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Miniatures Adventure => Railway Wargaming => Topic started by: Andy in Germany on April 02, 2018, 08:54:36 PM
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At some point in my introductions thread I mentioned that I'm coming from a background in 1:55 scale model railways, and it was suggested I could put up some photographs of what I've built. I am easily flattered so here we are:
1:55 is an oddball scale in model railways with a handful of people making models, usually based on 12mm gauge track representing 2' (600mm) gauge prototypes. There's almost no trade support and you have to make most things yourself. This was an attraction for me as at heart I'm a storyteller, and as far as I'm concerned the more I can make, the better I can tell the story. I realised that if I use relatively inexpensive HO scale track and mechanisms in 1:55 scale, I could passably make Narrow Gauge models based on metre gauge (3'35/8") railways which were/are fairly common in Europe.
Cost is an important factor as I'm coming to the end of a long period of retraining due to ill health and we are (until May the first when I finally finish training and start work) on the German version of income support.
My 'main' project is called the 'Körschtalbahn' which will hopefully be a model of a German Metre gauge line as it could have been if development of narrow gauge railways had continued into the present day, with big diesel locomotives and fast railcars.
This project ic currently moving at the speed of a toroise on Prozac.
So far the main evidence is a railcar that I'm currently putting off painting until I work out exactly which shade of green it should be, seen here getting a coat of primer (I really must take another picture of this unit):
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/kc3b6b_vt1_07.jpg)
Because I keep getting stalled on that project, mostly because it's my 'baby' and I'm afraid of making a mistake, I started on another model in the same scale but using 9mm gauge (N gauge) track. This would have come out as about 500mm or somewhere in the region of 18" gauge in real life, a gauge used for small industrial railways and park pleasure railways, not a common carrier/freight and passenger line, but I ignored that inconvenient reality.
This model is set in a world where The economic crash of 2008 was the abrupt end of oil as a readily available resource. since then globalisation has one into reverse and transport has become increasingly difficult. The village in the model has joined with others locally to rebuild an industrial railway into a local transport line so produce can get to market and children can get to school.
I moved a bit faster on this one with a Krokodil locomotive emerging from the workbench about eighteen months ago:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/hbb_krokodil_18.jpg)
This was followed by a railcar last year:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/hbb_railcar_26.jpg)
And I made some progress on a railway to run them on:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/gate_09.jpg)
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/backscene_01_05.jpg)
Unfortunately the model managed to to be too small to be practical (trains kept hitting each other an random bits of scenery) while being big and bulky to store in our tiny apartment, so I packed away the trains and buildings until time and circumstances allow me to make something that works.
In the meantime I'm working on a heave diesel for the Körschtalban again, which is my main interest. I'm working on a model 'Based on' Brohltalbahn locomotive number D5 (http://www.vulkan-express.de/die-brohtalbahn/fahrzeuge/30-tfz-schmalspur/45-diesellokomotive-d5). 'Based on' being a very optimistic description. The model is seen here receiving drastic surgery after I realised it was 15mm too long due to me getting my sums wrong. Again:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/dh_1500_121.jpg)
Of course I'm now being distracted by making a steam powered tank and some leagues for Pulp Alley, but I'm sure I'll get back to the railway soon. I usually do.
I manage to write about the railway modelling most weeks on my blog at www.korschtal.wordpress.com (http://www.korschtal.wordpress.com)
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Great stuff 8)
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In the meantime I'm working on a heave diesel for the Körschtalban again, which is my main interest. I'm working on a model 'Based on' Brohltalbahn locomotive number D5 (http://www.vulkan-express.de/die-brohtalbahn/fahrzeuge/30-tfz-schmalspur/45-diesellokomotive-d5). 'Based on' being a very optimistic description. The model is seen here receiving drastic surgery after I realised it was 15mm too long due to me getting my sums wrong. Again:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/dh_1500_121.jpg)
Excellent, I perfectly recognize the iconic Henschel D5 that resembles the V160 family design. Your idea of a fictional railway is very loveable. We have a 500mm narrow gauge museum nearby. Regretfully they are open for public on rare occasions only, but I managed to ride their trains two years ago. Great project, I am looking forward to see more of your work! :-*
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I've just spent time browsing the Blog. The layout looks great.
