Dan Vadas
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Jorge Diaz O in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
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
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from hexnut in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
The laser-cut parts arrived just after I put up the previous post, so after sorting and filing the 10 sheets into my A3 folder I took a look at them. The laser cutting is about the best I've seen so far - the edges on even the 1mm thick card pieces are perfectly square and the cut itself is VERY fine. All but the larger pieces needed no little "tags" to hold them in the sheets, so that saves a lot of cleaning up . Here are a couple of examples in the 0.5mm thick sheet of some diamond mesh cut precisely half-way through - there aren't even any burn marks on the back side :
Now that I have them I immediately got started on the right-side frame. I glued all the previously cut coloured pieces to the card and started gluing the sections together :
That's when I discovered I'd made a terrible mistake. In my haste to get on with it I'd actually glued BOTH left and right sides to each piece, making them all 1mm too thick . This would have resulted in the side being 6mm thick instead of 3mm like the left side frame. What to do? I decided to toss the middle section altogether and trim the inner pieces down to 1mm thick. This took me about 3 hours to accomplish :
All good now, the right side is done. A check with my digital vernier shows that the completed side finished up within 0.05mm tolerance - I'll live with that :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from hexnut in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
Actually Ken, until I glued the arm to the cylinder clevis it DID all work .
Still no laser-cut stuff, so I made up the main brake cylinder assembly :
I needed a few more red bolt heads, so I used this method to paint some primed (formerly black) laser-cut ones :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from pjofc4 in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
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
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from yvesvidal in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
I think I've worked out why it's taken Stephan a couple of years to get a little bit past this stage - the wheels . One wheel took me 12 hours to make - 17 more to go. At this stage I'm only making one large and one small wheel, as I need to check a few measurements before continuing on with the brake assemblies, and my laser-cut frames and wheels are still on the way from Poland.
The parts for one of the driving wheels. Nearly every part needed to be laminated to 1mm thick card. I'd ordered 10 sheets of 0.5mm and 10 of 1mm card from GPM two weeks ago, it arrived yesterday (pretty good for them). This card is MUCH easier to cut than the far denser card I'd bought from Officeworks :
One wheel finished :
You may notice that I'd scraped the gluing surface of one of the red discs. Most of the red parts have a coating on them, probably clear lacquer, which doesn't glue very well.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from yvesvidal in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
The rear bogie is much more complex. There's about a week of work involved in this. Once again a lot of rivets. I used the laser-cut ones for this, as cutting about 200 1mm diameter rivets was not an option. I pre-painted them before cutting them off the sheet. They were supplied in black, a thin coat of grey spray primer was applied first followed by artist's acrylics vermillion straight from the tube which was a very good match :
Aligning each part was critical to the outcome. I used 2mm and 3mm tubing wherever I could to ensure that :
The parts for the brake/suspension assembly frames :
Fitting the brake/suspension frames to the main bogie frame :
The completed rear bogie :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Captain Slog in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
Major slackness on my part, as far as updating this log goes and not in the amount I've accomplished. Sorry about that, I hope the following couple of posts make up for that .
The front bogie, which only has a pair of wheels attached. Not a lot of pics unfortunately, but the last one shows the completed unit ready for fitting to the main frame (when I finish that) :
More in the next post, Danny.
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from druxey in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
It's not just an EFFECT Tom, it really is cut halfway through the card.
Welcome to my build Moab, I hope you enjoy the ride .
Michael, I'm using a Craft Glue. It's a PVA that is acid free, very similar to your "normal" white wood glue. I use a very small amount of CA on occasion to strengthen the edge of delicate paper parts, and to glue metal-to-metal or metal-to-paper when needed.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from TBlack in Transport of a ship
My work here is done (rides off into the sunset ).
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from popeye the sailor in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
It's not just an EFFECT Tom, it really is cut halfway through the card.
Welcome to my build Moab, I hope you enjoy the ride .
Michael, I'm using a Craft Glue. It's a PVA that is acid free, very similar to your "normal" white wood glue. I use a very small amount of CA on occasion to strengthen the edge of delicate paper parts, and to glue metal-to-metal or metal-to-paper when needed.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from TOM G in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
It's not just an EFFECT Tom, it really is cut halfway through the card.
Welcome to my build Moab, I hope you enjoy the ride .
Michael, I'm using a Craft Glue. It's a PVA that is acid free, very similar to your "normal" white wood glue. I use a very small amount of CA on occasion to strengthen the edge of delicate paper parts, and to glue metal-to-metal or metal-to-paper when needed.
Danny
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Dan Vadas reacted to michael mott in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
Thanks for your answer Danny.
Michael
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Canute in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
It's not just an EFFECT Tom, it really is cut halfway through the card.
