Nelson's Workbench

[Dave]

Stunning work Nelson, the attention to detail is breathtaking and inspiring. Well done, you should be proud

[popeye]

Stunning work, beautiful loco & love the colour. The crew are the icing on the cake.

[33lima]

Wow! A work of art, Nelson, which would grace any collection or any museum.

[burnthebox]

Nelson, your attention to detail as always and with your crew it leaves me to think I may have worked alongside that " coalman " the crew are so well detailed, well done,

[Dunluce Castle]

Hello everyone,

Here's just a couple of pictures of the new wagons on the layout from the very enjoyable exhibition last weekend.

I'm gonna be using 3 link couplings from now onwards

Many thanks

Nelson

[BosKonay]

Just gorgeous

[Riversuir226]

Stunning work Nelson

[amdaley]

Well done Nelson.

That's lovely modelling.

[Dunluce Castle]

Hello everyone,

 

Sorry for the lack of updates, mainly because I lost my modelling mojo but a recent exhibition and a vist to Cultra soon fixed that.

This is only one of the superb O gauge scratch built engines that were seen running on "Stanfording" and it really is a wonderful model, hopefully one day I could be as good

And the visit to Cultra, Northern Ireland's only railway museum provided me with lots of modelling references, and to my amazement, some wagon drawings

My favourite locomotive of all time, U2 class "Dunluce Castle"

and BCDRs only surviving locomotive, No30

 

So with my modelling mojo back and keen to do some modelling I've started work on a LMS NCC coal wagon (can't remember which variant) but for this one I've scratch built the frames, this way it's easier to get an accurate model in terms of dimensions etc, this is how much I've done so far,

Ooh the cruel close ups that us modellers hate ah well, it runs surprising quite well without bearings and sits in all 4 wheels nicely.

 

That's all for tonight folks, take care,

Nelson

[Dunluce Castle]

Here's this evenings update,

 

I got a bit more done on the chassis and its now finished and ready for a body to be built, yes the brakes are a bit over scale and its too high but I made the mistake by not measuring it until the glue had dried, so that's something to remember for the next wagons.

Many thanks

Nelson

[Dunluce Castle]

Hello everyone,

Firstly I must apologise to the rivet counters, as you can see the straps haven't got any rivets and the main reason for that is, I don't know how lol

I completed the body and the wagon is ready to be painted,

Sorry for the slow rate of progress I'm definitely not one of those modellers who can produce something like this in 1 day, I like to take my time.

Many thanks

Nelson

[scahalane]

Excellent detail, looking forward to seeing it painted.

[heirflick]

Hello everyone,

Firstly I must apologise to the rivet counters, as you can see the straps haven't got any rivets and the main reason for that is, I don't know how lol

Sorry for the slow rate of progress I'm definitely not one of those modellers who can produce something like this in 1 day, I like to take my time.

Many thanks

Nelson

 

do not be apologise to anybody for any of your work - not many of us have your skills!

[73.River.Roe.]

Hi Nelson as heirflick says don't apologise to anybody for your work..... just like me when I was your age my modelling skills were not as good as yours, but with experience your skills will grow and you will learn everyday new methods on how to do things too, plus you will get quicker at doing projects..... as I have found if you are building wagons build a number of them at the same time so your doing the same thing while waiting on glue setting say on the 1st one and your doing the 2nd one while the glue is drying on that one do the 3rd one etc etc That way you can speed up your projects.....

[Dave]

Nothing to apologise for Nelson, its a stunning job. Did you cast the white metal yourself?

[Dunluce Castle]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate your comments,

 

No Dave I didn't, they are NER axle boxes but are a close match for those used by the NCC, and the buffers are LMS ones.

[Dunluce Castle]

Hello Everyone,

 

Sorry for the lack of updates this past week(s), I had taken a whole week off modelling and forums etc... To clear my head and get me focused for the beginning of school, but now I've settled in I can get back to finishing off the NCC wagon, but in the meantime I've built and finished this Panzer 3 Ausf B, and started on 2 more completely scratch built wagons, more info about these in later updates. I have also bought a brand new hornby fowler for a great price on eBay a couple of days ago and when I've finished off the current and started projects then I will begin on making a LMS NCC WT Class Jeep.

Take care folks,

Nelson

[heirflick]

nice job on the panzer!

[Garfield]

I think that's a sturmgeschütz (StuG) rather than a panzer (although it's built on a panzer chassis), but never mind... great work!

Edited September 9, 2014 by Garfield

[Dunluce Castle]

Hmmmm, I thought it was a panzer 3 ausf B, this is the same as the Panzer 3 but without a turret and fitted with a fixed one, the stug's were slightly different?

 

Thanks for the comments tho.

[Dunluce Castle]

Just did some research and we are both right infact, sorry.

[Garfield]

Just did some research and we are both right infact, sorry.

 

Ha, no big deal anyway... I do get it hard to keep track with all the different variants!

[33lima]

Nice model Nelson, is it a 1/72 job, or you into that 'Bolt Action' wargaming which I gather uses about 1/56th?

 

Anyone interested in tanks should give this a try:

 

 

Like they say, travel to interesting places...

 

 

...meet interesting people...

 

 

...and kill them:

 

[Dunluce Castle]

Thanks, yep she's 1/72 made by an excellent company called Trumpeter, and for tank lovers I highly recommend "World of Tanks"

Thanks for your comment.

 

Just watched the video and it looks really good, especially the German speaking tank crew.

Edited September 9, 2014 by Dunluce Castle

[33lima]

Tried WoT but not into multiplayer with it's artificial 'tiers', grinding or free-to-play or pay-to-win and all the gamesmamship, plus it's too 'arcadey' for my tastes. No realistic functional gunsights and no interiors either, unlike Steel Fury, a proper tank combat simulator which also has AI-controlled infantry, towed and 'off-map' artillery and airstrikes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2014 by 33lima

[Dunluce Castle]

That's very true and I completely agree with you, it's also very and I mean very fast pace lol, that game/simulator in the pictures above looks really good, must watch a few videos on it. War thunder have recently brought out a new "ground forces" feature which includes tanks just like WOT but its said to be worse

[Garfield]

I must say I'm partial to a game of World of Tanks, especially the Blitz version for the iPhone... Steel Fury looks interesting, though!

[Dunluce Castle]

What am I like? Here I am starting another kit lol

[video=youtube_share;ef1LnamvO40]

Painting vid to come afterwards

[Dunluce Castle]

Hello everyone,

 

Painting is now underway on the whippet and I decided to make a diorama for my stug, this'll be the second time doing anything scenery wise and im quite happy with it, just noticed the tree isn't straight will fix that now

I totally understand that this is a railway forum so I'm sorry if I'm breaking any rules here, will get back to railway modelling soon, tell me if you like these types of posts or would you rather see railway ones only?

Thanks

Nelson

[33lima]

Hello everyone,

I totally understand that this is a railway forum so I'm sorry if I'm breaking any rules here, will get back to railway modelling soon, tell me if you like these types of posts or would you rather see railway ones only?

Thanks

Nelson

 

Very possibly, even tho the other modelling forums here don't specifically cover AFVs; but as I'm a tank nut too, in for a penny:

 

Italaeri Panzer IVH, Tamiya Panzer II:

[Dunluce Castle]

That's awesome lima33 love the use of real snow feel free to post more if you wish, always happy

[popeye]

Is it snowing already, that's early Very nice. Im a helicopter nut.

[33lima]

No helicopters I'm afraid, just some more panzers, pictured back in 1984:

 

That Italaeri 1/35 Panzer IVH again, this time in warmer climes:

 

 

 

Next, the weather has turned colder again! The Wespe 10.5cm SP gun was converted from the Tamiya Marder II, the former vehicle not being available in 1/35 kit form, back then; I also converted an Italaeri Panzer 38(t) to a 15cm SP heavy infantry gun. The Sdfz 250/3 command variant is I think a Nitto model; it came with the overhead 'bed-stead' frame aerial as seen on Rommel's half-track 'Greif' but as my aim was to produce vehicles representative of those used by the units of a Panzer Division in 1944, I replaced that with the later 'pole and star' aerial, although retaining the early body shape.

 

 

[Dunluce Castle]

Amazing pictures and models, nice one, funnily enough I've just ordered a couple of panzer 4s yesterday lol

[Dunluce Castle]

Hello everyone,

 

Once again sorry for the delay in this update but better late than never painting figures does take an awfully long time, anyway these are the Zvezda 1/72nd scale Germans in late war winter clothing, superbly moulded in hard plastic so there's very little flash and lots of detail, highly recommended. Then once those were done I started to finish off the Whippet that I started a couple of weeks ago and here are the results, I'm really happy with how it's turned out particularly the weathering and tracks. Now that was all the military kits over and done with I began on some (railway related yay ) GNRI/SLNCR wagons, these are still in the making, they are resin kits from Provincial Wagons, very easy to put together and have lots of detail, the 4 coal wagons are to be heavily weathered.

Thanks for looking, take care,

Nelson