Mossys 3D Models

Life moves on, I now have 4 sections of S4 hopper, 2 chassis and 2 body . The bodies are complete except for the hopper doors and monkey hangers, the doors will be done next, but the handrail knobs need for the monkey hangers haven't arrived yet.

The upper section of the end brakes looks like this:



Next up the S1 hopper my original design didn't include fully detailed hopper doors etc, I'm still not sure if they need adding, I also have 2 spare old style chassis - so perhaps I should build 2 or 3 S1's?

 

A miniature Shildon assembly line or two by two a Railway Ark?



There's also a third S4 boxed up for Rob, but that didn't photo very well.

 

Hot off the press my first completed S4 Hopper. Buffers and Couplings to be added after painting.



Having the chassis and body separate makes brake gear easy, but makes unifying the 2 bodies a real ^%$&&**(, but over all abetter approach.

 

Strangely after all the &^%%^& with No 1, the body-chassis union of no 2 was dead easy - isn't life odd. The weather in Leeds has had all 4 season in 15 minutes, but a quick flash of rays and they look better in the sunshine.



Because they look so good, I have decided to upgrade the S1 hopper to have proper hopper doors, latches and monkey tails, so more of them later or tomorrow.

 

Thanks Rob, I think they have come out the best I have ever done, but, I haven't changed anything, same resin, same print parameters, same design philosophy so why!
Earlier today I redrew the S1 hopper with working hopper doors etc. The prints are being washed now, lets hope for as good a result.

 

Slow but steady progress on the S1 hoppers. Every thing done but the end brake levers assemblies and fitting the very vulnerable foot steps to the chassis'. Test build an final build alongside each other. A couple of minor bits that are different but I will be keeping both.



And for fun an 1860's designed S1 alongside the somewhat bigger 1908 designed S4.

 

Since I am printing off realistic S&D / Central Division Ironstone wagons, I thought this would be an appropriate brake van, sometimes called the Shildon van other times the Bouch Van, introduced in the 1860 and photographic evidence shows one still in use in 1900, it is a classic S&D design. I printed off all the parts 2-3 years ago but then lost faith in what I had done and abandoned the project - it's now back on the list.



Update
Digging through some boxes of old prints, I found almost gold dust I have kept prints of pretty much all the components (two sets of everything) except the bodies, why? Each body is a 4 hour print run, I have just fired one off and if it's successful a second will be run off afterwards.

 

I have spent most of today figuring out what bits of gold dust I have and what needs reprinting, there is close to a full set of brake gear and miscellaneous other bits including 2 roofs, but no body/chassis. On recent builds I have been printing the body and chassis as separate bodies, which has helped building the end brakes of the hoppers, just for the fun of it I have done the same with the Shildon van, but then also printed them as a combined body so I have potential to build 2 of these chunky vans.

The most interesting part of the van is it's strange brake gear operated by what could best be described as coupling rods where each rod actuates one outside and one inside brake block, the 2 rods working in opposition to each other with a central mechanism which drives everything.



There are similar brake arrangements on a number of NER locos, Classes G and M have this arrangement and there may well be others. There are 8 pivots to this arrangement, but the question is did they extend across the van linking up to the opposite sides brake gear as do the loco brakes. Sadly the diagrams I have do not show if this is correct or not. Anyone got any good ideas?

 

Rob,

Even in the wilds of Wensleydale you should be able to hear a very loud snap emanating from Leeds. Our best hope and I don't think even he will come through with an answer is Tom Burnham. Tom any ideas?

 

After a bit of faffing about plus family duties I have finally the bodywork for the Shildon van, well a body/chassis combined and body- chassis separate, which was my good idea.
Looking at the separate chassis I can't think that it give any advantages in chassis building over the combined print, equally joining the two lining up 4 walls into 4 slots while making sure it all square wont be a piece of .... Conclusion: stick with the combine body and see how the build goes, generally a stupid idea that cost over 6 hours wasted printing time.

 

First Steps.

Sat on its wheels (but not glued in), roof again just placed. So what have I been doing - well the body requires 14 handrails, the roof has 6, more gold dust 12 out of the 14 were in a zip lock bag, the 6 on the roof were in place. Reaming out the location holes and fitting the hand rails has taken 2 1/2 hours, at least I didn't have to re-cut all 14. Seeing it stood up makes me realise what a solid if slightly crude look it has.



Tomorrow battle will commence with that odd brake gear.

 

A beautiful early morning in Leeds I couldn't resist playing with brakes. They actually went together very easily except clumsy Mossy broke the central Mech, lucky there was a spare in the gold dust pile so I fitted that and oh %^&*% wrong size and glued in so irreversible, nowt to be done so I carried on and finished things off.



The two short links should be horizontal, grrrrrrr, but with a full set of brake gear installed it looks like this:





I might well keep it as there wouldn't be many who will get to see the cock-up, but I know it will nag so there may well be a reprint coming along. As for underneath it pretty chaotic, I still need to decide if all these cross members should be there or simply cut away.

 

Rob,

You converted me to a details freak! No there nothing being impeded, but if I decide to reprint there are a couple of other improvements I would make as well, but they relate to the buildability rather than details.