What's on the bench 2022

[Tim Marlow]

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.

[Andy the Sheep]

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

[Allen Dewire]

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.

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

[minitnkr]

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.

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Paul, though I think that line of guys sitting there watching (always watching) would be a tad off putting

[minitnkr]

Thanks guys.
They'll be gone to the armored infantry once their helmets are painted TIm.

[Lee Drennen]

Lots on the bench: Apaches,
painting newly acquired figs,
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a couple long wheelbase Corbits for my Bailey Bridge engineers, cleaning up & painting,
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Hellcat-cleaning & cutting.
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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.

[minitnkr]

Tanks Lee, good castings, but it is awfully brittle. Some broken already, but fixable. PE grabs are too flat so will replace w/wire.

[Andy the Sheep]

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.

[Jim R]

Hi Andrea
That turntable looks perfect. Very useful.
Jim

[Tworrs]

I like that Andy, very nice.

[Lee Drennen]

Weathering these Custom Painted and Decaled Boxcars. I’ve been practicing my Weather Streaking effects on these not the best but I’m happy the way they turned out they should be off the bench by the weekend with new Trucks and Wheel sets and Kadee couplers and off to the layout

[Mini Me]

Looks good from here Lee..........good to see you have taken an interest in 1-87 scale again. :thumb2:

[Jim R]

Hi Lee
Very nice. They'll fit in nicely on the layout.
Jim

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Lee. Railway wagons are a great canvass for weathering. It always seems like no two are the same…..