Kevin

Just catching up, just love this build log

good evening everyone, 

day 344-48

sorry about the pants photos, but now the freezer has moved out of the mancave, and its waining, so no wheelie bin, plus the mancave has had a bit of a sort out so i have to find somewhere to take the shots for tonight

spent some time tidying up the front end, but even tonight i see the spirit yard is not sitting right

i will label up a lot of the lines in the next day or so but today was sorting out the fore mast truss, i have to cut the lines to the jeers to do that, serves me right for not doing it in order (again)

horses still to be sorted, but in the right place

and lots of loose ends still

On 2/5/2024 at 6:10 AM, Old Collingwood said:

Good  to  see   you  back  Kevin,   how  are  the  boys  getting on together?

 

OC.

good evening OC, was never away, lol just lingering on the side-lines, bois are getting on quite well now and will share a same room now, but the young one does tease him a lot, hard to believe he will be six months old tomorrow 7th Feb

lol

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2 hours ago, oakheart said:

Oh the joys of being freelance - your own boss 🙂

 

Tim

lol you mean tired, over worked, and no time for hobby model making

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good evening everyone

standing rigging day 334-46 (lol about 6 weeks lost to puppy training and OCCRE Loco) 

well the build went back onto the table a few days ago, it was nice to see her back, 

even after a short break, it took a while to find out where i left off, but basically im still on standing rigging,

here a a few catch up photos

that looks fantastic Chris

good evening everyone

thank you for comments add likes

well the desire to do a non ship quick build has been done, and for now the build is complete, i will come back to her one day and add the extra carriages, but this is what i wanted to do for now

vajello black primer

rattle cans

Halfords Red Primer

VW Mars Red No.2

Rover British Racing Green Metallic

Halfords Ford Arizona Gold

good afternoon

my fix off wanting to do something different is already starting to go away, but i need to finish this project

from fleabay i obtained the diorama board, the full price is over the top, and contains boards, rails, rail fasteners, sleepers and lots of over sized gravel, i bartered and got a 50% reduction, which is what the true price should be

congratulations, brilliant job

good evening everyone

day 7

struggling tonight, in trying to be clever and putting brass strips onto metallic paint, and its just not working, the C/A is staining the paint, so i may have to rethink it, but it looks like im going to have to strip the tender down and redo it

i was/am/maybe/ doing their SD14 

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Happy New year Everyone

2 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

Looking good  Kevin   -  looking forward  to  more.

 

Happy New Year   to  you  and  yours.

 

OC.

Happy New Year OC to you the your wife, More of the train tomorrow

19 hours ago, realworkingsailor said:

Happy New Year Kevin!

 

You’re doing a great job, but it’s a shame Occre made the kit wheels with those oversized “pizza-cutter” flanges. For a display model they could have been made a bit more prototypical.

 

Regardless, your efforts will result in a great model. Is there any track included in the kit for display?

 

Andy

 

 

Happy new year to you as well

there is no track contained within the kit, but Occre go a diorama setting display board, but pricey, i have just made a fleabay offer on one and getting it for 1/2 the price, will allow me to put the 3 carriages on following the tender 

good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes

day 5 tender

not much to say about this build, fits together ok, and satisfy my need to do something different for a short period of time, looking forward to get back to indy now, hope to complete this in next couple of days

rattle can grey primer

tamiya XF-5 base coat, top coat will be the same as the boiler

good evening everyone, thank you for comments and likes

well i got to day 4 without any drama, unfortunately thats about as far as i got today

sad to see this come to and end , stunning work

good evening everyone, thank you for comments and likes, and interesting to see new followers to my ever continuing process of purchasing good kits and making them badly lol

day 3

ensuring the ends are flat to enable fitting into the chassis

wheels being made up

brass banding around the boiler, was a pain, trying to avoid marking the paint work

running gear

another test fit after chassis paint has dried

here she is for the another day tomorrow, nothing is fitted yet

16 minutes ago, Ian B said:

What!!! Another 'Ian' ship builder in Somerset....

 

All we need is an Ian A to complete the Somerset team

 

 

Welcome aboard 🤪

call me Ian A if you wish, have been called far worse 

2 minutes ago, RossR said:

Really excited to see someone building one of Occre’s trains or streetcars.  The amount of detail on these models looks fantastic.  I suspect a lot of the passion at Occre is about this subject matter.   

more so than the maritime subjects they cover lol

welcome aboard, i am in Bridgwater