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THE SCALEFOUR SOCIETY |
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THE SCALEFOUR SOCIETY |
| Member's Portfolio - Page 4 |
This
set of
pages is intended for Society 'show-offs', which we all are at heart.
The
object is to display pictures of modelling in our chosen scale and to
our
finescale standards.
Submission
of pictures from Society members is appreciated, either as standard
photos
which can be scanned and returned, or as digital images.
Note:
copyright
in these pictures remains with the owning member who can be contacted
through
the webmaster
if anyone
wants
to copy or make further use of them.
Just click on the pictures to move to the full size version.
| Tony McSean, 5827 | ||
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| The standard
Airfix Esso tanks,
originally built to OO standards over 30 years ago, and now retrieved
from their box and given the full Geoff Kent treatment.
Disconcertingly, they had become self-dismantling with the passage of
time and the full train of 14 tanks survived the reconstruction (apart
from one that was in the paint stripper when unexpected guests arrived
and deconstructed itself into paste, and one I cannibalised).
The details of what I did to them are all in Geoff's book. The etched ladders were a devil to get right and soldering up the drain cocks was a finger-scarring aexperience but otherwise the upgrading was an enjoyable and satisfying job. The painting and weathering is my first serious venture into airbrushing. The transfers for the lettering and branding are home made (although the CCT products are better and very good value) and the pictures were taken before Bill Bedford produced his etches for the Esso logo - I immediately replaced my styrene versions and the improvement is marked |
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These Bradwell kits were constructed more or less as per the instructions. Building them took a long time but the quality of the design, production and instructions made the job a pleasure from beginning to end. The only slightly tricky bits were (a) getting the apex of the lateral centre divider to sit below the level of the sides (this was just a fiddle ), and soldering on the ribs at the top of each end which even using an RSU I found had me reaching for the colourful language and some replacement brass strip. Otherwise they were great. The lettering is home-made and the inside is brush painted with metalcote gunmental and buffed up with a cotton bud. | |
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| The Hurst snowploughs are also in
as-new
condition. The kits aren't too bad and sit on Gibson wheels
of
prototypically differing diameter. The sharp end of the
blade
looked like it would be difficult to get right but wasn't - and both
these units have tidier blades than the in-service pictures I've seen
of the prototypes so probably should be half unsoldered. The
real
catch is where the blade section meets the cab, which has to be smooth
and was a devil to get right. It's still not perfect but the
chevrons distract the eye (I tell myself). Chevrons and
lettering are home-made decals. The paint job was the other real catch. The two ploughs have had 5 paint jobs between them - partly incompetence but mostly because it's not easy. Look closely and you'll see imperfections and retouching, but it was that or alcoholism, blindess, insanity and death Every one of these units seems to have its own variation of livery, so I kept these plain and as retro as feasible for something not introduced until 1965. PS The handrails are now straight. |
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With the news I'm finding it hard to
settle to
work, so I've sorted out some pics of mineral wagons.
(13/9/01)
They include kits from Parkside and Slaters and |
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| Paul Moore, 4817 | |
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| D7624 - Bachmann
with underframe hacked about a bit. D8597 - Dave Alexander whitemetal kit with twin Lo-Rider bogies. - Camera: Nikon Coolpix 4500. |
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| Andrew Nummelin, 1380 | |
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Many thanks to all who
provided help on building radial axle boxes - here's my first attempt. It was done purely for the sake of a challenge, but not having a pony truck certainly simplified other parts of the chassis. It works pretty well but has a tendency to climb up onto a check rail if the top of it is at all below the surface of the running rail. I suspect also that the side control spring should be a bit stonger (and preferably actually located properly - it was only after I looked at the scanned photo that I realised that it had dropped out of place.) |
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The chassis is fully beam compensated and with the centre of gravity of the loco at the right place (as close as I can judge at home) the weight distribution, and hence road holding on a reasonable piece of track, should be OK. If I get the chance I'll get it evaluated at Scaleforum, and then ...... probably decide to stick to wagon building. Practice & advice helps! |
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At
least the lining on number 11 is a bit better than on 195: but I still
have a long way to go to reach the standards I would like. Perhaps a
bit more practice would help? (11 is the third loco kit I've built and
was finished a couple of years ago, 195 was my first and started out in
"OO" in 1967 - do I hear mutterings of "armchair modeller"?) I need to learn to take better photos. The ghostly chimney and front lamp aren't bad - if the rest of the photo had been of the same quality you'd not be able to see just how much I need to improve my modelling! |
| I'd be happy to receive any questions, suggestions or criticisms, Andrew Nummelin | |
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