 |
| Moderated by: . |
Page:   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...   |
|
Broadoak
Registered
|
Having a few wagons and odd bits of motive power I thought I would do a bit more work on the structures. I decided to paint both the main workshop and the small engine shed a grey asbestos cement colour, as I thought it unlikely that a farm would go to the trouble of painting them. Looking at asbestos buildings locally showed they had a sort of orange coloured lichen growing on some of them, easily replicated with a blob of paint.
The walls were lined with balsa and some shelves put up. An Italeri kit provided a bench and many of the tools in the workshop. There are lubrication charts on the walls, these are reduced copies of the real thing. Both tractors in these pictures are actually diesels on trial and make the date the early 1960’s. The earlier TVO powered tractors I have are rather delicate white metal kits. I usually have an example of both old and new at exhibitions.
The two mechanics are Tamiya military figures that have had hats added to them then painted to look as if they are wearing overalls. Most working men in the 1950’s wore hats.
The black tank next to the workshop is for the storage of TVO as most tractors during the early fifties started on petrol and when the engine was warm changed over to TVO. It is made from odds and ends in the spares box.
____________________
Peter M
|
|
|
Broadoak
Registered
|
The coal stage in the foreground is a basic box shape made of Tamiya battle damaged walls cut into sections and glued together with MEK. The corrugated iron is actually the inner wrapper of cup holders we use at work. I found this material by accident one morning after an holder had been left out in the rain overnight and had delaminated. It was painted with several coats of grey with a little silver paint added, when dry it was touched up here and there with various rust colours. The corrugated iron sheets are held in place with wooden corner posts and rusty wire. There is some crushed real coal on the loading platform which is made of coffee stirrers. A few tools are found there, shovels, a coal hammer and a pick. The coal is carried on the footplate of the only steam locomotive the farm has in small sacks.
The wood be chopped is for starting the fire in the Porter loco, she helps out at harvest time when things get very busy.
____________________
Peter M
|
|
|
Herb Kephart
Moderator
|
Good lookin rust on the iron!
Herb 
____________________
Fix it again, Mr Gates--it still works!"
|
|
|
Broadoak
Registered
|
The foreman’s hut/office is a scale model of the huts we used to have at work. It is made of strips of balsa wood with a corrugated iron roof, the same material as the coal stage sides. The door is set in the open position to show the interior detail. There is a small stool and a bench with paperwork, a mug, a clipboard hanging up, and some bread and cheese.
The foreman figure is a modified Tamiya German soldier. He has obviously cycled to work on the day the photo was taken.
____________________
Peter M
|
|
|
pilotfriend
Registered
| Joined: | Fri Oct 2nd, 2009 |
| Location: | Iraq |
| Posts: | 165 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Peter,
Your trucks are absolutely wonderful!
JdF
|
|
|
Herb Kephart
Moderator
|
Great job on the tiny details that hold interest!
Herb
____________________
Fix it again, Mr Gates--it still works!"
|
|
|
Broadoak
Registered
|
The farm estate that Two Sister’s Farm is very loosely based on had some twenty odd miles of main line and ten miles of sidings all of it two feet gauge. It had a connection with the GER and a facility for loading the crops (mainly potatoes) into lorries as well.
In reality they had an assortment of Simplex locos and ex First World War rolling stock.
I felt the need to build something that could be used to haul these main line trains to the railhead or road interchange. As with the rail trucks I wanted something a little different.
That is how the yellow beast came about. It is totally freelance and is supposed to have a Gardner four cylinder diesel engine which drives a small generator which in turn powers the rear bogie which has two traction motors. The front bogie is un-powered and is purely for load carrying and braking. All this is fiction of course.
The device is seen here with a side tipper used to transport lime out to the fields to
improve the quality of the soil.
The model runs on an Athearn switcher chassis, this time with the rear drive shaft disconnected to give a bit more room in the cab area. The body has bits of its original donor loco, a Baldwin S12 with the cab removed and doors and handles on the bonnet sides added. The cab like the tractors of that time is open to the elements. It has a KD coupler at one end and a link and pin at the other. The driver is a converted army figure with his tin helmet carved and filed to look like his hair.
The beast is seen here with a wooden side tipper on its way to the pig sties to collect the material from mucking out. A single track ran through the centre of the sties to facilitate this.
____________________
Peter M
|
|
|
Current time is 06:06 pm | Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... |
|
|
|
