Flat Bed Wagon by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD

[Dan Vadas]

Hi all,

 

My next major model will be a German Steam Locomotive built between 1931 and 1943 designated "Bulgar". The model itself still hasn't arrived from MODELIK in Poland, so I bought a Modelik Flat Bed Wagon which will be displayed behind the loco along with two other wagons. I got this one from Fenten's Models in Brisbane to give me something to do while I'm waiting. It only took a few days to arrive, pity they didn't have the loco in stock  .

 

Here's a pic of the cover art and another of several views of the completed model :

 

I started with the wheels. The construction of these is different to any other wheels I've made in the past. A good design, but some of the parts weren't a perfect fit (more about that below). Here are most of the parts for them, which I've already prepared :

 

The kit suggested building a jig to assemble them, another good idea which I've adopted :

 

To roll the rim edge I used a socket of the appropriate size :

 

Nearly all done. The parts that were a bit narrow were the outer rims, missed by about 0.5mm  :

 

Danny

[maaaslo]

If i may suggest Danny, the top quality locos are considered to be Angraf. I have had a look through a few of them, nearly half a thickness of a Bible. And beautyfully drawn. Mostly without any problems from what i heard.

[Dan Vadas]

3 hours ago, maaaslo said:

If i may suggest Danny, the top quality locos are considered to be Angraf. I have had a look through a few of them, nearly half a thickness of a Bible. And beautyfully drawn. Mostly without any problems from what i heard.

Thanks Pav. I'd never heard of Angraf - a bit late now, but I'll see if I can find their site.

 

EDIT - Found one : ANSWER MODELS. I looked at some of the models and agree with your assessment.

 

Danny

[TOM G]

Here's a site i just bounce'd across while looking up angraf.......... maybe i'll make one of these and hang it from the p-26🙂                                                      https://www.ecardmodels.com/product/1-24-little-boy-atomic-bomb-paper-model/     i did'nt see this at first but they got this one also https://www.ecardmodels.com/product/1-24-fat-man-atomic-bomb-paper-model/

Edited September 1, 2019 by TOM G
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[Papa]

Dan,

do you ever sleep? You are turning out beautiful paper models faster than I can read the postings!

 

Ron Gove

[amateur]

Did you order the laserset that goes with the loco? 

Saves you time, as it incluses the spoked wheel and the frames (as far as I understood in a card-forum). It is a serious locomotive: you'll need some shelve-space when finished

 

Jan

Edited September 1, 2019 by amateur

[Dan Vadas]

On 9/2/2019 at 3:18 AM, amateur said:

Did you order the laserset that goes with the loco? 

Saves you time, as it incluses the spoked wheel and the frames (as far as I understood in a card-forum). It is a serious locomotive: you'll need some shelve-space when finished

 

Jan

Sure did Jan. I usually always get any available laser-cut sets with every card model I buy. In addition to the wheels etc I also got laser-cut rivets and bolt heads - somewhere around 7,000 of them .

 

It's big all right - around 750mm long. Add to that the three carriages that are behind it and the display will be nearly 2 metres long .

 

Danny

[popeye the sailor]

sounds like a very interesting model.......do you have the others on order?

[amateur]

Rivets, yeah, should have known...

 

jan

Edited September 3, 2019 by amateur

[gjdale]

14 hours ago, Dan Vadas said:

I also got laser-cut rivets and bolt heads - somewhere around 7,000 of them

I guess this officially makes you a “rivet counter” Danny! 😀

[amateur]

When you receive the kit, can you give us some of the history?

Fentens advertises it as a Polish machine, named Bulgar, sometimes it is referred to as a German machine, but the pics in the internet suggest that it is a Bulgarian one (build in Poland, nicknamed 'Mother Bear')

(registration number 46.03)

(btw nice pattern for the rivetting :))

Jan

[popeye the sailor]

you'll be doing an entire tutorial just on the wheels!   

[pontiachedmark]

Gidday Dan.

The size of this one is impressive.

I am looking forward to your progress.

Wishing you all the best.

Mark.

