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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
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 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 druxey 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 yvesvidal 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 yvesvidal in 2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
This assembly is the smoke box. A lot of laminating was needed, no doubt the laser-cut sheets (which are still in transit) would have had the middle supports included but I forged ahead with several layers of card. This assembly therefore took me three days to make, I'm quite happy with the results :
A bevel needed to be cut for the "roof" section :
The "roof" didn't fit very well - it was too short in one direction and too long in the other according to the glue markings despite the accuracy of the rest of the box. Apparently it's a problem with the kit design, as another builder (Stephan) found the same thing with his. I'd read his build log where he pointed out the mistake, so I was extra careful to align the box in case he hadn't, but came up with the same error. Hopefully there aren't too many more errors down the track, this one was quite easy to fix.
I used the black laser-cut bolt heads this time instead of cutting my own :
The tabs on the sides will be covered by the main frames later on. The two that extend out are used to align the box with the inside of the frames.
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 12 main springs. These consist of 7 leaves each, all are back-to-back laminated :
A doubled binding strap encircles each one :
Last things are the support arms and "nuts". I made a jig for ease of assembly of the nuts which saved a lot of time, holding the things was a bit difficult without it :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from reklein 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 FriedClams 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 FriedClams 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 thibaultron 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 Captain Slog 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 reacted to michael mott in Flat Bed Wagon by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
Just went through this build Danny, beautiful work!
Mike
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from GrandpaPhil 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 jud in Flat Bed Wagon by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED
Thank you Ken, my mind was on a different type of "Garden Railway" - the kind you can actually ride in .
Pav - I'm aware of the different types of Buffers and I'll sleep just fine, as these ones are slightly convex (bowed) as per the original. Perhaps that didn't show up too well in my other pictures so here's another. Thanks for the links.
BTW - the buffers on the "next" wagon are NOT inverted (concave) but convex like these, or even just flat. It would be a VERY difficult task to sort out each wagon into "innies" and "outies" every time they were coupled. One could argue that the ones on the front were convex and the rear were concave, but the wagons do get turned around frequently. The convex buffers actually allow for a smaller turning radius, preventing "buffer lock", where one buffer can get caught behind the other and possibly cause a de-railment. I've never seen a concave buffer (or "innie") .
You'll have to excuse me - my daughter just informed me that my Bulgar Loco has arrived at last - ordered on July 4th. I thought the ship had sunk . Looks like I'm about to get busy . Yaaayyy.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from thibaultron 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 egkb 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 popeye the sailor 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 TOM G 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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