Tony
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I've just spent time browsing the Blog. The layout looks great.
Tony
Thanks. I don't know when it will be possible to rebuild it. I've got my eye on some Ikea shelves at the moment but I'm torn between that and the metre gauge model that is my first interest. If the boys get into Pulp gaming I may have to make kits with them for a bit.
It's a hard life
Excellent, I perfectly recognize the iconic Henschel D5 that resembles the V160 family design. Your idea of a fictional railway is very loveable. We have a 500mm narrow gauge museum nearby. Regretfully they are open for public on rare occasions only, but I managed to ride their trains two years ago. Great project, I am looking forward to see more of your work! :-*
I'm glad it's at least visibly similar. I always wanted by own V160 (which I know as Br218 as I came to Germany in the early 2000's) and when I discovered Henschel made some NG versions I decided that was a prime candidate for my heavy diesel. Henschel made locomotives for Spain, Thailand, Ghana (I think) and Bulgaria and they were all slightly different, which is my excuse every time I make a mistake: "It's not wrong,just built slightly differently for this customer..."
There are already some variations: the railings on my version are recessed, and the ends will be raked but flat instead of being rounded like D5. The first because the Bulgarian locos have flush railings and I like the look, and the second because I want to finish the locomotive within the year and if I tried curved ends I'd be fretting about it for months...
If I don't get to distracted with the steam powered tank, I'll post progress...
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I always wanted by own V160 (which I know as Br218 as I came to Germany in the early 2000's)
BR 218 was only the latest version of the single-engine hydraulic transmission diesel, there were many predecessors which looked exactly the same at first glance. That's why we call it the V160 family ("Verbrennungsmotor (combustion engine) - 1.600hp").
You might be aware that there was a narrow gauge BR 251/252 too - very similar to the V100 family and rather close to your home... ;)
(https://static.panoramio.com.storage.googleapis.com/photos/large/9687043.jpg)
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BR 218 was only the latest version of the single-engine hydraulic transmission diesel, there were many predecessors which looked exactly the same at first glance. That's why we call it the V160 family
My sloppy communication as usual. Yes, I know there were several types, what I was trying to say was that by the time I was in Germany the only remaining classes as far as I remember were the Br128's with the distinctive 'ears'. I briefly looked at HO models then decided that at those prices I could build an NG model, and still feed the family for several weeks...
I did look at the Br251/2 as well, but I preferred the V160 shape, and besides, with lots more being built I have a better excuse for variations.
The little red Krokodil is loosely based on the V29 diesels (http://www.museumseisenbahn.de/jfahrzeug/v29.htm) though
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The little red Krokodil is loosely based on the V29 diesels (http://www.museumseisenbahn.de/jfahrzeug/v29.htm) though
Yes, I noticed that. :D
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(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/dh_1500_21.jpg)
It's been ages since I posted anything here, although that's partly because of work and othe pressures, and I'm getting distracted making ever more unlikely machines for Pulp Alley.
I’m moving at a speed that a glacier would probably consider tardy on this project, but I have finally managed to complete the sides and even attach them to the frame.
Appropriately, I’ve built the sides thick enough to be an ice breaker, partly for strength and partly because it made it easier to be sure the angled sides would be the same on both sides of the locomotive. I tend to think this is even more critical than getting the ends perfectly identical because it is relatively difficult to see both ends for comparison when the loco is on a model, whereas it’s quite common to see it end on.
The thick sides also made things like the steps and handrails easier to fit. I used recessed handlebars on this model, not because I’m such a model making genius but because I thought it may be easier to get them straight, or if I didn’t I could hide the fact more easily with some weathering.
