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What's on the bench 2022
- Thread starter Graeme C.
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Wow Guys, really great stuff getting built here. I've been off the forum for a bit, but have tried to keep busy at the table. I have been doing a lot of scratchy behind the scenes. Mostly making brake systems for a trailer and a flatcar along with other mods too,
And the flatcar brake system was real fun to do too,
If I didn't have to cement the brake shoe triangle pieces, the whole system would work like the real thing.....Keep up the good work!!!
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Allen
And the flatcar brake system was real fun to do too,
If I didn't have to cement the brake shoe triangle pieces, the whole system would work like the real thing.....Keep up the good work!!!
Prost
Allen
Excellent stuff. Love the brake gear, especially the cranks around the bow strings. I thought they were backwards to start with, then realised that they are air braked, not vacuum braked as on UK stuff. The pistons therefore move the “other way” to ours LOL :thumb2:
Originally designed with 8.8cm Flak 41 in mind. There are pictures of it in use for evaluation both with old 88 & newer one.
wow those pics are so clear I thought you'd switched to 1-6 scale!
top stuff Allen
Allen,
Looking very good mate some nice clean scratchery going on.
Jack, that is very nice indeed the paint job is excellent.
Cracking stuff Allen. On the bench just now with blocks and eyepins and they past the test so 78 and a 118 to go.
Time consuming but like all scratches interesting at the beginning.
Cheers,
Richard
Time consuming but like all scratches interesting at the beginning.
Cheers,
Richard
I mean passed the test...:confounded:
Tim - Thanks Sir, the trailer brakes were mechanical with a spring loaded arm to actuate the brake drums. The other was air powered, but you knew that...
Neil - Great to see you Sir. No, I'm still using the ancient iPad and cropping the pics to post. Hope you well and not working too hard at the job...
Paul - Thanks Bro, I am getting back to the basics and not get lost down a rabbit hole with all the support equipment...
Richard - Thanks too Buddy, I can only wish you good luck with making all those thigimajigs. If you finish them all, I promise to come and visit you in the rubber room at the ward....
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Allen
Neil - Great to see you Sir. No, I'm still using the ancient iPad and cropping the pics to post. Hope you well and not working too hard at the job...
Paul - Thanks Bro, I am getting back to the basics and not get lost down a rabbit hole with all the support equipment...
Richard - Thanks too Buddy, I can only wish you good luck with making all those thigimajigs. If you finish them all, I promise to come and visit you in the rubber room at the ward....
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Allen
Something that came to mind after I posted Allen….are there any safety loops on the brake gear? British outline stuff would have had loops over the bowstrings and actuating rods in case anything fell off while moving and jammed in the track or points.
Today I tried my skills in woodworking, building a sprue holder out of a 10 cent MDF plank and 5€ of 6 mm wooden sticks.
Not really an "arts and crafts" masterpiece but it works and I hope it will allow me not to get mad at searching the needed sprue among the others, just to discover it's always the one on the bottom and possibly entangled with other two.
The wingy thing is the Douglas P70 waiting patiently for some good old bench time.
Andrea
Not really an "arts and crafts" masterpiece but it works and I hope it will allow me not to get mad at searching the needed sprue among the others, just to discover it's always the one on the bottom and possibly entangled with other two.
The wingy thing is the Douglas P70 waiting patiently for some good old bench time.
Andrea
Sorry for the late reply Tim. There were safety hoops on the Ommr flatcars, but in period photos, they are hard to see as most show the load and not the underside. Omms and others (SSys, G-10) probably had them too. I still have to add them along with other stuff to mine.
Prost
Allen
Lots on the bench: Apaches,
painting newly acquired figs,
a couple long wheelbase Corbits for my Bailey Bridge engineers, cleaning up & painting,
Hellcat-cleaning & cutting.
painting newly acquired figs,
a couple long wheelbase Corbits for my Bailey Bridge engineers, cleaning up & painting,
Hellcat-cleaning & cutting.
Looking good Paul, though I think that line of guys sitting there watching (always watching) would be a tad off putting 
Thanks guys.
They'll be gone to the armored infantry once their helmets are painted TIm.
They'll be gone to the armored infantry once their helmets are painted TIm.
Paul everything looks good I like the figs. I also see Resin and ech too what a toxic nightmare but the casting looks good hope it’s not to brittle. Thanks for sharing.
Tanks Lee, good castings, but it is awfully brittle. Some broken already, but fixable. PE grabs are too flat so will replace w/wire.
Considering my DIY sprue holder satisfactory result, I went forward and built a rotating support for the spray booth.
The base is plexiglas with an already encased ball bearing (thanks to the guys I helped to clean out and close their workshop last month). All I had to add was a wooden pin fitting the ball bearing, four anti-skid rubber supports and add the Swedish made cork trivet (collateral effect: I learned a new english word: trivet :thumb2.
The base is plexiglas with an already encased ball bearing (thanks to the guys I helped to clean out and close their workshop last month). All I had to add was a wooden pin fitting the ball bearing, four anti-skid rubber supports and add the Swedish made cork trivet (collateral effect: I learned a new english word: trivet :thumb2
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Hi Andrea
That turntable looks perfect. Very useful.
Jim
That turntable looks perfect. Very useful.
Jim
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