Welcome to my build Moab, I hope you enjoy the ride .
Michael, I'm using a Craft Glue. It's a PVA that is acid free, very similar to your "normal" white wood glue. I use a very small amount of CA on occasion to strengthen the edge of delicate paper parts, and to glue metal-to-metal or metal-to-paper when needed.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from hexnut in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
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
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from pjofc4 in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
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
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from yvesvidal in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
The laser-cut parts arrived just after I put up the previous post, so after sorting and filing the 10 sheets into my A3 folder I took a look at them. The laser cutting is about the best I've seen so far - the edges on even the 1mm thick card pieces are perfectly square and the cut itself is VERY fine. All but the larger pieces needed no little "tags" to hold them in the sheets, so that saves a lot of cleaning up . Here are a couple of examples in the 0.5mm thick sheet of some diamond mesh cut precisely half-way through - there aren't even any burn marks on the back side :
Now that I have them I immediately got started on the right-side frame. I glued all the previously cut coloured pieces to the card and started gluing the sections together :
That's when I discovered I'd made a terrible mistake. In my haste to get on with it I'd actually glued BOTH left and right sides to each piece, making them all 1mm too thick . This would have resulted in the side being 6mm thick instead of 3mm like the left side frame. What to do? I decided to toss the middle section altogether and trim the inner pieces down to 1mm thick. This took me about 3 hours to accomplish :
All good now, the right side is done. A check with my digital vernier shows that the completed side finished up within 0.05mm tolerance - I'll live with that :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from yvesvidal in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
Actually Ken, until I glued the arm to the cylinder clevis it DID all work .
Still no laser-cut stuff, so I made up the main brake cylinder assembly :
I needed a few more red bolt heads, so I used this method to paint some primed (formerly black) laser-cut ones :
Danny
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Dan Vadas reacted to Moab in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
I just started following your build and it’s amazing. Thank you for the great photos and explanations...Moab
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Dan Vadas reacted to TOM G in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
That diamond mesh, look's to have a nice 3D effect to it. Their was an artist Andrea Pozzo who painted in 3D, back in the17th century , if you google the name you can see some of his jaw dropping work.
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from yvesvidal in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
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
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Captain Slog in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
Actually Ken, until I glued the arm to the cylinder clevis it DID all work .
Still no laser-cut stuff, so I made up the main brake cylinder assembly :
I needed a few more red bolt heads, so I used this method to paint some primed (formerly black) laser-cut ones :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from FriedClams in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
The laser-cut parts arrived just after I put up the previous post, so after sorting and filing the 10 sheets into my A3 folder I took a look at them. The laser cutting is about the best I've seen so far - the edges on even the 1mm thick card pieces are perfectly square and the cut itself is VERY fine. All but the larger pieces needed no little "tags" to hold them in the sheets, so that saves a lot of cleaning up . Here are a couple of examples in the 0.5mm thick sheet of some diamond mesh cut precisely half-way through - there aren't even any burn marks on the back side :
Now that I have them I immediately got started on the right-side frame. I glued all the previously cut coloured pieces to the card and started gluing the sections together :
That's when I discovered I'd made a terrible mistake. In my haste to get on with it I'd actually glued BOTH left and right sides to each piece, making them all 1mm too thick . This would have resulted in the side being 6mm thick instead of 3mm like the left side frame. What to do? I decided to toss the middle section altogether and trim the inner pieces down to 1mm thick. This took me about 3 hours to accomplish :
All good now, the right side is done. A check with my digital vernier shows that the completed side finished up within 0.05mm tolerance - I'll live with that :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from pythagoras in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
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
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from FriedClams in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
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
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Captain Slog in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
The laser-cut parts arrived just after I put up the previous post, so after sorting and filing the 10 sheets into my A3 folder I took a look at them. The laser cutting is about the best I've seen so far - the edges on even the 1mm thick card pieces are perfectly square and the cut itself is VERY fine. All but the larger pieces needed no little "tags" to hold them in the sheets, so that saves a lot of cleaning up . Here are a couple of examples in the 0.5mm thick sheet of some diamond mesh cut precisely half-way through - there aren't even any burn marks on the back side :
Now that I have them I immediately got started on the right-side frame. I glued all the previously cut coloured pieces to the card and started gluing the sections together :
That's when I discovered I'd made a terrible mistake. In my haste to get on with it I'd actually glued BOTH left and right sides to each piece, making them all 1mm too thick . This would have resulted in the side being 6mm thick instead of 3mm like the left side frame. What to do? I decided to toss the middle section altogether and trim the inner pieces down to 1mm thick. This took me about 3 hours to accomplish :
All good now, the right side is done. A check with my digital vernier shows that the completed side finished up within 0.05mm tolerance - I'll live with that :
Danny
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