It’s worked for the most part, just about. Although somehow the body has managed to twist a small amount, it isn’t noticeable if you squint…
The original Henschel locomotives have a slight horizontal curve on the lower and upper parts of the nose which I’d like to repeat on the model, but I’m spending ages worrying about it instead of just getting on with the job. It would probably be more sensible to just make a straight end like the Bulgarian Railway locomotives I started with, so I can finish the model and then build the second example as a more ‘pure’ Henschel, giving me two similar but not identical locomotives with slightly different capabilities.
Either way, it’s about time I stopped messing about and got on with it…
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Nice start on the locomotive.
That is a nice railcar.
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Excellent progress! I really like the look of those inset handrails.
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(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/dh_1500_22.jpg)
Thanks for the kind comments. There's not been a lot of progress here. As usual I was overthinking everything about the project, imagining a dozen different ways to make the curve on the nose and how they could all go horribly wrong.
Eventually I decided that it would be better to actually finish the model at some point and reverted to plan ‘A’.
The problem was that despite my early sketches of the loco I really wanted the distinctive chromed light clusters on the the Brohltalbahn’s D5 or its standard gauge cousin, the Deutsche Bahn type 218. It identifies the locomotive immediately and hopefully makes it clear that the model is in Germany as opposed to Austria or Switzerland. As this will be a somewhat unusual model I wanted to have as many of these visual cues as possible to set the scene quickly in viewers minds.
More to the point I really like the class 218.
For some reason I’d got stuck on the idea that if I didn’t make the nose curved I couldn’t have the 218 styled light bar because… um… Reasons. so I’d followed the idea down the rabbit hole and was looking at the headlight designs on the similar Bulgarian railways type 77 when I happened to come across a type 218 picture and noticed that it has flat ends. Of course it does. I’ve travelled behind class 218’s for hundreds of kilometres and every one of them had an absolute lack of curve on the ends. I’d just… missed it somehow.
Next problem is the lights, but I've a cunning plan for those...
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It's been a while since I posted here. I've been working on a modern panel van for my railway, as usual, painfully slowly...
Here's the first drawing:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/van_01_01.jpg)
Followed by the sides. Don't look too closely at the spacing on those panels...
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/van_01_02.jpg)
After a certain amount of swearing I got the sides to stay upright and vaguely square:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/van_01_04.jpg)
And after a certain amount more swearing I got a roof on:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/van_01_061.jpg)
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/van_01_08b.jpg)
Then details, although I have to admit I did make a few of these up as the details on the original were a bit too complex. I doubt anyone will notice, and you won't tell anyone, will you?
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/van_01_10.jpg)
And then, wheels:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/van_01_14.jpg)
I'm a bit further than this. will update when I remember to take pictures...
For those with a low boredom threshold there's more detail on the blog, starting here:
www.korschtal.wordpress.com/2018/07/21/drawing-board
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Excellent 8)
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Cracking job.
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Daaaammmn, now that's a scratchbuild.
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It does really look the part! I am used to the standard gauge sliding panel vans and that one reminds me very much of those.
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Very nice work.
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Very impressive.
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Inspiring modeling :-* :-*
LB
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Many thanks for the kind comments. It's very encouraging.
It does really look the part! I am used to the standard gauge sliding panel vans and that one reminds me very much of those.
Thanks Michi.The van is loosely based on a design used on the Metre gauge Rhaetian Bahn in Switzerland. They have a couple of designs of which this is the more complex: the plan is to make two 'simple' vans as well so I have a bit of variety.
At the current speed of working that may take some time...
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I'm starting on the next wagon to accompany the Big Van.
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/wood_01_02.jpg?w=500&h=187)
Way back in the mists of time when I'd just restarted making models, I tried to build one of these in 1:43 scale. I also started a couple of other wagons and a railcar, and they all looked pretty awful. Partly this was a lack of experience and partly because no matter how much I tried the mahoosive models I was making just didn’t fit the tiny wheel sets available, so I changed to 1:55 scale.
