K Wagon : A hand to hand combat description of building a K Wagon from Waratah Model Railway Company. I hope to highlight those parts of the instructions that to the uninitiated cause simple confusion and panic.
There's no point in having one service vehicle when you can ahave a collection. I thought I'd build the vehicles together and here they are at a stage of 'mostly' complete. These little vehicles were a bit of battle to build, despite the few components it was difficult to getting joins square. There was quite a bit of filing and gentle bending. Before starting I polished up the surfaces with a fibreglass brush. Using the fibreglass brush requires a bit of care as the dust can be considered as dangerous. I used disposable rubber gloves, the thin type the fit closely to the hand. I performed the brush polisihing on a surface that could be cleaned up easily - old newspaper and in fact I also used a breathing mask and safety gogles, I also made sure I throughly washed my hands after finishing and cleaning up. Bodacious Bantam s The Karrier Bantam was I'm led to believe a ubiquitous council vehicle in the UK. I'm not sure of th...
The first post - definitely not the last. So after the October 2012 Aus 7mm Forum - the Big Day In (BDI) and two years after I setup this website, I've become inspired to make this happen. On eof the talks from the Aus 7mm Forum was a guy modelling British 'O' Gauge. He was doing this on a shoe-string budget, buying low priced items on E-Bay, concentrating on failed build items and then re-building. He was keen to get started and had projects and various stages of build. One comment made was 'Just get started'. I've been prevatgating about this website for two years, not quite starting - waiting for the oppoertunity to discribe a build from start to finish and never getting anywhere. Over in the Forums I'll be posting up a build sequence of a small HO scale kit and probably some minor items for 7mm. I've been concentrating on developing a few skills before going at a 7mm kit - so i don't end up selling out a failed build on EBay. ...
In the beginning - Out of the Box I opened the box to find a kit of very sparse parts. A white metal floor, seats, wheels, bumpers, and then a one piece resin body. The body came with a lot of flash and I could see this would require a lot of very careful filing. See the picture here . And after the cutting and filling and sanding of the flash I had this and after some filling, sanding and priming I had this
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