E94 Electrolok, Deutsches Krokodil, Herr Pirling, 1:38 scale [FERTIG]

Hallo Freunde:

Herr Pirling has very kindly made his beautiful model of the E94 electrolok available as a free download. The model is availaible to members of the Kartonmodell-Forum. The model has 15 sheets and a photo building guide is also available. I looked and did not find any build reports for this engine, and as I promised Wanni I would do one, here goes. If anyone is interested, I will email you a nice four page article (in english) about this engine. Here is a picture of this lovely brute.

Yes, I will start posting build pictures tonight. I have built the first truck (bogie) and am working on the second.

regards

Norm, I will send you a PM with the site. Have you been to the Halton County Radial railway? They have two Canadian freight electics there.

Bernhard, I am following your Pirling steamer with great interest.

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I am building the E94 in three sections, the two trucks (bogies) and the center cab. But first let me give you a few specifics. I printed the bogen on Epson premium presentation paper for inkjets. This is a 44lb. paper, and very nice to work with, scores neatly, and doesn't delaminate. This is my workspace (aka the coffee table) and tools. You don't need anything fancy

I have also recently switched to india ink pens for edge coloring and they work great. They are Faber-Castell Pitt pens. I cut out parts in three steps, a rough cut, to separate the parts, a close cut, just a few millimeters from the line, and then the final cutting. I do the first two steps with scissors and the last with knife, rule and scissors. The rule is cork backed, and I use it cork side up, to keep my fingers from slipping.

I also like to fabricate the parts before i get to far into assembly, just a habit. The work starts with the frame (rahmen) and the floors which are laminated. A trick for laminating big pieces to just put the glue across one end and hold the parts together aligned; when the glue is dry, just pull a layer back, put glue on the rest and let it close, keeping the alignment. The frame box was glued up, then the three formers (spanten) were glued in, keeping everything nice and level. Then the deck pieces were added.

Before I forget, let me mention that I doubled (verstarken) the outside side frames with scrap card. There are also 12 small c-shaped pieces that need to be glued to 1 mm card, and each wheel half was glued to .05 mm card. (but the halves are NOT glued together until later, as you shall see. After the wheels are cut out, I lightly sanded the rims. Finally, the pivot points need to be laminated to a 2 mm thickness, I did this in layers for easier cutting. Also here is a shot of work in progress.

It was a bit of a challenge to figure out the build sequence. This is the basic building sequence that I worked out:
1. build the frame.
2. glue the decks to the frame.
3. glue the nose piece and internal brace (color the top flaps green).
4. put in the framework for the top of the nose, then the top of the nose.
5. add axles.
6. add motors
7. add inner wheels.
8. add outer wheels.
9. apply tin foil to the wheel rims (don't forget the bits that show on top)
10. add wheel spacer rings.

Now shift to the outer frames:
11. add the springs and little rectangular pieces.
12. glue bearing housings together and glue to frame
13. add the little c-shaped pieces you laminated.
14. add the equalizers (the T-shaped pieces.
15. add the sand boxes (sandkasten).

Now glue the outer frames to the main frame. I just put glue on the wheel rings, and at the ends of the frame. Then you can add the air tanks, couplers, etc, or wait till later. I will do the brake rigging when both ends are done because it will be easier to sort out the pieces.

Some more pictures of the assembly process. You can also see how I shaped the buffers (puffers):

Thank you, Dieter. Here are some photos to wrap up the building of the 1st truck (bogie). Fit has been excellent. There will be a lull while i finish up the second truck.

Hallo freunde:

This is a survey of the completed truck.

Thanks Norm, will do. Did I give you Herr Pirling's email? His catalog is well worth ordering. I hope you do a thread on your superdetail version, good photos are available on the web. I will post an update tonight as the second truck is almost finished and I have started rough cutting for the cab unit.

regards

Hallo freunde

This is an update to show some of the work on the second truck. It should be complete by the end of the weekend. The first not so good shot shows all the pieces that make up the truck next to the completed truck. next are the parts to make the brake cylinders (bremsyl) with the insides colored so no white rim shows. Finally, shots of the inside frame and its bracing (spanten).

Work is proceeding on the second truck and also on the central cab. I have been figuring out which parts need to be doubled and have a mystery part, too. When I started the second truck, I expected it to be a breeze. Well, I forgot about Murphy. So I want to show some of the little disasters that can occur in even the best managed builds. Did I mention that spraying the sheets (bogen) with a good preservative is important?? :gaga: The last two pictures show how you can use a french curve to score tabs on a curve, and cutting tinfoil for the tire rims.

