I have been slightly busy of late , making and photographing as I go along , two models --so’s while one is drying , I can work on the other .
One is a scratch build of a typical Railbus . I like railbuses .
The other is the 1/19 Garden Railway Supplies Tasmanian K1 Garratt .
It’s quite a nice kit , not for the faint hearted , you have to be able to use a file and measure things up , so I have a problem straight away . I can’t add up . So , if you should see a Garrat with 5 wheels on one truck , and three on the other , you will know who built it .
It has a steel laser cut chassis-well , three chassis in all , resin boiler and cab , lots of nuts bolts and screws .
and I am having fun . I shall not review it , it’s as much as I can do to stop to take pictures . I shall however put pics on site . Eventually .
Mike
Sounds interesting.
Mike…
When I start a project like the Garret; I usually loose at least one wheel, just to make life a bit interesting…funny how a three wheeled speeder based on a bicycle and out rigger, will work; while a missing wheel on a 4 wheeled arch bar truck seems to cause a bit of a bind.
My latest adventure into scratch building, involves cutting costs at all cost. I decided to try for a modern approach towards solving the problems of the famous 0-5-0 switcher.
First challenge is to try to prevent the growth of warts, or callouses on at least 4 of the five fingers. Then the never ending adventure into the proper trimming of the never ending growth of finger nails…which can scratch the best of surfaces.
There is also the problem with natural oils on all fingers and hands.
After letting a fine model sit on a dusty shelf, long enough to develop a weathering job fit to be compared with one by the famous “Mack” somebody. Along comes the “Oily Fingered 0-5-0”…and gone is the supurb weathering job, with finger prints all over, leaving only the local security squad happy with more prints for their Terror list.
The solution it seems is latex gloves; but then they seem to attract young fools who blow them up and go comparing them as 5 teated udders at every farm in the area.
This whole project is taking far too long and is seriously infringing on my limited holy water tasting/testing time.
We will carry on though, in spite of the doubts that will be thrown like rocks at my wee glass bottle of hope…