 

 

[maaaslo]

On 9/2/2019 at 10:04 PM, Dan Vadas said:

 

It's big all right - around 750mm long. Add to that the three carriages that are behind it and the display will be nearly 2 metres long .

 

So, what are you going to start building next? I assume this all will be finished by xmas...

[Dan Vadas]

On 9/3/2019 at 9:14 AM, popeye the sailor said:

sounds like a very interesting model.......do you have the others on order?

They are all coming together, when they EVENTUALLY get here. I ordered them 2 months ago - coming by Snail Mail .

 

"When you receive the kit, can you give us some of the history? Fentens advertises it as a Polish machine, named Bulgar, sometimes it is referred to as a German machine"

Yep, I'll post that in the loco's build log. 20 of them were built in both Germany (8) and Poland (12) between 1931 and 1943. Some did indeed go to Bulgarian Railways.

BTW - nice picture. Thanks for that. .

 

"I assume this all will be finished by xmas..."

Maybe a bit longer - there are 32 A3 size pages of parts, plus all the laser-cut ones.

 

Danny

 

[reklein]

For the size of that boiler sure has a small fuel bunker. Must be a short haul loco for some special commodity.

[Canute]

Or maybe a helper engine pushing heavy trains up hills. Hope it had a stoker appliance to push fuel into the firebox, too.

[Dan Vadas]

I haven't updated for a while but I've been busy building . Here's the main bed :

 

The start of the suspension. This was very tricky to work out as the instruction pics were rather vague. This is one of the 8 axle boxes :

 

The  brackets that connect the left and right suspensions. The instructions said to paint the back side of each piece, but I printed out some thin paper with a matching pattern that I drew up in Paint. This was glued to the back of each piece after I'd cut and folded it. The edges were deliberately left long and I trimmed them after the glue dried :

 

Danny 

[Dan Vadas]

The suspension in stages of construction :

 

The paper parts in this pic are the springs. I made my own from softened 0.5mm brass wire :

 

One of the finished suspensions :

 

Danny

[amateur]

Which, as expected, looks far better than the paper parts 

Jan

[Canute]

Nicely done trucks, Danny.

[popeye the sailor]

the brass axles is a nice touch......not part of the kit,  I would imagine.   definitely will add to the strength of the truck   ......    the springs look good too.......as well as the 'I' beam construction........looks quite real   

[Dan Vadas]

The wagon is finished. I've given it a couple of coats of semi-gloss clear.

 

I'll have to do a modification to the bogie mountings later, when I know how high to make the the buffers sit. I have to wait on the rest of the kits to establish that. The difference is that this wagon was a narrow-gauge one and the loco and other wagons are standard (European) gauge so they are different heights. This occurs in "real life" as well - when shifting a wagon from a narrow gauge track onto the main line standard gauge the bogies are replaced with specially modified ones, which usually takes less time than unloading and re-loading the cargo. This is common practice in Europe and several other places in the world. HERE is some information about the process.

 

Here are the final pics :

 

Danny

[pontiachedmark]

Gidday Danny.

Fantastic work.

The usual high standard.

I am looking forward to your further posts.

All the best.

Mark.

[popeye the sailor]

nicely done Danny........I see the trucks move as well.    you did a super job with this one  

[Dan Vadas]

10 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

I see the trucks move as well.    you did a super job with this one  

The wheels also turn  .

 

Danny

[thibaultron]

Well done!

[Dan Vadas]

STILL WAITING for my Locomotive kit  , I decided to enhance the wagon with a load of logs. I downloaded some pictures of real logs and modified the sizes in Paint.net to suit the wagon. These took me quite a while to make, but it's filled in the time  :

 

I made them in four size diameters :

 

To save on paper and ink I only made the middle logs 20mm long :

 

I also made up some lashing chains and tensioners :

 

Danny

[Canute]

Danny, nicely done. Very credible garden railway scale logging car. We've got a few at my rail club's outdoor railway. And an often used trick with the short logs. Looking good. 👍

[Dan Vadas]

38 minutes ago, Canute said:

Very credible garden railway scale logging car

Thanks Ken. "Garden Railway" ??? It's a bit smaller than that - 1:25, which I think is "1" Gauge or a bit bigger   .

 

Danny