2-6-6-4 "Bulgar" Steam Locomotive by Dan Vadas - Modelik - 1:25 - CARD - FINISHED

[Dan Vadas]

I've just spent about 4 hours cutting and fitting four windows. I've sandwiched some 0.25mm clear acrylic between the outer frame and the wall by cutting the hole in the lamination piece 0.5mm larger than the skin piece. They turned out perfect :

Danny

[Dziadeczek]

Exquisite build of an exquisite model!  Congratulations!

Just wanted to make sure your plate reads "CEGIELSKI" and not "CEGIEISKI", as below. (It is a well known Polish locomotive manufacturer, even today.)

[reklein]

Crazy good modelling Danny. Perfect for someone who likes a large parts count.

[Javlin]

Gawd!! Kevin

[popeye the sailor]

what did they supply for the plumbing.........your use of the metal rod is a better alternative    the boiler looks awesome!  nice work on the cab glass too!

[vaddoc]

I ve been following all your paper builds Danny.. Mighty nice! And mighty small...

 

[Dan Vadas]

21 hours ago, Dziadeczek said:

Exquisite build of an exquisite model!  Congratulations!

Just wanted to make sure your plate reads "CEGIELSKI" and not "CEGIEISKI", as below. (It is a well known Polish locomotive manufacturer, even today.)

 

All good now, I fixed it. Just a slip of the pen originally  .

 

"what did they supply for the plumbing.........your use of the metal rod is a better alternative"

They don't supply anything for plumbing, but metal rod or wire is specified in the instructions. Most of these have a diagram you can follow, plus the size of wire.

 

Thanks everyone else for the comments. This is a most enjoyable model to build from a good publisher. The kit has a few small problems, but which kit doesn't? Nothing I haven't been able to work around.

 

Danny

[James H]

How the HELL do you make card look like plastic? 🤩

[ccoyle]

Catching up on your build, Danny. I see you have mastered the dreaded "petal fold" -- the bane of card modelers everywhere. Excellent work so far!

[michael mott]

Wow! Danny you make working with the card look easy, and you keep it all so clean.

 

Michael

[Dan Vadas]

On 12/13/2019 at 9:05 AM, James H said:

How the HELL do you make card look like plastic? 🤩

James, I think it might be just a bit harder to make plastic look like paper  .

 

Thank you Chris. A lot depends on how well the publisher has drawn the cut-outs for the petals. Then it comes down to accurate cutting - being a right-hander cutting the left side of the cut-out is easy enough, but it requires a counter-clockwise turn of the wrist to cut the right hand side without leaving an "over-cut". I colour the edges of the cuts before bending into the required shape before gluing. On larger bends some extra support under the skin is usually also required. I finish off by running a light-grade sanding stick over the join and re-touching the colour if needed.

 

The fireman's and engineer's control area of the cabin. Lots of fiddly interesting bits to add here  . I started with the firebox door :

Next come the gauges - 3 parts for each plus an additional disc to maintain the right thickness :

Also two levers and a sliding turnscrew and wheel for the brakes :

According to the instructions these two boxes are something to do with a lubricating system (unless it was lost in translation  ). A lot of work involved with these, starting with 13 hex-head fittings that have a 0.6mm hole in the middle for the piping. These fittings are only 1mm wide and took a bit of thought as to their manufacturing process. I started by spraying the sheet with gloss clear to give them some additional strength, punching the holes in them while they were all still on the sheet and then proceeding as usual for a hex-head bolt :

The pipes are 0.5mm black powdercoated copper wire used for bead making. I'm not sure about where they go after turning the corner, nothing shown in the instructions so this was my take on it :

A few more pieces will be added to this area later in the build.

 

Danny

[maaaslo]

i found this for you:

https://papermodels.pl/thread-10114.html

Edited December 14, 2019 by maaaslo

[Dan Vadas]

23 hours ago, maaaslo said:

i found this for you:

https://papermodels.pl/thread-10114.html

 

Oh ........ dear   . Now THAT is nice - way beyond my pay grade  . The thing is I'm building in paper because I don't want to paint, or as little as possible anyway  .

 

Thanks Pav.

 

Danny

[maaaslo]

are you going to rip it apart now? if so, i am so sorry i found those...

 

[Dan Vadas]

On 12/17/2019 at 5:32 AM, maaaslo said:

are you going to rip it apart now? if so, i am so sorry i found those...