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/wood_01_01.jpg?w=500&h=249)
It shows how easily I can be distracted that it took nearly a decade before I got around to making this in 1:55.
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/wood_01_02.jpg?w=500&h=187)
I remember carefully making the original from fairly thin plastic sheet so I wouldn’t make the frame too thick. This is probably why the old model is now the shape of a banana.
The new version is a bit more pragmatic, made of several 0.5mm thick sections glued together, partly for strength and partly because that way I could use up the offcuts of 0.5mm thick plastic I had kicking about. I’m hoping the over scale thickness will be made up for by the model lasting a bit longer.
Besides, I can hide everything with weathering, right?
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Besides, I can hide everything with weathering, right?
That's what modelers do... :D
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That's what modelers do... :D
Aye. Can confirm. :D
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That's what modelers do... :D
Aye. Can confirm. :D
Thanks. It's good to know I'm not alone...
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Thanks. It's good to know I'm not alone...
There are more than you would believe...particularly with scratchbuilts:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RuX8Chw8GhU/UBI5MFuUZaI/AAAAAAAAFIw/2mOL8oyGJR0/s1600/Kn%C3%B6pfchenbilder+1165.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7tHpikrXjmE/UBI5fjwmtgI/AAAAAAAAFK4/-HRh1u5dXfw/s1600/Miniaturenfotos,+Originale+412.jpg)
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Man, that makes me think of the truck from "Duel". lol
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I like that truck.
How do you get that dirty windscreen/windscreen wiper effect?
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How do you get that dirty windscreen/windscreen wiper effect?
I put a dirty wash on the windscreen and wiped it away with the tip of a toothpick. The wood is softer than the plastic and does not harm the window, but takes away the paint. It´s rather easy. I did that a couple of times with other vehicles too:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IEn2IlqGOG0/SSrsIc9BSnI/AAAAAAAAAQo/7klliKhBIns/s1600/Figurenfotos+Michi+1+604.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IEn2IlqGOG0/SyfFlfB79WI/AAAAAAAACPo/jq7xbWFFrMQ/s1600/Miniaturenfotos,+Originale+232.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IEn2IlqGOG0/S9IjursjFRI/AAAAAAAADCM/kTbSeypvyOQ/s1600/Miniaturenfotos,+Originale+374.jpg)
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Lovely stuff there Michi. How do you weather the models in the first place? And do you use a template or the shape of the 'clean' bit of windscreen?
I've been working on the wood wagon. Slowly. I added the 'decking' after making a frame I'm pretty sure won't go bendy:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/wood_01_03.jpg)
Of course, I couldn’t go and choose a nice simple wagon with a flat deck, oh, no, I had to go for one with a complex arrangement involving a frame and lots of tiny, and rather battered aluminium cross pieces.
Will I ever learn?
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Great progress Andy!
Lovely stuff there Michi. How do you weather the models in the first place? And do you use a template or the shape of the 'clean' bit of windscreen?
I don't use a template, I simply follow the tips of the wipers on their way over the screen.
It's a plain wash in leatherbrown (some drops of acrylic paint with lots of water). That works perfectly for the brake dust on railway models too.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BkBf-8ct6MA/VIyZHuGZvqI/AAAAAAAAH-0/A1fPz9oIN6k/s1600/Kinderbilder%2B054.JPG)
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Very crisp 8)
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(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/wood_01_04.jpg)
Huzzah and three rousing cheers, the deck is completed.
The boredom factor was dealt with by the discovery of the excellent “Revolutions Podcast (https://www.revolutionspodcast.com)” which I recommend to anyone with a long and repetitive job to do. As an added positive I learned a lot of new things about the revolutions of 1848 and 1871, which I’m sure will guarantee me plenty of personal space at any future parties.
During the celebrations* surrounding the final decking piece being fitted I remembered that this was supposed to be an operational model, and that I therefore needed to fit bogies that could rotate. This caused an extra problem: I use nylon press studs as pivots, and I needed a good three millimetres clearance above the hole. This wasn’t an issue on the van because you basically have the entire van interior to hide the stud, but on this wagon I’d forgotten to take that 3mm into account.
Adding 3mm below the frame made the wagon sit too high.
Eventually brain engaged and I realised that if I made the connector for the stud 1mm from the underside of the deck, I could make a recess in the deck itself to give the required clearance for the bogie to turn.
This being a high precision engineering job I used the digital method: I put my finger on the top of the deck and twisted a drill bit from the other side until I could just feel the movement through the plastic.
This is why I will never be an engineer.
*One large glass of Ginger Ale and a whole slice of cake: Never let it be said I can’t have fun.
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Oh dear, I've not been updating here. However, today was the day of the transfer printing. I've been putting this off for ages because frankly it scared me: I was either going to be coming back this PM with a smile and several nice shiny transfers, or I was about to break the office printer. Being the pessimist's pessimist I naturally expect the latter.
Thanks to some help from the manager, the printer did as it was told and we've got transfers: We've got transfers, and I haven't destroyed the printer...
Happy dance,
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Manager now thinks I'm weird.
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Great news about the transfers.
Tony
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Happy Dance?
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Great news about the transfers.
Tony
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Happy Dance?
You don't have a Happy Dance for successful transfer production? Sirrah, you haven't lived.
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You don't have a Happy Dance for successful transfer production? Sirrah, you haven't lived.
I have a happy dance for getting the lid off a lot of paint without redecorating the room (I set my milestones at achievable levels).
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Secret to a happy life...
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Looks like I've been a bit remiss in my posting here as well...
The Wood wagon below now has uprights:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/wood_01_11.jpg?w=500&h=477)
And they are even upright (mostly)
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/wood_01_12.jpg?w=500&h=305)
Which was great, until I needed to paint them:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/wood_54-1.jpg?w=500)
But I got there eventually...
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/wood_57.jpg?w=500)
However, something is still missing, can't think what it is though...
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/wood_59.jpg?w=500)
Meanwhile, after a considerable amount of faffing about, the van is now in glorious technicolour. :
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/h04_31.jpg?w=500)
Admittedly the colour in question is mostly grey, but it’s colour; not just blank primer, and thus incredibly exciting.
I probably should get out more.
Actually, now I look at it the green is a bit too light so I’ll have to work on it, or possibly just hit it a bit harder than planned with weathering. The originals are generally rust free but they travel about a fair bit, and don’t seem to be cleaned any more than strictly necessary: these aren’t preserved relics.
This is very useful as it means I can hide the worst of my mistakes learning experiences under ‘weathering’ and no-one will be the wiser…
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The sliding panel van is really nice now! I like the grey/green combination.
Although it is H0 scale my weathering might encourage you to try some dirty experiments on yours too. Quick and easy! It's Vallejo BLACK SHADE and after drying a second layer of SEPIA SHADE on the panels and a final beige drybrushing at the painted ends:
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/39/2603-160719092849.jpeg)
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Honestly. I'm way behind in posting at the moment, mostly because I got distracted cycle touring.
The van is now somewhat weathered, and I'll try and dig up a picture of it. There's a few other bits and pieces too. Will have to get the camera out.
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The Railcar has been sat on a shelf making me feel guilty for a few more months, so I finally got myself into gear the final details, or if I’m honest, distractions to stop people noticing too many of my mistakes.
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/railcar_01_44.jpg?w=500)
First of these was the transfers I printed a while back after a considerable amount of dithering. This was a mixed success. I couldn’t get the colours on the transfers to match exactly so I had to paint as closely as I could to the numbers themselves, and unfortunately this shows.
