Mossys 3D Models

First of the 2 NER brake Vans, the mystery that is the V2. A long shaggy dog story but of interest if you like Victorian wagons:

 

Pipework from the sand boxes in the verandas.

Brake guards there are 6 each is a square U shape affair around each of the pairs of break shoes.

The 3 vertical things who knows, and sadly the artist is I believe dead so we cant ask him.

 

Andy

Bear in mind how little is known about the V2's due to a dearth of either documentation or photographic evidence a lot of the detail is conjectural but is shown on both the detailed drawings for this brake van. The V3 drawings (again the same 2 authors) also show sand boxes on both verandas.

 

Very true Walking. Given the mineral vans were dragging heavy coal trains up hill and down dale in the Durham coalfields a bit of sanding would always come
in handy. The Cleveland ironstone field wasn't as hilly but again sanding would be very helpful.

Mossy

 

I finally got the other Victorian NER brake van done. I know it will appeal to Rob, he likes brake vans, he likes outside framing and he likes quirky stuff so this it a full house.



Since Andy is always showering praise on Pauls and my prints, this is the results of the test print:



4 hours of printing before I noticed the break, grrrrrr. All of which reminds me of the early 70's when women started walking around without a bra - an obvious case of lacking support, but it did provide some visual stimulation/education to school boys.

 

Rob

Never heard the Garden Gate phrase before but it fits brilliantly. My best tale like that is from the long hot summer of 1976 I was doing my finals in Sheffield during that heat wave year, but also as an addicted rock climber almost every Peak District crag was closed due to fire risk. In the end we figured out the only open crag Millstone Quarry was in the shade till about 1 o clock after which it was just too hot, but down below was as open air swimming pool in Hathersage.

The plan; up very early (yes students up at 7am) bus to Millstone Quarry, then when it was to hot down to the pool to cool off, it worked brilliantly, the added bonus being lots of topless ladies strutting about, very pleasant. Just before my last exam revision was a trip to Millstone and the pool. Not long after we had got to the pool 5 lady students arrived and stripped off, when they turned around, it became obvious all 5 were the girls from my Geology course. I had spent nearly 3 years "wondering" now it was pretty much all exposed, except the garden gate was closed. Oh to be young again.

Mossy

 

Andy

A not uncommon first result, I just don't often admit to it, second go usually cures any problems. I have had a really good look around this failure and I am pretty certain of the cause. Solutions, well a quick bodge isn't going to fix it and sadly the correct way looks to me to need an almost total rebuild of how the floor and chassis are joined. Instead of crashing in (my usual route to a fix) this one will need thinking about. But one good thing that has cropped up, this one was drawn before I perfected 3d printed buffer housings and a sprung buffer doesn't fit. That will be fixed before the mk 2 version is printed.

 

Oh so true and on the converse side they may well be 'male' students trying it on.

 

For the last few weeks a pair of S1's have been sat at the back of the table with a number of components stashed in the hoppers, suffering from an 'I'll just finish those off tomorrow', well it's no longer 'tomorrow' all done, buffers and couplings to be fitted after the paint job. I quite like the complex mix of angles: