Late last week I started not to feel well the wife immediately looked at me and said man flue yet again. I was instantly excluded from sitting room and banished to the spare bedroom..
I noticed a small green wagon that looked forgotten and forlorn, at that very instant the wife shouted parcel and I sneakily went down stairs and grabbed the parcel opened it to find 10 pieces of balsa wood and wondered what I could make.
I remember going to Manchester for a few days and noticed an Urban Search and rescue vehicle (USAR) passing with lengths of timber to support buildings ceiling and doorways and to stop any part of the building collapsing.
So with a thought in my head I started to measure up the trailer part and cut a piece of 1mm thick balsa wood to fit inside the trailer and then fit in some lengths of balsa on top to simulate the timber.
What's that wise piece of advice given by Tommy Walsh (Ground force) measure it twice and cut once, well I did that and was only about a 1mm out, 20 mins later using some speciality bought nail files it fitted like a glove. Feeling chuffed I started cutting the long lengths of timber the first three went great pride comes before a fall lengths four and five didn't fit and needed sanding to get them to fit inside also I noticed at this point that I had miss measured the length and and needed to be reduced by 1mm to get a nice fit. (note to self always check the model for any difficult areas).
Measured up the next level of timber while doing this I noticed 3 pieces of balsa (which I had glued together to be placed on a Oxford diecast modern truck nooteboom low loader trailer with ramps. I original wanted a to get a 1:76 flatbed trailer by itself (no cab) as I already had one which I purchased a year ago).
Out came my trusty junior hacks taking off 3cm to fit the required space, I then had to to cut another 2 pieces of balsa wood to make up the width of the vehicle.
I was about to glue the newly cut balsa pieces on the vehicle looked at what I was doing and thought I need some spacers, outcomes the 1mm balsa board yet again and cut some 1mm wide pieces so a moffat mounty fork lift could be fitted at the end of model to lift of the lengths of wood as required.
Will have to wait till early July when the supplier I bought one comes back from holiday to purchase another one and to see if he has any smaller ones in stock or can print me one off. Here hoping and fingers crossed.
Unable to get on with this project at the moment as I am still waiting the arrival of a second pack of thinner balsa wood to arrive hopefully next week or ebay and the supplier will be getting emails.
While surfing ebay I noticed a company selling Pre cut pieces of soft leather 15cm x 10cm (6" x 4") Nominal thickness 0.6-0.8mm priced at £1.49 a sheet plus postage and packing (£1.50) (manxsue) and created some rolled tarpaulins for a future project. Will be looking at the site shortly for a slightly thicker leather to create some tarpaulins the green wagon.
The list for these 2 projects continually grows by the day.
Whether to buy some thin chain to use as straps or some 1:76 scale /00 gauge canvas laser cut straps and ratchets from (Shedring models of Scotland) which I found to be a bit fiddly to fit. Which I could find a strap which would just hook under a trailer with out the use of glue. Lol Lol
Peter
I noticed a small green wagon that looked forgotten and forlorn, at that very instant the wife shouted parcel and I sneakily went down stairs and grabbed the parcel opened it to find 10 pieces of balsa wood and wondered what I could make.
I remember going to Manchester for a few days and noticed an Urban Search and rescue vehicle (USAR) passing with lengths of timber to support buildings ceiling and doorways and to stop any part of the building collapsing.
So with a thought in my head I started to measure up the trailer part and cut a piece of 1mm thick balsa wood to fit inside the trailer and then fit in some lengths of balsa on top to simulate the timber.
What's that wise piece of advice given by Tommy Walsh (Ground force) measure it twice and cut once, well I did that and was only about a 1mm out, 20 mins later using some speciality bought nail files it fitted like a glove. Feeling chuffed I started cutting the long lengths of timber the first three went great pride comes before a fall lengths four and five didn't fit and needed sanding to get them to fit inside also I noticed at this point that I had miss measured the length and and needed to be reduced by 1mm to get a nice fit. (note to self always check the model for any difficult areas).
Measured up the next level of timber while doing this I noticed 3 pieces of balsa (which I had glued together to be placed on a Oxford diecast modern truck nooteboom low loader trailer with ramps. I original wanted a to get a 1:76 flatbed trailer by itself (no cab) as I already had one which I purchased a year ago).
Out came my trusty junior hacks taking off 3cm to fit the required space, I then had to to cut another 2 pieces of balsa wood to make up the width of the vehicle.
I was about to glue the newly cut balsa pieces on the vehicle looked at what I was doing and thought I need some spacers, outcomes the 1mm balsa board yet again and cut some 1mm wide pieces so a moffat mounty fork lift could be fitted at the end of model to lift of the lengths of wood as required.
Will have to wait till early July when the supplier I bought one comes back from holiday to purchase another one and to see if he has any smaller ones in stock or can print me one off. Here hoping and fingers crossed.
Unable to get on with this project at the moment as I am still waiting the arrival of a second pack of thinner balsa wood to arrive hopefully next week or ebay and the supplier will be getting emails.
While surfing ebay I noticed a company selling Pre cut pieces of soft leather 15cm x 10cm (6" x 4") Nominal thickness 0.6-0.8mm priced at £1.49 a sheet plus postage and packing (£1.50) (manxsue) and created some rolled tarpaulins for a future project. Will be looking at the site shortly for a slightly thicker leather to create some tarpaulins the green wagon.
The list for these 2 projects continually grows by the day.
Whether to buy some thin chain to use as straps or some 1:76 scale /00 gauge canvas laser cut straps and ratchets from (Shedring models of Scotland) which I found to be a bit fiddly to fit. Which I could find a strap which would just hook under a trailer with out the use of glue. Lol Lol
Peter
