It took about three night's work to get them all done.
Each element is made up of 5 pieces of styrene which all have to be cut to the correct length, glued together in a very precise manner, and shaped with a file and emery paper.
Each carriage requires 6 elements - that's 30 pieces of styrene. And so for all three carriages I had 90 bits of small plastic to deal with in total.
So I'm very glad that's done.
The next job is much more enticing, not least because it requires a pint of beer to be consumed first....
Just wondering why have you not created a resin cast for the connections?
ReplyDeleteBecause, Keith, the only way to get the step effect on each side and the hole down the middle would be to make a 2 part mould - and I'm not at that level of casting sophistication yet.
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