Fn3 (1:20.3) Combine

[Rhinochugger]

For the roof, what about planking it and then covering with material.
Several ideas out there from calico (whatever that might be some sort of fine linen...) to tissue paper.
I been wondering if the stuff you cover model aircraft in would do, can never remember the name.
Making it cellestory could be interesting.

Someone's been reading my mind

It's going to be a duckbill end in time nphone:

There's still a few bits that I've got to get my head round :thinking::thinking::thinking:

 

[Richie]

Very nice really taking shape now Ian

 

[mike]

thats looking rather smart ,that is

 

[Rhinochugger]

Thanks guys, but save the compliments until it's finished.

This is the farethest I have ever got with a virtually entirely scratch built model of any sort in any scale. (Ignoring the underframe and bogies)

However, I have had a brilliant idea. These vehicles were referred to by the Carson & Colorado and the SP as 'cabooses' due to their spartan interior.

I intend to super detail the interior, so how do you super detail 'spartan' - obvious innit

No detailing at all

 

[dudley]

Very nice , looking brill, nice lines and very clean modelling , keep the pictures coming.

 

[beavercreek]

I have just got hold of a used Accucraft 1:20.3 D&RGW combine for a very nice price but I must say that the real wood siding that you have used is making your model look even better!
The interior of the combine only has the seats, a pot belly stove and also a stove in the baggage compartment if it was for a 'Railway Express Agency". If it wasn't a railway agency baggage compartment, then there was nothing at all in there!

 

[Rhinochugger]

Smooth as a baby's bum

Tissue and dope to give it a good protective layer. Peter Bunce advises me that some of the Carter Bros coach roofs were covered with metal, to protect them from hot ashes with locos at full blast, but if the ten-wheeler is an oil burner, that may not have been necessary, and so the tissues will be a good likeness of the canvass type roof covering

 

[Rhinochugger]

One step forward and two steps backwards

The headstocks fitted and cut outs formed for the steps

The tissue and dope roof not so good - I shall have discussions with my aero colleague at work about disaster recovery plans :thumbdown:

 

[CoggesRailway]

Just caught up with this thread, that is really good work!! Love it. I used to build gliders as a boy - dope and tissue paper can be a bit of a nightmare!

 

[Don Gilham]

That looks really good, [strike]Mike[/strike] Ian ! (Gawd what a duffer !)

 

[Rhinochugger]

I have discussed doping strategy with my Aeronutter colleague nphone:

We think that retrieval might be possible with Acetone

of which I have plenty

 

[mike]

big steps!

 

[Richie]

Fantastic Ian really looks the part

 

[Tim Brien]

The joins in roofing material were actually placed laterally across the car roof, not longitudinally. A suitable filler for your roof, well known to the 'aeronatuers' of old before that iron on cladding stuff, used dope plus talcum powder mixed to a light paste. After drying the surface is sanded to get a good surface.

 

[trammayo]

It looks good to me and the roof is not a disaster. I don't think you have done anything unprototypical. My only experience or observation on canvas covered rooves is confined to buses and trams. Generally one piece laid longitudinally ( but I suppose this depends - or depended - on the width of the cloth on the loom but, certainly, the woven length would not have been a problem).

It all comes down to luting or flashing - trapping the canvas behind beading and sealing with white lead paint (in the case of the UK at least). I think its a great job and look forward to seeing the finnished coach

 

[Rhinochugger]

The acetone works

All the roof is smoothed down with errant pieces of tissue in their rightful places.

next the steps, and the clerestory sides, which I'm not looking forward to :thumbdown:

 

[CoggesRailway]

Looking forward to the next pics....

 

[peterbunce]

Hi Ian,
Back from Wales - you ask about the interior - here is a photo of my interior looking upwards these are quite plain.

the partition was panelled as can be seen but equally it could be matchboard below the belt line and planked above.

When the C&C & SP made these into drovers vehicles I think they just had end to end seats between the end and division for the baggage area; they were by this time a bit 'knocked about, and elderly' so they were scruffy!

I think the seats were like tramcar seats with just timber slats, or as the USA of timber just a single plain plank. Here is a link to what I mean

http://www.ngtrains.com/Pages/MountBlueModel/553interiorphotopage.jpg < Link To http://www.ngtrains.com/P...3interiorphotopage.jpg

if you google 'drovers caboose' and go to images there are lots more ideas there. with or without the cupola on the roof for the guard (in UK terms)

 

[Rhinochugger]

Hi Peter, I like the inside detail of your coach, but I think it's a bridge too far for me.

I'm only taking little steps - 15mm to the foot

4 sets of the things :impatient::impatient::impatient:

 

[Rhinochugger]

The usual paint dramas, but we're getting there.

Handrails are pewter castings from S&D deisgned as 1:22.5 replacements for standard Bachmann carriages, but they work OK (without the central gates)