What happened at your workbench today?

I have been pondering over how to make a cradle for my trams for a wee while now, and then when not thinking about the cradle a ding moment, the gutter for the garden hut I have spare, I wonder if a tram would sit down side up in the channel, 3 pieces of scrap window blinds with an arc cut in to them and stuck on with PVA, hey voila I have a cradle.

The simplest things can bring us joy and make us happy.
 

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DafyddElvy said:
I have been pondering over how to make a cradle for my trams for a wee while now, and then when not thinking about the cradle a ding moment, the gutter for the garden hut I have spare, I wonder if a tram would sit down side up in the channel, 3 pieces of scrap window blinds with an arc cut in to them and stuck on with PVA, hey voila I have a cradle.

The simplest things can bring us joy and make us happy.
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Brilliant, have been thinking of a cradle for my G1 and G0 stuff for a while. Have a solution now but I will use a bit of squared guttering that I have. For those of you that do not have some convenient spare guttering and wish to copy this superb idea, a bit of Skip watching is in order.
 
dunnyrail said:
Brilliant, have been thinking of a cradle for my G1 and G0 stuff for a while. Have a solution now but I will use a bit of squared guttering that I have. For those of you that do not have some convenient spare guttering and wish to copy this superb idea, a bit of Skip watching is in order.
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I suspect the best part for me was yet another use for the wood window blinds my wife said I should have skipped a few years ago.
 
Everything comes in handy one day. The eternal circle, in the skip, taken out for re-purposing. A large proportion of my line is made from rescued materials. Of course had you followed your wife’s advice and put them in a skip Jon might have found them and made a cradle for his stuff.
 
A couple of gratuitous pic of the latest coaching creation for the Claptowte Railway, the First/Third Auto-trailer No17, to partner the all Third Auto-trailer No16. Although I finished the construction over a week ago, I cannot start the painting until the family have left to return to the US, time with them is too precious. The First Class compartment is the one with the tables added. I have decided that there will be one more coaching project after this and to that end I have made a start acquiring the necessary parts. That will free up the 4-wheel Director's Coach to be independently attached to any rake on an ad hoc basis, as originally attended, or even run on its own.

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David
 
For quite a while my irke has been tested when trying to add couplers to scratch built or modified locomotives and rolling stock. The general way has been to get a wagon from the nearest shed and use that. However this sometimes involves trips out in the rain or sometimes a dark evenings to an unlit shed. Tedious. Not sure how or when the lightbulb moment came, but come it did. Just mount an LGB type coupling on the piece of wood at one end. So that is what I have done today. I have not used an expensive LGB coupling but a surplus one of another make that was lying around in a bag. So long as the top of the hook on the vehicle that was used as a jig to place matches the bottom of the coupling it all will be fine.

Now ready for when I next need to do that height check.
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Finally completed what was supposed to be a "light" rework of a Bachmann stockcar I had acquired for cheap:

From this:

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To this:
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I'm going to try and write up a build log at some point. I got tons O' pictures of modifications and the stuff I 3D Printed.
 
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Djjerme said:
Finally completed what was supposed to be a "light" rework of a Bachmann stockcar I had acquired for cheap:

From this:

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To this:
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I'm going to try and write up a build log at some point. I got tons O' pictures of modifications and the stuff I 3D Printed.
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The transformation is so complete that it is difficult to believe that the donor was a cheep Bachman job.
 
A rare despatch from the front line from me, but today's rain means indoor jobs. Typical of my current approach, I am working on both an MNR M wagon scratch-build and (in the background) an IMR H wagon kit...20220605_105653.jpg
 
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I think most of you know this model/brand,(croc/swiss made) i hope it has the solution for my AA20
I will never be good in making photo's

With best regards Igor
 
As I’m only just getting back into G gauge I’m taking things slow.

However the garish and probably incorrect DR yellow open wagon has cried out for some attention.

First a spray with Halfords white primer, the hand painted in a dark rust colour.

Happy so far with it but may try Halfords Red Oxide for another wagon I have in a garish colour and see what the result is.
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Mark
 
Windym87 said:
As I’m only just getting back into G gauge I’m taking things slow.

However the garish and probably incorrect DR yellow open wagon has cried out for some attention.

First a spray with Halfords white primer, the hand painted in a dark rust colour.

Happy so far with it but may try Halfords Red Oxide for another wagon I have in a garish colour and see what the result is.
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The red oxide works much better than you may think and covers nicely being an undercoat. I sprayed mine thus then laboriously applied masking tape to the wood bits (after a week of drying) to spray the metal work black halfords again Matt. Well worth the effort.
 
One of my Signals inherited from the Ruschbahn finally gave in the other day. Andy had built the circular bits using plastic lids from old Film Cassette cans. Fortunately some years back I got batch of brass circles in a box of this n that. Some of my other signals have already been replaced and again by a stroke of good luck I had pre drilled the centre of the circles and sprayed them up ready for the day when I did the previous 2 trashed ones. Below you can see how the plastic has got weak to the touch.
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And after being replaced, the one to the left in the distance may be due soon and another couple elsewhere are still hanging on. This is likely as they are in shade most of the time so the plastic will not have degraded so much.
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That Station Platform is long se prettying up work.
 
Last couple of days been doing a tidy up of the area above, will never be perfection scenic wise but better now than the above picture. I need to do a little with the area round the building but need to leave area clear to left as that is used as a step to get into the area behind for gardening.
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playmofire said:
Well, this didn't happen today and didn't happen at my workbench, but I'll record it here anyway.

The items below arrived on 30th May from Matt (3 minutes of fame) as part of my experiments on a new roof for my fleet of LGB Toy Train box cars.


I haven't had time yet to do anything other than think and these thoughts and what happens will be recorded in due course here.
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That's a job you need to apply yourself to.

David
 
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