The weathering is aiming for a “well used” appearance. This is appropriate as the railcar is supposed to have been built in the late nineteen seventies or early eighties, but long suffering readers will notice a pattern here, as I’ve found that weathering is rather useful for hiding my mistakes, and I have plenty to hide. Most of what you see is made using artists pastels, I keep trying different ways to apply a dark wash, and attempted one on the roof. As usual it didn’t work.
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/railcar_01_40.jpg?w=500)
After covering this minor disaster with black pastels I dry brushed the rest with light grey, a tiny bit of white and an even tinier bit of silver, then toned down the lot with more chalk pastel (black and brown, for those taking notes) then decided “what the heck?”, added black pastel to the side vents and dusted the lower body with light brown.
So much progress at once. I think I'll go for something a bit more relaxing now and work on the Pulp Alley Mono-wheel that's sat on the shelf...
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(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/h04_32.jpg?w=500)
I finished this van several weeks ago and then got distracted by job hunting/family/lots of cycleways and forgot about it. This tells you all you need to know about my organisational talent...
I should have posted it before the railcar project because this was the first transfer experiment. I think having the lettering on a block of colour with a contrasting ‘background’ worked rather better than the “hope the printer can produce the right shade of green” that I used on the railcar. I’ve filed this discovery under “we live and learn”
I’m filing that wonky roof end under the same category.
The next goal of this is two more vans of a different and slightly simpler design. These are in the almost legendary “Project backlog” queue.
Meanwhile, as @Michi pointed out, this van now needs some weathering. I’ll try and remember to take pictures when I finish it this time…
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Lovely 8)
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My goodness but it's been a while. Please excuse the thread resurrection: I've been busy moving house and getting a new job.
With the house move I had to make a new pull out workbench before I could do anything else:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/workbench_18.jpg)
Being a qualified cabinet maker has advantages, even if I don't work as one any more.
However I've also completed the railcar:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/railcar_01_65.jpg?w=500)
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/railcar_01_68.jpg?w=500)
And some more vans:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/panel_van_mk_ii_26-1.jpg?w=841)
And some wood wagons:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/ww_2_20-1.jpg)
And the first of what will be several Swap body units:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/container_lowmac_16.jpg?w=484)
There's a few other things too, including the van featured previously, but I don't have pictures to hand so you'll be spared those...
Monday is another New Job Day, so there may be more delay, but I'll try to post a bit more regularly now.
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They look great 8)
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Beautiful work!
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(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/lowmac_02_02.jpg?w=508)
New wagons in the pipeline. This is attempt 2.0 after the first ones went a bit banana shaped, (and were too short anyway).
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/lowmac_02_05.jpg?w=768)
I left the wagons on a shelf for a few days, and they showed no apparent inclination to bend in the middle.
One still managed to warp at the angle where the frame goes down from the end platforms. I seem to remember a similar problem on some of the wood wagons I built a few months ago, and solved it as I did then by cutting through most of the frame with a hacksaw, then gluing the join and leaving the resulting mess to set solid overnight, sitting on a piece of glass with a pile of books on top. I’ve never really taken a subtle approach to model making.
Another then decided to twist slightly end to end, I’ve managed to reduce this by cutting and re-gluing but there’s still a tiny difference which I now intend to solve by pretending it isn’t there.
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/lowmac_02_12.jpg)
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/lowmac_02_10.jpg)
I had a three week gap between work contracts so there will now be a brief hiatus while the financial department recovers sufficiently to order more brass, et c.
You never know, I may even paint some figures...
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Love your work on these 8)
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\cracking job, always enjoy seeing your updates.
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I've gone and forgotten this thread again, but I did manage to finish those wagons, although apparently have failed to photograph them in a wheeled state:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/lowmac_02_21.jpg?w=500)
The current project is for a modern (ish) shunting engine. I've been putting off the business of soldering the railings for ages, but finally got up the courage to try it:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/shunter_2.0_37.jpg?w=500)
As part of the avoidance of soldering, I made a control desk for the diesel, which wouldn't look out of place in a Pulp mad scientists' laboratory...
