I'm glad you did. I've not had chance to give it a go myself but
I'm enjoying seeing others attempts,
Mark
On 14/05/2020 19:57, Steve Holland via
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Sorry, did not intend to send this to the entire group. Blame it
on the stress of working with small fiddly card parts.
Regards
Steve
John,
After (a lot of) swearing and cursing I
have finally managed to complete a card Rheidol loco.
It does look a poor battered little thing!
I thought that I would be clever and
“borrow” a sheet of card that my wife uses to make
greetings cards. I think that it may be a little thick
for this model. The card works fine for greetings
cards but did not like been shaped for small parts and
the tabs had a habit of de-laminating where they hold
the various bits of the model together. I did try
printing another sheet on to paper so that I could
have double sided vacuum pipes and tank filler vents
and tank filler handles, and it has sort of worked. I
can’t help the thought that the steam dome looks a
little like a milk can!
I also “borrowed” my wife’s set of
Promarkers to touch in the edges and they have done a
good job of covering the white card on the score
lines.
The much larger loco is a 1:24 card
mock-up of one of the Kimberley Diamond Mine Bagnalls.
Its hard to believe that they are 18 inch gauge. It
got put together a few years ago in a period of
boredom over the Christmas break, enlarged from the
drawing in the Mark Smithers book on 18 inch gauge
railways. That card mock-up started me on modelling in
1:24 scale and some of the models have subsequently
appeared in the Review. It really is about time that I
got around to converting the card mock-up in to
something “proper”.
As for would I build another card Rheidol
loco, the answer is NO. It was far too small and
fiddly for me, and card does not file very well - it
goes all fuzzy! You cannot solder it together
either……...
Can you let me know if you have a problem
detaching the photos from this please. I have an iMac
and sent some photos as an attachment to someone with
a Windows machine. He could not disentangle them from
the text so they ended up being transferred on a
memory stick.
Regards
Steve
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I've added a page on the entries we
have received so far:?
We would welcome photos from anyone else who has
managed to complete one.
John
