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Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:28 am
by Robpulham
Re: Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 12:54 pm
by Jim de Griz
Very very pretty!
How did you get the rivet detail so precise and yet so pronounced?
Jim se Griz
Re: Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 1:16 pm
by 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.
Re: Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:40 am
by rob
Absolutely beautiful job!....along with the GWR Star my favourite outside-LNER loco!
Re: Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:15 pm
by 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
Re: Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 7:35 pm
by notascoobie
Great work there Rob, even if it is for the other side!
See you at Kettering?
Cheers, V
Re: Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:25 am
by 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.
Re: Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:23 pm
by Hatfield Shed
Robpulham wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:28 am
...Not LNER, I know but ...
...no greater confirmation that Gresley Was Right.
Lovely model too.
Re: Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:53 pm
by Horsetan
The return crank seems to be pointing the wrong way.
Re: Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:32 am
by Atlantic 3279
Re: Not LNER I know but this is what has kept me from contributing much to the forum for the last two years
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:14 pm
by Robpulham
Horsetan wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:53 pm
The return crank seems to be pointing the wrong way.
Indeed it was, now corrected.