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/shunter_2.0_40.jpg?w=500)
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This is some lovely work! 8)
I especially love the WIP modern diesel shunting engine; it's reminiscent of my favourite DB diesel machine, the V100, athough it's probably modeled more after the 260?
And the fact you correctly labeled and classified that tankcontainer with diesel warms my heart... :D
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Brill 8)
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My word!
What are you using for those screen sections on the shunter?
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I also like the diesel shunter.
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Hi, and thanks for the kind comments.
@Daeothar: The shunter is "based on" (as in; from a distance, in a bad light, if you squint) the Vossloh G6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vossloh_G6). My excuse for anything that is different, is that it's a Narrow Gauge version so it looks different because... reasons.
@FramFramson; The screens are a fine mesh bought by the metre from an architects supplier in Germany: 28mm scale / 1:55 scale in model railway terms is close enough to the common architects 1:50 scale that a lot can be used from that source, which is handy as 1:55 is a very "minority" scale; I doubt a hundred people are building models in this scale.
Anyway, the shunter is now finished. Probably:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/shunter_2.0_56.jpg?w=750)
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/shunter_2.0_51-1.jpg?w=750)
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/shunter_2.0_53.jpg?w=500)
The bike is a model of my touring bike, seen here photobombing some "Prototype research" in Karlsruhe:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/2020_05_06_karlsruhe_01.jpg)
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Lots to love in this thread, brilliant work!
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Brilliant.
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Lovely work. :)
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Nice!
That engine next to your bike looks an awful lot like a Dutch 6400 series btw (with some subtle differences here and there; they certainly look like cousins)!
(https://www.folst.nl/de_locs/6400_3.jpg)
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That engine next to your bike looks an awful lot like a Dutch 6400 series btw (with some subtle differences here and there; they certainly look like cousins)!
Cousins indeed, not siblings. That is because both were made by MaK, the Dutch one being a diesel-electric (DE1002 derivate) and the privately owned being a G1204 diesel-hydraulic driven.
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Thanks for all the kind comments. A combination of work and cowardice and being distracted by Pulp Alley meant I had a rather long hiatus, but I'm now working on passenger trains:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/2023_07_23_dvt_01_09s.jpg)
This will hopefully eventually be a driving carriage for passenger trains, once I've figured out how I'm going to make the rather complex shapes. It's supposed to be loosely based on the German Railways class 628, (Wikipedia link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Class_628)) although I doubt there will be much evidence of this by the time I've finished...
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Looks very promising 8)
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That's some excellent plasticard work! I can see the inspiration; you should be pretty close once it's finished I reckon! 8)
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Thanks for the encouragement. One advantage of building a narrow gauge version is that I can just claim any mistakes are "because it had to be redesigned to fit the smaller gauge".
Completion is a bit slow because I keep getting distracted by Pulp Alley model making and playing solo games, but I'm currently traing to sand the roof to an acceptable shape...
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Your plasticard work is very impressive 8)
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More progress on the driving trailer:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/2023_07_23_dvt_01_18-1.jpg)
Unfortunately I can't find any modern figures that fit a train in the 28mm figure range so I had to use architectural models. At least they'll be hidden in the carriage.
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/2023_07_23_dvt_01_19s.jpg)
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Looking good; great progess 8)
And 1/50 architectural figures are fine for a lot of purposes. I've seen several instances of them being used as zombie hordes for example, or non-combatant NPC mobs.
Besides; when they're inside a vehicle and not side by side with more heroic miniatures (on bases), they should look absolutely fine :)
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The Driving trailer is slowly gaining a roof...
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/2023_07_23_dvt_01_20.jpg)
Because I know I can’t cut that accurately, I went for the tried and tested method of gluing lots of assorted offcuts of plastic sheet to make a solid slab which I could later sand to be flush with the sides. Or as near as makes no difference anyway.
