A beautiful piece of work....thanks for the update Joe.
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Actually Joe there was a whole car load of us and we all pitched in...cheers, Rick H.Comment
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Hi Joe
I missed this I'm sorry to say but just had a most enjoyable catch up. I've not seen a multi media kit like this built before. I must say the kit looks impressive. You are certainly making a superb job of this. Your care, patience and attention to detail will result in a superb model.
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Joe
I very interesting change to see this being built. Great job so far and sitting back waiting for more developments.
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Beautiful work, agree with Rick over the tape work, really good. You must be pleased with this.Comment
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Joe,
Lovely work. Are all the little detail parts included or are you scratching them, for example the door handles.Comment
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Great progress joe , the pinstripes look amazing . Loving this , cheers tonyComment
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Cheers Jim, glad you're enjoying the build.
Thanks John, southern update coming soon.
Cheers John, I'm happy with the progress so far. Want sure how the stopping would work out, not perfect but acceptable
Thanks mate. The tiny parts are provided as indicated, brackets etc. The handles and bars, poles etc are created from the various media provided in the kit, so some scratch building is required. I'm finding this easier than a lot of those ancient plastic kits, it just requires better planning and attention as it is quite complex.
Cheers Tony, thanks for your kind comments.Comment
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Update time, a bit later than suggested. But here I am :thumb2:
The completed the front centre panel, with the light installed, is also a door. Holes were drilled into each end of the panel and a portion of brass rod inserted to act as a hinge. These are inserted into holes drilled into the base and the front top piece. It comes together to make this up:
Then we move on to making up the seating for the open end of the cable car. The first part of this is to make up the two fronts of the bench seats, as done in the enclosed cabin seating.
Then the seat structure is created.
The metal edges are secured to the backs of the larger pieces using glue and small nails:
The seat formers are set in place on the base:
Problem, the rubber surface doesn't allow the final piece on the left side against the wall to fit. It has to be removed.
Fixed
We allow all that to dry with clamps, and then it will be using strips to make the bench seats exactly as in the earlier stage.
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The front seat panels are set in position:
Strips are used to make up the seating:
A couple of coats of varnish later:
Seats are now complete, with the exception of an arm rest that is attached later on in the build.Comment
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These lengths of wood are going to be sanded down to create a slightly rounded area within the pencil marks, to give a sort of 'waist' to the poles. These poles will be set vertically in front of the front area seats and will have hand hold bars attached.
Sanding...
Sanded. The effect is subtle yet noticeable when set in place:
1 mm holes are then drilled part way through each post, ensuring that each row of holes are lined up according to the instructions. Into these holes will go the hand hold brass ends:
The poles are inserted into the base and horizontal beams are attached to the front top piece. Some rubber parts will require sorting at the base of the poles:
These thin strips are to be painted the red shade and will be attached to the sides of the front panels to neaten them up. The poles and horizontal beams are also varnished:
1 mm holes are also drilled into the new strips, in line with the pole holes. The hand hold bars on these front panels will be full length, into the holes you see in the picture above in the front bumper.
Rod strips that will make up the hand hold bars, along with other upcoming pieces that will need to be white, are painted
Each hand hold bar is made up of two brass ball ends, and a length of the white painted rod strip. The brass ball ends are inserted into the 1 mm holes:
The front hand hold bars proved troublesome. The rod is slightly larger than the brass ball ends, so some trimming was required. As the lower brass ball end sits half way up the front poles, this meant some touching up with a paint brush after repairs were made. The result at the end of all this:
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Attention is then turned to the rear of the cable car. The top piece of the rear end is at the top of the picture, the middle piece has had the rod strips installed. Through the larger side holes will be two poles that make up the structure.
The middle section with rod strips installed, is painted yellow. Black on the tops of the rod strips simulate large rivets.
They mate like this:
The completed section is installed into the rear of the base. Care is taken to ensure the whole structure remains level, and that there is no sinking of poles lower than the base holes. To help prevent this, and potential problems after drying, I quickly glued the top horizontal beams in place and held there until dry with clamps. Much success was had
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Next mission was to install the rear panel. It comes as bare aluminium and must be primed first. It was painted white earlier on, and is ready for installation here.
I make 'brackets' using thin strips of brass and an off cut sample of the larger poles that make up the rear section. I bend the equal-length strips around the off cut, using pliers to clamp. Care is taken to ensure the holes at each end of each bracket line up. For this I used the pin vise drill to help.
Brackets are painted white
These nuts and bolts are used to secure the brackets to the panel, around the main poles. Scale proof that these things are tiny. Excess bolt length will be cut off after installation.
First side. Cock up No.106. The bolts are facing outward, when the panel is swung around the bolt heads should be visible, not the nut side. I didn't take a corrected picture, you get the idea I'm sure.
The bolts corrected, the panel was swung across for securing to the other side. This is one of the biggest fights I've had for a long time, the f***ing thing would not reach my carefully crafted brackets. Swearing makes me feel better in such circumstances, and after a good hour of blasphemy and ulcer generating anger, I managed to stretch that ba***rd across and secured it in place for eternity. It is never coming off in one piece again.
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