Stage Coach 1848 by Eddie - Artesania Latina - Scale 1:10

[Eddie]

Hey howya goin all, here I've just started to put sanding seal on the trunk.    

 

 

In the  instructions manual they show you just butting the pieces of wood together to me that looks crap here I've mitered all the timber

 

 

Here is a macro look at the small pieces with 45 degree angle on them all hand cut.

[Mike Dowling]

Nice work Eddie!

[Vivian Galad]

Hey Eddie. This is an interesting kit u´ve got. Seeing it is going diligently... ok, off with the puns. Nice work. Be following along. 

[Eddie]

Thanks for stopping by Vivian.   

[Eddie]

On 5/6/2017 at 0:59 AM, Mike Dowling said:

Nice work Eddie!

Thanks Mike.

 

Hey howya goin all, just a quick update, heres a funny thing, after I cut the strips for going around the trunk I stained them to make them stand out more from the rest of the trunk the thing is the trunk is made from Walnut, the strips are made from Walnut, I stained the stips.... Walnut..... D'oh!    

 

 

Here I've restain them with black stain and have started to stick the to the trunk.   

 

 

 

[Steve 12345]

just found this log eddie looks really cool will def be following along one thing I did notice was the zap nozzles I also use zap a gap what I tend to do is save all me fizzy drink bottle caps and pour a small amount at a time into one then I use a metal dental pick type tool to aply small amounts of glue or if I really wanna spread glue in a hurry use a small length of planking ,the metal tool I can scrape clean the planking gets binned as does the bottle cap ,some times ive used the same bottle cap for two days running and the glue in it is still workable ,sorry if im teaching granny to suck eggs just explaining how I do use zap a gap anyways goodluck with your build looks really interesting to follow

[Eddie]

On 5/11/2017 at 8:52 AM, Steve 12345 said:

one thing I did notice was the zap nozzles

Hey howya goin Steve mate, thanks for stopping in and following mate. I only use the nozzles for running long lenths of very thin glue on thin strips and I use an upturned small paint bottle with a little ripped piece of foil on it when I'm using PE and just throw away the piece of foil away when it gets to much dryed glue on it  

[Eddie]

Hey howya goin all, a quick update, almost finished putting the rest of the timber on the lid of the trunk, I've bent the handles with my new grab handler tool. I've decided to put the 9 volt battery into the trunk it fits just right in there and the on/off push switch should just fit into the lid of the trunk don't have it yet it's in the mail. My display case will have hinges so I can have easy access to the switch and the battery.   

 

[Mike Dowling]

Neat idea that. I take it you are going to twin wire the lights then ?

[Eddie]

hey howya goin Mike mate, yeah both lights will be running off of one battery.   

[Eddie]

Hey howya goin all, just a little update, I,ve made a jig to heat bend the outside of the cabin walls.   

 

[Eddie]

Hey howya goin all, I've glued the bottom and the top beams altogether, I put sticky tape on my bench so the glue doesn't stick to my cutting mat and used the grid on my cutting mat to keep everything square. Now to leave it to sit for 24 hours   

 

 

 

[Dan Vadas]

That's quite a feat of scaffolding/engineering happening there Eddie . Should turn out nice and square.

 

  Danny

[Eddie]

Hahaha thanks Danny.    

[Mike Dowling]

I really hate myself for doing this but, are you sure that the base should not be on the outside? I mean on top of the sides not between them?

[CDW]

These last couple of pictures made me realize how large the coach model is going to be when finished. Somehow, I had it pictured in my mind's eye as a much smaller model than is actually is in real life. I like the progress you're making on it.

[Eddie]

Hahaha yeah I to didn't realize when I first got it how big with was till I made the back wheel and it was the size of my hand.    

[Eddie]

Its that way in the book mike, there is another piece that goes on the outside shown in pic.    

[Mike Dowling]

OK matey, I can see what you are doing now. Sorry to be thick!

[Eddie]

hey howya goin Mike mate, if you see me doing anything wrong don't hesitate to let me know mate.    

[Eddie]

On 4/25/2017 at 1:21 AM, Eddie said:

DON'T BUY THIS BRAND OF CLAMPS that are in the last 3 pics THEY ARE CRAP they are cheap chinese made they dont even hold that good

Hey howya goin all, I said this Quote back in post 14 just before I was about to throw them in the rubbish bin I decided to take one apart

 

 

I had to grid the end to beable to take the handle part off of the bar

 

 

and low and beholed my suspicion on how they made them I was right, the first bar is made from different type of metal but that doesn't matter what matters is that it is rounded on one side and does not grip the bar like it should be doing, the other two metal bars where made the right way with sharp edges

 

 

so I replace the first metal bar with the second metal bar and put it back together and now they work like the ment to do.     

 

Why they where made like this is probably designed by someone who doesn't know how quick grip clamps work    

 

 

[CDW]

A problem with a lot of the faulty products is a lack of proper quality control. Good quality control catches a bad run of products. But the reason much of the Chinese products are less costly is due to the lack of quality control. Sadly, the customers are their quality control.

Glad you got those sorted out. 

[Walt Con]

Great Build.  I will follow along.  Thanks for the log and your follow up comments and suggestions.  

 

 

[Mike Dowling]

What's happened to your build Eddie ? Did you see the Sopwith ?

[Dan Vadas]

55 minutes ago, Mike Dowling said:

What's happened to your build Eddie ? Did you see the Sopwith ?

Eddie seems to have left us. His last post was the one above last April. I hope it's nothing serious.

 

Cheers, Danny

[Slank]

On 4/24/2017 at 8:07 AM, Eddie said:

Hey howya goin all, built this back wheel on the first day I got the kit just to see how big it was thats 1:10 scale for ya.  

Eddie how did you do the spokes in the hub to the rim process

[Old Collingwood]

Would love to see any progress with this.

 

OC.

[mtaylor]

Eddie seems to disappeared into the void.  His last post was in 2017.

[CJB]

I bought this wagon for my husband, the DVD for the instructions doesn’t work. Not happy, unsure where to get the building instructions again. It took over a month to receive it in the mail, don’t want to have to wait that long again 

 

[CJB]

Don’t have the building instructions for the stage coach, the DVD is blank. Totally useless, where an I get instructions for the 1848 stage coach please