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/2023_07_23_dvt_01_22.jpg)
This wasn’t perfect even after sanding, so I got out the filler to fill the holes and then some. I’m far from expert in this, as can be seen above, so my usual method is to apply great wodges of the stuff where I need it, and sand it off later. Accordingly I made a lumpy mess all over the roof and ignored the project for a day. And then put it off a bit longer.
Eventually I go on with it:
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/2023_07_23_dvt_01_26.jpg)
This removed at least half of the carefully applied filler, but it also made the roof a vaguely roof like shape, and left it at almost the right shape so I quit before doing irreparable damage. I can hide any slightly mismatched joins eith the colour change from sides to roof.
It has to be said, “finescale” is not a word that can be applied to my style of model making, and neither is “Subtle”, but it seems to work.
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Looks good to me :)
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... so I quit before doing irreparable damage.
Always the most important skill to learn, it does seem to have worked it's looking good.
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I really love this project, splendid scratchbuilding work!
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Yup; doing just fine there 8)
The roof looks pretty good, and the gap on the front can be filled up easily. It's really coming together!
Will you be doing another one for this one to pull? And are those actual LED's for headlights?
As it happens though I've been in one of these, or something very reminiscent to it, this summer when vacationing in the Black Forest... :)
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As it happens though I've been in one of these, or something very reminiscent to it, this summer when vacationing in the Black Forest... :)
Very clever build so far. The head is indeed resembling the standard gauge DB 628 series, while the body is clearly not and looks more like a LINT. All in all it is recognizable as something typical from rural Germany... :D
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Thanks for the encouragement...
Will you be doing another one for this one to pull? And are those actual LED's for headlights?
As it happens though I've been in one of these, or something very reminiscent to it, this summer when vacationing in the Black Forest... :)
This will be hauled by a railcar I built some time ago, which looks completely different; in fact one reason this is so German is that I needed something to balance the "Swiss" appearance of other stock.
They are LED's and one day I may even connect them...
As it happens though I've been in one of these, or something very reminiscent to it, this summer when vacationing in the Black Forest... :)
Where were you? You could have dropped by...
Very clever build so far. The head is indeed resembling the standard gauge DB 628 series, while the body is clearly not and looks more like a LINT. All in all it is recognizable as something typical from rural Germany... :D
Thanks. I'm trying to make it look lie a 628ish driving trainer which has been converted recently to make it barrier free, rather like some older trams in places like Freiburg or Dresden.
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Where were you? You could have dropped by...
We were in Bad Peterstal-Griesbach, about 10 to 15 clicks east of Offenburg... :)
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Not to far then. I'm about to catch a train to Offenburg...
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Then we probably were in the same type of train you're taking inspiration from :)
We came there by car, but because of the tourist cards we received from our landlady, public transport was free, so we went to Freiburg by train. Small local train like yours to Offenburg and an intercity from Offenburg to Freiburg.
A great experience, especially since my daughter really likes traveling by train. Too bad that we decided to return right during rush hour though. Had to stand most of the way back... ::)
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(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/2023_11_26_dvt_01_29.jpg)
This is the state of play on the driving trailer; it's now primed, but I need to add lots of pipes on the front end before I can paint it. The end result of the pipes will probably look a bit like the RHB's ABe 8/12 units (Link to image (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian_Railway_ABe_8/12#/media/File:ABe_812_L%C3%BCen.jpg)), which in contrast to their standard gauge equivalents, can't push all the service connections into a coupling.
Progress will continue when I've got materials together to make said pipes. In the meantime, I've been getting ideas again about more vehicle conversions for tabletop games...
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Looking great! But you missed a ] in the picture's link; easy fix though :)
The pipes/hoses will absolutely add more interest to the front, which is always nice!
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Like that... :D
(https://korschtal.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/2023_11_26_dvt_01_29.jpg)
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Looking great! But you missed a ] in the picture's link; easy fix though :)
The pipes/hoses will absolutely add more interest to the front, which is always nice!
Oh, poo. Now fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks @Michi for the image.