 

No, I won't be ripping anything out  . I have used those pics and the website they came from to enhance my model a bit, so thanks for posting them  . I'm leaving the lubrication pipes where they are as they don't interfere with anything else. I won't be going to the extent that the other guy did - he's used some 3D printed fittings which I can't get for a few weeks (but I ordered some). Most of the difference with our models is that he's painted his, which I won't be doing.

 

I've made the two sides of the cab. Here's my procedure for glazing the windows :

And the completed sides :

Danny

[Dan Vadas]

More plumbing fitted :

I've also fitted the cab to the boilers and added a temporary support under the front of the boiler while work continues :

Danny

 

[Dan Vadas]

The coal bunker has also been made. I'll fit this to the cab after I've done a bit more detailing to the controls :

The ladders and lights :

The completed coal bunker :

Danny

[druxey]

Impressive stuff, Dan!

[popeye the sailor]

comm'in along splendidly Danny    very nice!

[FriedClams]

Nice neat work Danny - everything fitting together cleanly and accurately.  Seeing the boiler propped up on your bench really gives a good indication of the model’s size.  It is a little larger than I was imagining.  Looking great.

 

Gary

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks for the comments guys, and also to all those who "Liked" my posts  .

 

I've done all the cab detailing that I'm going to do. A few of these parts will be a bit difficult to see when the cab is completed, but the pics are proof that they are in there  .

 

This triple valve is made from brass tubing and styrene rod. The handwheels are laser-cut paper :

Two scratchbuilt switch panels :

Now I could fit the sides. The fit was perfect  :

Some final pics of the cab interior before things get harder to see :

 

Danny

[Dan Vadas]

The roof is lined on the inside as well. I pre-formed it before gluing it on. There are 8 air vents in the top section :

The coal bunker has now been fitted to the cab, and the cab roof as well. It sounds easy when you say it quickly  :

 

Next job will be to fit the entire boiler/cab/coal bunker unit to the chassis.

 

Danny

[vulcanbomber]

It's brilliant Danny.

 

My card model has arrived now and I can't believe the quality of the kit, especially the laser cut parts.

[amateur]

Everytime I see pics of my own models in macrosetting, I realize how perfect your building is:

No sloppy cutting, no glue on the wrong side of the card, no nothing.....

 

Absolutely stunning. 

 

Jan

[popeye the sailor]

look'in superb Danny........quite a bit of progress since I last looked in!                                                                                                                                                                                                               

[Dan Vadas]

There was a mistake with the kit much earlier in the build, which means that the cab/boiler/bunker won't go on properly. The section below is 1.5mm too deep (I cut it right  ) so I had to remove it using a combination of scalpel and Isocol and fixed the problem :

It took me a couple of days to fit the sand pipes, all 24 of them. I still need to do the very bottoms of them, which I'll do a bit later in the build :

I made up some brackets to anchor the pipes above the wheels and keep them in position :

A couple more views of the pipes :

The last major sub-assemblies are the two water tanks alongside the boilers. Here's one of them during assembly of the framework :

After skinning the water tanks there came the job of gluing on the rivets - all 1,840 of them. I've had problems with the rivets coming off on the cab and coal bunker due to the clear coat on the kit, but I think I found the solution after a bit of experimenting. Isopropyl Alcohol removes the clear coat without harming the printed finish  :

Some lifting lugs. I'm going to re-do the four I did earlier on the coal bunker to match these as the others look too thin (0.3mm as compared to 0.5mm wire and a different shade of red as well) :

One of the tanks sitting in place. More work needs doing to it before I can do the final fitting :

Danny

[popeye the sailor]

some very nice work .......even though you found a snaff-fu.  you have the knack for mak'in 'er right  

[Moab]

OMG! It's RIVET TIME. Unbelievable! At least there's only 1840 of them. The engine is looking fantastic...Moab

[CapnMac82]

On 12/13/2019 at 4:42 PM, Dan Vadas said:

According to the instructions these two boxes are something to do with a lubricating system (unless it was lost in translation  )

Locomotives are marvelous things.  There are engineering considerations in almost all the moving parts.  So, things like bearings, bushings, journals, and the like have to either be durable and replaceable, or require considerable lubrication.  Preferably while not stopping, or without needing oil sumps on every single thing, too.

 

The solution was to install an oil tank and either pressurize the lines with steam, or to use steam to power a pump to keep the oil moving to all the appropriate parts.  It was middling common on US steam locomotives in the 40s & 50s.  Especially the big "western" locomotives.

[Canute]

Every station stop was an opportunity for the crew to "oil around" the loco. Most US engines were swapped out about every 100 miles for added servicing. All the services needed for each loco was a big reason for the rush to dieselize after WW 2.