Sean's 7mm Workbench

[Railway Lyons]

Bit of a tidy up at home in junk/decorations attic, found a box hidden away and un-labeled. It was heavy, but after some wrangling, it was liberated to find......all 130 issues, unopened of a Hachette Partworks - Build Your Mallard. 

A few hours this evening and we have 8 issues built. I'm soldering instead of gluing for a longer lasting build. Going to take a while, but already have an A1 Scotman, and an A4 Bittern without valances built, so be nice addition when it done.

[jhb171achill]

Extremely neat work!

 

[Colonel]

Makes you wonder how many more of these part-works are stashed away like this, or indeed how many never collected the full set. It will be nice to learn about this one's progress though.

[Railway Lyons]

Another hour this evening, but it tried my patience. More internal spacers/bracing and 2nd outer frame on RHS chassis frame, with some of the gubbins and bushes. Solder one frame bracket on, and another falls off. Got there in the end. LHS to repeat this on, maybe tomorrow. 

I can see why instructions say superglue for novice builders, and as @Colonel said, wonder how many never started or gave up. 

[Horsetan]

11 minutes ago, Railway Lyons said:

....I can see why instructions say superglue for novice builders, ....

Unfortunately that works both ways. A couple of years ago, I picked up a part-built Backwoods Miniatures kit for the Industrial Garratt. Whoever had built it (to OO) had used Araldite throughout - body, both chassis, cylinders, the lot. It took at least a month to carve and scrape the dried Araldite off and separate all the parts for proper solder re-assembly; the stuff was everywhere and had set very hard. A proper nightmare. Dunno why people do it that way.

[Railway Lyons]

26 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Unfortunately that works both ways. A couple of years ago, I picked up a part-built Backwoods Miniatures kit for the Industrial Garratt. Whoever had built it (to OO) had used Araldite throughout - body, both chassis, cylinders, the lot. It took at least a month to carve and scrape the dried Araldite off and separate all the parts for proper solder re-assembly; the stuff was everywhere and had set very hard. A proper nightmare. Dunno why people do it that way.

For display only, gluing might be fine, but to run, solder is the only way I would trust. Only because i have experience building in brass for both OO and O gauges, im ready for the trails and the lomg haul.

Perhaps the Garratt you got was never intended to run, but be a nice display/talking point instead. 

[murrayec]

I see burning on the chassis frames where soldered! Is the brass coated with something?

I heard that the brass can be coated for gluing if this is a magazine Kit.....

Could be wrong

Eoin

[Horsetan]

2 hours ago, Railway Lyons said:

....Perhaps the Garratt you got was never intended to run, but be a nice display/talking point instead. 

Not anymore it's not!

[Railway Lyons]

25 minutes ago, murrayec said:

I see burning on the chassis frames where soldered! Is the brass coated with something?

I heard that the brass can be coated for gluing if this is a magazine Kit.....

Could be wrong

Eoin

It is laquer coated, and had been sanded back, but iron is not the greatest, so thats causing it. Cleans up fine though.