Dan Vadas

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny

Thanks for the comments guys, and also to all those who "Liked" my posts  .
 
I've done all the cab detailing that I'm going to do. A few of these parts will be a bit difficult to see when the cab is completed, but the pics are proof that they are in there  .
 
This triple valve is made from brass tubing and styrene rod. The handwheels are laser-cut paper :





Two scratchbuilt switch panels :


Now I could fit the sides. The fit was perfect  :



Some final pics of the cab interior before things get harder to see :

 



Danny

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny

Everytime I see pics of my own models in macrosetting, I realize how perfect your building is:
No sloppy cutting, no glue on the wrong side of the card, no nothing.....
 
Absolutely stunning. 
 
Jan

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny

Thanks for the comments guys, and also to all those who "Liked" my posts  .
 
I've done all the cab detailing that I'm going to do. A few of these parts will be a bit difficult to see when the cab is completed, but the pics are proof that they are in there  .
 
This triple valve is made from brass tubing and styrene rod. The handwheels are laser-cut paper :





Two scratchbuilt switch panels :


Now I could fit the sides. The fit was perfect  :



Some final pics of the cab interior before things get harder to see :

 



Danny

Thanks for the comments guys, and also to all those who "Liked" my posts  .
 
I've done all the cab detailing that I'm going to do. A few of these parts will be a bit difficult to see when the cab is completed, but the pics are proof that they are in there  .
 
This triple valve is made from brass tubing and styrene rod. The handwheels are laser-cut paper :





Two scratchbuilt switch panels :


Now I could fit the sides. The fit was perfect  :



Some final pics of the cab interior before things get harder to see :

 



Danny

The coal bunker has also been made. I'll fit this to the cab after I've done a bit more detailing to the controls :




The ladders and lights :




The completed coal bunker :



Danny

Thanks for the comments guys, and also to all those who "Liked" my posts  .
 
I've done all the cab detailing that I'm going to do. A few of these parts will be a bit difficult to see when the cab is completed, but the pics are proof that they are in there  .
 
This triple valve is made from brass tubing and styrene rod. The handwheels are laser-cut paper :





Two scratchbuilt switch panels :


Now I could fit the sides. The fit was perfect  :



Some final pics of the cab interior before things get harder to see :

 



Danny

The coal bunker has also been made. I'll fit this to the cab after I've done a bit more detailing to the controls :




The ladders and lights :




The completed coal bunker :



Danny

Hi all, thanks to all those who have commented and "liked" my build so far. My eyesight has been deteriorating lately, hopefully it's just a result of the chemotherapy I've been on and it will return to "normal" after it's over. I can still see well enough with my 8x Optivisor so the build can continue.
 
The wheels. These took me a week to make. Some time ago I bought one of these Circle Cutters, but never had any success with it at the time I tried it. I decided to give it another go and see if I could work out how to actually use it, because there are a LOT of circles to cut - something like 8 or 10 for each of the 12 wheels 

I worked out the technique to make not only a success of it but to cut circles that were better than I could do by hand in MUCH less time. I'll put up a topic in "Tips and Tricks" a bit later to explain my method. Here's the result, and a pic of most of the parts needed :


To assemble a wheel I made this simple jig. It's probably THE most useful jig I've ever made, turning out excellent results consistently :


There are three different types of the main wheels - two Driving wheels (top), two middle wheels without flanges (left) and 8 of the rest (right) :

I'm using the laser cut reinforcements as you can see. These are a bit different to the two wheels I made earlier, so I decided to scrap them and start over. The rim is 1mm narrower than the centre, and the spokes need to be sloped for them to fit properly. I achieved this by carefully cutting the rim off one disc and shaving the spokes down to zero thickness at the outer end. The wheel in the pic is one of the smaller ones which I made last. The large wheels have 12 spokes on most of them :




Once all the discs were glued together I sanded the edge flat using a sanding stick with 150 grit paper :

Then I glued the main edging on, followed by the rear flange on those that had one. There was no edging for the thinner flange, so I printed up some matching grey colour, cut it into 1.5mm strips and glued them on. It looks better than just painting them :


All the large wheels completed :


I modified my jig for the smaller wheels, as they only had a centre hole :

Last job was to clean up the centre hole so that they turned freely on the axles. I used a small diamond coated round file :

All the wheels. Most of them still need a spacer and wire for the crank :

Danny

I've glued up the complete main frames. Very little trimming or adjusting was necessary, and I'm more than happy with the results. Especially considering all the dramas I had to get to this point  .
 
Now to make 16 more wheels, see you all again in a week or so  :





Danny

Thank you Mark, Caroline and Ken  .
 
The smaller bogie wheels have fewer parts than the main ones, so making one didn't take all that long :

 The kit supplied a template for gluing the spokes to the rims, there are 3 of these - one for the bogie wheels and two for the drive wheels as two of those are different to the other 10. I turned the templates into jigs by mounting the thin paper to heavy card and adding some stops where needed to make assembly of the others much easier later on :


The finished wheel :



I needed the wheel to align the brakes properly. Here are some of the parts for the mechanism :

One brake completed :


Danny

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny

Thanks for the comments guys, and also to all those who "Liked" my posts  .
 
I've done all the cab detailing that I'm going to do. A few of these parts will be a bit difficult to see when the cab is completed, but the pics are proof that they are in there  .
 
This triple valve is made from brass tubing and styrene rod. The handwheels are laser-cut paper :





Two scratchbuilt switch panels :


Now I could fit the sides. The fit was perfect  :



Some final pics of the cab interior before things get harder to see :

 



Danny

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny

Thanks for the comments guys, and also to all those who "Liked" my posts  .
 
I've done all the cab detailing that I'm going to do. A few of these parts will be a bit difficult to see when the cab is completed, but the pics are proof that they are in there  .
 
This triple valve is made from brass tubing and styrene rod. The handwheels are laser-cut paper :





Two scratchbuilt switch panels :


Now I could fit the sides. The fit was perfect  :



Some final pics of the cab interior before things get harder to see :

 



Danny

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny

Thanks for the comments guys, and also to all those who "Liked" my posts  .
 
I've done all the cab detailing that I'm going to do. A few of these parts will be a bit difficult to see when the cab is completed, but the pics are proof that they are in there  .
 
This triple valve is made from brass tubing and styrene rod. The handwheels are laser-cut paper :





Two scratchbuilt switch panels :


Now I could fit the sides. The fit was perfect  :



Some final pics of the cab interior before things get harder to see :

 



Danny

It's brilliant Danny.
 
My card model has arrived now and I can't believe the quality of the kit, especially the laser cut parts.

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :




The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :


 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.
 
Danny