Joe's 1/22 Artesania Latina San Francisco Cable Car

[flyjoe180]

Something totally different and a cracking start,

Cheers Ian. I'll be catching up on some of your builds soon.

[flyjoe180]

Well you dont see one of these every day ( unless you live in San Francisco and drive a cable car :rolling Great start Joe , its coning together quite quickly , cheers tony

Thanks Tony. It probably equates so far to 10 hours of actual build work, I'm working at snail pace so as not to cock it up.

[flyjoe180]

Joe,
Count me in. Your off to a great start on a very unusual subject.

Thank you Paul, welcome along for the cable car ride.

[flyjoe180]

To bring us up to date, the latest installment.

I inserted those seat front panels, and rear 'structural' beams.


Shaped the front parts of the seats by curving and smoothing the front edge:



Then strips that make up the seats were glued into place, giving us:


Repeat for the other side, take a swig of your favourite beverage, then come back when the glue is dry. Two coats of varnish on the nice seats. Bit of a blemish on the near side, sort of a pale appearance. I saturated it in turps and tried the varnish again, allowing it to penetrate a little better. The blemish is still there, but it looks like wear on the seat which I can live with.


Then more strips of bass wood were cut up to length and the sides of the enclosed cabin were created in rough form.


Then it was onto today's activities. Cheers for checking in.

[Mini Me]

Shaping up nicely Joe. The seats do look the part. Rick H.

[flyjoe180]

Hot off the press.

Glue dried overnight and this morning I added some filler in gaps and undesirable gaps.


Then lots of sanding took place, leaving a smooth, or 'homogeneous' surface, as the instructions refer to it.



Next stage of the build is to mask 80% of the thing off, and paint the reddish colour onto the outside of the cabin.

[rtfoe]

This is turning into something really nice Joe. Good part of San Francisco's history in miniature and from a different medium we're acustomed to here. Love it.

Cheers,
Richard

[flyjoe180]

This is turning into something really nice Joe. Good part of San Francisco's history in miniature and from a different medium we're acustomed to here. Love it.

Cheers,
Richard

Thank you Richard. Lots more to go, I'm about a quarter of the way there.

[stillp]

Looks good Joe. I spent a few days in San Fran some years ago but didn't get to ride a streetcar - the queues were too long every time I went out, and a limo was only $2 to the waterfront.
Pete

[JR]

Hi Joe, a very well thought out build, agree about the wooden sections, too easy to get the same types mixed up.
Such a mix of materials in the kit as well. Looking fwd to this build.

[flyjoe180]

Masking, sanding...


Sanding, filling, priming, painting, sanding, filling, repeat until satisfied:


After two days I have a truly smooth surface with the blue band completed.



Next up is to mask the blue level off, and paint the reddish upper colour. I will report back when that red colour is on.

[papa 695]

Very nice work Joe, coming along very nicely.

[JR]

There's been a lot of effort put into that sanding Joe.

[yak face]

Smoooooth ! Top finishing joe

[Mini Me]

Like a babies backside...