Alan's Workbench

[Galteemore]

53 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

It wasn't the carpet! I put the body in a box temporarily, and now I can't find the box!!! 

Sounds like a particularly incompetent murderer talking to defence brief ! 

[Horsetan]

34 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Sounds like a particularly incompetent murderer talking to defence brief ! 

More like a "retired" 'RA member trying to remember where he buried one of the Disappeared. 

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

Ah, a "Safe Place". I've made that mistake a few times too.

Hmmmm indeed.

I have many such "safe places", wherein dwell model railway stuff, one set of house keys, an IR£4 winning lotto ticket, two sets of car keys, at least one mobile phone, an expensive jacket, a practically unused 10-day CIE runabout ticket from summer 1979 and gawd only knows what else.

Trouble is, they are VERY safe. VERY safe indeed.

[Galteemore]

Big question of course Alan is - what’s next ? New loco for Kilmore ?

[Tullygrainey]

7 hours ago, Galteemore said:

Big question of course Alan is - what’s next ? New loco for Kilmore ?

 I've been trying to resist that temptation David.  Kilmore needs some attention to get it properly operational, I have half finished wagons that need doing and other bits of rolling stock I'd like to have a go at. But then again....

[Galteemore]

Excellent. Old no 9 - which was re numbered when the BCDR’s last 4-4-2Ts were delivered c1945 I think 

Edited December 7 by Galteemore

[Tullygrainey]

15 hours ago, Galteemore said:

Excellent. Old no 9 - which was re numbered when the BCDR’s last 4-4-2Ts were delivered c1945 I think 

Yep that's the one David. Built originally as a tender engine in 1887 but subsequently converted to a tank engine. Marked down for scrapping in 1929 but survived derelict until the UTA takeover. Lost its number to a new bogie tank in 1945. (Information from Desmond Coakham's book)

I thought it might be interesting to try building a 0-4-2 chassis with drive on the front axle and the other two axles compensated. It ought to be possible to hide a motor/gearbox in the smokebox and boiler. Much the same as my chassis for BCDR No.6, just the other way round.

[Horsetan]

1 hour ago, Tullygrainey said:

....I thought it might be interesting to try building a 0-4-2 chassis with drive on the front axle and the other two axles compensated. It ought to be possible to hide a motor/gearbox in the smokebox and boiler....

Anyone fancy a go at Sambo?

[Mol_PMB]

28 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Anyone fancy a go at Sambo?

I don’t think either Sambo or Negro would be acceptable these days. The GSWR did choose some strange names for their locos. 

[Metrovik]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

I don’t think either Sambo or Negro would be acceptable these days. The GSWR did choose some strange names for their locos. 

Never realised Sambo was a derogatory term til now, I had always thought they named the loco after a sandwich! (That term actually dates from the 1970s)

[cheesy_peas]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

I don’t think either Sambo or Negro would be acceptable these days. The GSWR did choose some strange names for their locos. 

I imagine the choosing of Sambo and Jumbo was from popular culture of the time; Jumbo the Elephant being world famous in the mid to late 1800s, he unfortunately (and ironically) met his end when a train collided with him and his remains were mounted and put on display by a certain PT Barnum.

The Story of Little Black Sambo was a hugely popular childrens' book first published in 1899. Unusually for the time, the main character was one of the first black heroes in childrens' literature, a positive portrayal of black characters compared to contemporary books that regarded black people as uncultured and uncivilised, unfortunately the characters' names chosen were of course racial slurs.

[Killian Keane]

0-4-2 tank, a rare type in Ireland, tender versions were common enough in the 19thC 

The WLWR did however have a very handsome example

[Tullygrainey]

 A wagon for Kilmore.

This is the Weighbridge Fitters' van, apparently a one-off with no number. Desmond Coakham speculated that it was built on the chassis of a ballast brake ordered to be broken up in 1908. I used plasticard for the body with some brass strapping from an Alan Gibson etch. The sides apparently differed from one another but the two photos I was able to find were both of the same side so I guessed the layout of the hidden side based on the description in Desmond Coakhams' book. (The Belfast and County Down Railway, Colourpoint, 2010)

 

The chassis uses an MJT compensation etch to create one fixed and one rocking axle mounted on a brass floor. These will do the work of carrying the wheels behind the scene. Brake details came variously from Gibson and Brassmasters wagon chassis etches.

 

 

All of this then hides behind the outside W irons typical of BCDR rolling stock. They are cosmetic in this model and are superglued to the sole bars. Along with spring units, they are pre-production 3D printed items from Enda Byrne (ckprints.ie) which I got the opportunity to try out (many thanks to Gareth Brennan, Kieran Lagan and Enda for moving this along). They're finely printed and suit this project well.

 

I used tissue paper to texture the roof, flooding it with liquid poly to bond it to the plastic card. The skylight is also a guesstimate since the available photos don't show it well.

 

Next, paint, transfers and weathering. Some couplings, then it's just about ready to go. There are a number of errors (should have a window in each end for one thing) which I'm not going to lose sleep over.

 

 

[popeye]

That's a nice wagon and looks well.

Now take a few days off for Christmas 

[Colonel]

Unusual, to say the least, but all the more interesting! Fair bet that nobody is going to do an rtr version any time soon as well - though these days, who knows? Either way, another fine model.

 As for time off over Christmas, having hosted the family diaspora last week, it tends to be fairly quiet and having just seen the dismal range of stuff that the media has to offer am hoping Santa fulfils my usual wishlist of things to read, things to drink and things to make.

 Have a good one everybody.

[Galteemore]

Fabulous and unusual. Your subtle finishing really works well