Horse box builds

Cheers chaps


Today’s efforts….
First job was to remove the three “cushion” pads at the feed trough end as looking at some more photos it appears that it was in fact one long “cushion”
The basic dividing shutters / doors were cut from thick plasticard and the rear wall was made with the hinges for the doors and the protection pads added. I’ve tried to make these all removable to as to hopefully make the painting of the model easier…..

Picture show that with the doors wide open you can see detailing on the opposite doors so I’ve tried to replicate this with strips of plasticard and balsa for the “cushions” I’ve also added the inner door detailing on the open doors

Grooms door has had the timber panel added, both sides and also the leather window straps, which appears in the photo

and another test fit of all the sub assembly parts. The main partitions will be scribed and detailed next session.

 

Cheers Ralph, Bob, Rob and Paul.

more detailing done today on the devising shutters. I’m pleased with the large doors but I’m going to re build the small shutters as to my eye they look to thick and clumsy…..

 

I’ve rebuilt the small shutters with thinner plasticard which I think look better.

Next job is to look at the inner drop down door chains and levers…

 

The door levers and chains next, which I think may be sprung to aid the lowering and lifting of the main door, as the photos I have show the chain under tension in different positions. I’ve made them out of a strip of etch, hinged on the two sub assemblies and I’m thinking of adding some fine elastic inside the sub assemblies to tension the lever which will hopefully tension the chain…..we’ll see if that plan works later…
I’ve also added two small fixing points on the door, for the chain to be fitted on final assembly.

I’ve given these parts a coat of etching primer as well to see how all the different materials might look like when painted…..the balsa wood “cushions” will need some fine tuning….

….and as I’ve just cleaned the model yet again, might as well put a coat of etching primer on that as well…..

 

WEP model now has a similar interior scratch built, thanks to Rob for a photo of the interior of an LNER version, ive mixed it up and used rule 1 to come up with my interpretation of what it might have looked like in this older version. Comments please if you think there’s something that needs adding / changing.

so here’s where they are at the moment in the build….all interior detailing is loose ready for painting.

 

it’s strange as I’ve seen cattle wagons modelled with cattle inside and years back I did a airfix cattle wagon with the doors glued open (no interior detailing and over scale thick doors ) but never a horse box, presumably because the Horsebox wagons are more closed in.

 

Boat ordered, arriving in December, so loads of time at the moment John.