Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years

[Robpulham]

For most of the last couple of years my modelling time has been taken up with building this so I haven't had much to contribute. Hopefully going forward that should change.

Not LNER, I know but still very pretty to look at.

[Jim de Griz]

Very very pretty!

How did you get the rivet detail so precise and yet so pronounced?

Jim se Griz

[Robpulham]

Hi Jim,

Some of them are half etched so I can't take credit for those but for the ones that I have pressed out. I set them after using a rivet press (Double Leakey) to form the rivet.

Initially I used jewelers stone setting tools which I fitted to handles for ease of use.



Then more recently I made these from steel recovered from toner cartridges to make the job easier.





After pressing out the rivets you place the sheet on a hard flat surface, place the tool over the formed rivet and give it a small tap with a hammer. This sets the metal around the rivet back into shape which can get distorted by the stretching of the metal when forming the rivet.

[rob]

Absolutely beautiful job!....along with the GWR Star my favourite outside-LNER loco!

[Jim de Griz]

That's a neat technique and I love the custom made tools you've made

Thank you for explaining it.

Jim de Griz

[notascoobie]

Great work there Rob, even if it is for the other side!

See you at Kettering?

Cheers, V

[Atlantic 3279]

Excellent work. I tried to say so last night, adding further comment too, but by the time I'd typed up my remarks the site became inaccessible and my attempt to upload them simply sent them to oblivion.

In a nutshell, I'm happy to look at any good, hand made models of British locos in pre-1940 liveries, GWR excepted of course, happier still if they are colourful. I'm not remotely interested in tediously repetitive, clone-like representations of BR 50s/60s, or the low-brow colour schemes and electronic gimmicks of "modern image" modelling.

[Hatfield Shed]

...Not LNER, I know but ...

...no greater confirmation that Gresley Was Right.
Lovely model too.

[Horsetan]

The return crank seems to be pointing the wrong way.

[Atlantic 3279]

[Robpulham]

The return crank seems to be pointing the wrong way.

Indeed it was, now corrected.