention the eyestrain either - becomes so utterly worth the effort !!

Lovely stuff !

Pete.
 

adrian

Flying Squad
This year's Le Tour de Yorkshire came my way again today - making their way up Goose Eye Brow
:thumbs: :thumbs: Watched with interest today and I thought I saw your gaff fleetingly on the TV. Know the area well - spotted them going past my sister's place in Sutton in Craven and past where we used to live in Station Road, Crosshills. Also lived in Otley so recognised the "Cote de" Chevin as well. To top it all a British winner of the tour. :thumbs:
 

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Got off the train last week and this was shunting L&Y carriages for a film shoot in the KVWR platforms.

Fig 10.jpg
And on my neighbour's workbench were these items he had just painted. This is the chap from whom I picked up my painting techniques.

In 20mm scale some AB Figures WWII German infantry.
Fig 1.jpg
Fig 2.jpg
Fig 3.jpg
Fig 4.jpg

And in 1/285 scale a Russian tank with riders. Fig 5.jpg
 
Royal Saloon

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
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.

RS 01.jpg

RS 02.jpg

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.
RS 03.jpg

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. RS 04.jpg

As befits a royal saloon the buffers have been polished. RS 05.jpg

The interior will be the next big job on this vehicle.
 
BEL 2

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
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.

BEL2 01.jpg
BEL2 02.jpg
BEL2 03.jpg

The wagon sill was made up, again a relatively simple affair. BEL2 04.jpg

The kit included two of these - the battery bodies and after initially glueing these to the sill I thought I could do better so.....BEL2 05.jpg

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.BEL2 06.jpg

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.

BEL2 07.jpg

BEL2 08.jpg

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

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
The final bits of silliness....

Coat hangers and jacket....
Mess 86.jpg

Stove, buckets of coal and folded jacket on table....Mess 87.jpg

..... 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.

Mess 88.jpg

Rear. The cable is for lighting. The roof is slightly bowed and this will be addressed.Mess 89.jpg

The kitchen and toilet sink waste pipes are from 1mm brass and a cornice was made up around the drain. Mess 90.jpg
 
Mess Hut

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
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.

Mess 91.jpg
Mess 92.jpg
Mess 93.jpg

......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.
Mess 94.jpg
 
Mini

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
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.

Mini 01.jpg

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.
Mini 02.jpg

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.
Mini 03.jpg

And the state of play so far.
Mini 04.jpg
 

adrian

Flying Squad
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.
Very nice - although I can't claim to be an expert in Mini's I suspect it's a more MkIV post '80s in it's current state. MkIII's I believe all had the oval centre speedo binnacle - the clubman dials behind the steering wheel were introduced in the MKIV from about 1980. Also I don't think the MkIII's had the little side indicator on the front wing (which is in the wrong place anyway!).
 

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Thanks for the pointers Adrian, a 1980's Mini is a bit too late for me!

I'll have to study some photos to see what I can do to make sure it's a 1969 Mk III. At least being styrene it's easy to manipulate (so says I...:eek:).

Watch this space as they say.
 

Heather Kay

Western Thunderer
While we're picking at Minis, don’t forget before the Clubman era facelift MkIII (enough of a change, apparently, to warrant a new type designation at the factory) the doors had external hinges and sliding front windows.

I’ve got my anorak, and I’m heading for the exit… ;)
 

adrian

Flying Squad
I'll have to study some photos to see what I can do to make sure it's a 1969 Mk III. At least being styrene it's easy to manipulate (so says I...:eek:).
The problem with studying the photos is that many Mini enthusiasts will take a later model and make them faux MkII or MkIII so make sure any photos are real period photos - not just what someone claims to be a MkII or MkIII mini. I don't think there were that many changes to be honest but you know what enthusiasts are like for the finer details :mad: . I joined the Mini Cooper register and they take Mini version identification very very seriously - a recent issue of the magazine questioned the authenticity of a vehicle because the bonnet release catch was the wrong style for the car it was claiming to be.:eek:

However I reckon with that steering wheel then if you remove the little indicator blister on the front wing and make a little oval centre instrument binnacle, steering column should have a single control stalk, then you'll have a pretty good model of a MkIII.
 

Brian McKenzie

Western Thunderer
I flattened the wheels slightly and rounded the bottom of the tyres slightly to give the impression of weight

Very nice mouldings. Could the front wheel go higher up into the guard?

(Have owned three Minis in past years. One (Minivan) got as far as crossing the Hindu Kush mountains to reach Bamiyan in Afghanistan, then on to Kashmir and down to the southern tip of India. Suspension ball joints broke at three wheels, and new balls and stems were turned by myself from mild steel using a file, whilst an Indian chap treadle powered the lathe. Those new joints got us back to London, having worn nine tyres right through to puncturing the inner tubes. The last two new tyres were acquired in Tehran by trading some spare parts carried.)
 

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Many thanks ,again, for input Heather and Adrian. I would want the Mini to be as accurate as possible for the era I'm modelling.

Another rabbit warren to disappear down...:)

Very nice mouldings. Could the front wheel go higher up into the guard?

I'm sure it's possible. It's something I noticed when placing the parts on each other to see how they looked.
 

JimG

Western Thunderer
Coming to this a bit late, but I would agree with the central speedo position. My wife and I had a Mk 1 mini of around 1961 vintage and I remember getting my daughter's first car - a secondhand mini in the early 1980s and probably of late 70s vintage - and nothing much had changed. :) Wasn't there also a circular heater under the front shelf?

Reading Brian's efforts at repairs to his Mini, I remember that my brother and I stripped out our Mk 1 engine and got it rebored and with new big and small ends and a crankshaft re-grind. It had done about 85000 and the bores had gone oval. We put it all together again and it went first press of the button - I still can't really believe that. :):) All the reboring and re-grinding was done by a retired engineer who had quite a setup in his garage. I first met him when he did the rebore on my 500 AJS single and he was kept quite busy in the 60s with a lot of machinery needing breathed upon. :)

Jim.
 
Top