Here is a 1/12th scale model of a Shand Mason, Horse Drawn, Steam Driven Water Pumper and once again it’s “Scratchbuilt”.
This model was made from the working drawings by Edgar T Westbury and the working drawings were acquired from the 'Guild of Model Wheelwright’s’.
It's a NON steamer, because playing with steam in this scale is a bit 'iffy', get one crossed thread and it then becomes a 'bomb', so it does NOT steam AT ALL, it now just resides in a glass cabinet as a “static” model.
Paint is just plain ordinary enamel house paint, it is amazing at what sort of a finish you can get from using enamel paint without ANY polishing at all.
All the waterslide decals are done in house, using an ALPS MD 5500 printer combined with CorelDraw running on an old Windows XP computer.
Mainly of timber construction, as well as using a heck of a lot of machined brass bits, the two chassis rails were made by machining out two pieces of solid brass.
The steel tyres are just that 'steel', along with a bits of Acrylic using different thickness's of sheet Acrylic and whatever else I could use, that would be appropriate for the job.
Acrylic is a wonderfull medium for use on models, it's harder than polystyrene and far cheaper, that’s if you go dumpster diving for it.
I had to have the drawings reduced to 1/12th scale, so I could make all the parts as per the exact size on the drawings.
These plans were originally drawn to 1/6th scale by Edgar Westbury, so you could make a fully operational 1/6th scale working steam model, if you so desired.
These were first published in the English version of the ‘Model Engineer’ in about the middle of the 1960’s and the magazine ran a new section on another bit/piece that was required for the model, in each new addition for a couple of years.
These drawings were not quite exactly the same as an original Shand Mason, as these drawings were for a 1/6th scale working model, so a few deviations from the original vehicles were in these working drawings of Edgar T Westbury, so you could make a miniature working model of a Shand Mason look-a-like.
This model took me over fifteen months of work to get it to look like this, there were quite a few bits of brass that I had to machine, so it took quite a lot longer than other models I have made.
Work got in the way as well, plenty of weekends away working and many late nights included.
Had to do a heck of a lot of polishing after making all those brass bits, then clear coated them to keep that shine for many years to come.
First is a photo I found on the web and liked the look of it, so I did a bit of checking/research and I soon found a set of working drawings which were similar to one of these machines.
Then onto other photo’s showing some of the construction work and then a few photo’s of the finished item.
This model was made from the working drawings by Edgar T Westbury and the working drawings were acquired from the 'Guild of Model Wheelwright’s’.
It's a NON steamer, because playing with steam in this scale is a bit 'iffy', get one crossed thread and it then becomes a 'bomb', so it does NOT steam AT ALL, it now just resides in a glass cabinet as a “static” model.
Paint is just plain ordinary enamel house paint, it is amazing at what sort of a finish you can get from using enamel paint without ANY polishing at all.
All the waterslide decals are done in house, using an ALPS MD 5500 printer combined with CorelDraw running on an old Windows XP computer.
Mainly of timber construction, as well as using a heck of a lot of machined brass bits, the two chassis rails were made by machining out two pieces of solid brass.
The steel tyres are just that 'steel', along with a bits of Acrylic using different thickness's of sheet Acrylic and whatever else I could use, that would be appropriate for the job.
Acrylic is a wonderfull medium for use on models, it's harder than polystyrene and far cheaper, that’s if you go dumpster diving for it.
I had to have the drawings reduced to 1/12th scale, so I could make all the parts as per the exact size on the drawings.
These plans were originally drawn to 1/6th scale by Edgar Westbury, so you could make a fully operational 1/6th scale working steam model, if you so desired.
These were first published in the English version of the ‘Model Engineer’ in about the middle of the 1960’s and the magazine ran a new section on another bit/piece that was required for the model, in each new addition for a couple of years.
These drawings were not quite exactly the same as an original Shand Mason, as these drawings were for a 1/6th scale working model, so a few deviations from the original vehicles were in these working drawings of Edgar T Westbury, so you could make a miniature working model of a Shand Mason look-a-like.
This model took me over fifteen months of work to get it to look like this, there were quite a few bits of brass that I had to machine, so it took quite a lot longer than other models I have made.
Work got in the way as well, plenty of weekends away working and many late nights included.
Had to do a heck of a lot of polishing after making all those brass bits, then clear coated them to keep that shine for many years to come.
First is a photo I found on the web and liked the look of it, so I did a bit of checking/research and I soon found a set of working drawings which were similar to one of these machines.
Then onto other photo’s showing some of the construction work and then a few photo’s of the finished item.