And here is a picture of my lovely wife, who came up with the idea for the wheel rims. Finally, here is the mystery part. There are two of them.

My wife is a sweetie, no mystery there if that is the transformer. then it explains the square gray pieces that I thought might be wall panels. Thanks, Wanni.

Hallo Adolf, yes, I see how it works now. Your brother has given us a wonderful gift with this engine. thank you.

This weekend I have been making parts for the center cab, and the second truck is languishing. So much for plans...

Hallo freunde,

I was away for a long weekend in sunny Ohio so the elok has has been neglected. I am working on the insulators, the steps and the brake rigging, lots of small parts to cut out. I am ready to add the outside frames to the second truck, and then I just need to add the detail parts that are already prepared. i found a use for the small white disks, to strengthen the frame spacers. You can also see some of the doubled parts.

Hallo alles, At long last, the second truck is finished. Now I need to take all the brake rigging and figure out where it goes. I also have cut out all of the parts for the center cab. Aint progress wonderful? Can anyone tell me how to intersperse the pictures with the text in the editor? I see other folk doing that but I haven't figured out how. The first three pictures show the completed trucks, then the brake rigging, and finally, the parts that make up the center cab's underframe (unter rahmen).

regards

Thanks. Herr Pirlings' design is well engineered and the fit is near perfect.

regards

This weekend was my lovely wife's birthday, so I have just worked on miscellaneous components, here and there. First up is the brake housing. Beware, this has different ends, something not apparent at first. Another thing I realized about the brake housing, too late, of course, is that despite the dotted line, you do not need to scribe a fold. the top is flat, flat, flat :gaga:. Next. the transformers. these also have different ends. Did I notice? :gaga: So I ended up printing another sheet and closing up both ends.

Pray tell, another mystery part? My translator has failed me, so any help will be appreciated.

Or, still no discipline. But I did get the brakes done. Here are some pics. When you know where they go, it's a straightforward job...and a pic of the pieces that will make up the cab steps. So i continue to work here and there, coloring edges, building steps, pantograph parts (more on that if I ever find my florist's wire :(), but I will start building the cab body. Soon. Honest.

Hallo freunde, more work on components. I did start the frame. I did find the florist wire, and the clear plastic for the windows, so life is good. Pictures of the steps, pantograph cross-braces. You can see the chisel point I used to cut the holes in the insulator disks; I am disillusioned with my punches.

Hallo, here are some shots of the frame and you can see how the interior braces fit. All of the braces are doubled. The last shots show the floor pieces, which are doubled, and the sides. I still have to add the windows and interior panels to the sides.

Yu-san, it is kitchen aluminum foil ("tin foil"). Silver paper works too, but the foil is very metallic. You need to cut it slowly with a very sharp blade.

Hallo, I finally ran out of doodads to make, so it time for the main show...erecting the cab. I use a very thin plastic cut from page protectors. This way I don't have to peel back the paper, like Master Yu-san teaches. The plastic is stiff but flexes easily. I made templates, cut to 3mm bigger than the opening, and used those to cut the plastic. I have also laminated the roof and trimmed and touched up the edges.

Work on the cab continues. I threw in a picture of the 1 to 1 scale dampflok, CNR #5588, that I am helping to restore here in Windsor.

Erection continues.

Still in the erecting shop. I snuck in a shot of the wire parts.

These are the last shots from the erecting shop, as I head up north tomorrow to ride my favorite 1881-built, coal fired steamer, the RMS Segwun.

The only redeeming thing about coming home from vacation is finishing the elok. The final tally for this trip was one steam train (Portage & Lake of Bays Ry, a dinner cruise on the Segoon and a Georgian Bay tour on the Chippewa III. Next year, we will ride the seaplanes. I am at the point now where I am ready to glue the roof to the center cab. there will be procrastination while I figure out the best way to do this so it goes on straight and true. I am also finishing up the pantograph; so far they have been trouble free to make (knock on wood).

More pics. Anyone have any good ideas about how to glue the roof on? Please comment in German if you like, I can translate it. thanks

Hallo fruende, before they flee my mind, I would like to mention some lessons learned from the center cab work:
1. Trim and very carefully test fit all the pieces that go around the windows on the interior, you can see that I was not quite careful enough.
2. Color the inside edges of the end bulkheads green, inside of the green color already there. When I test fit, it looked ok. However, there is a slight white line showing after glueing. :gaga:
3. Color the insides of the red and brown pantagraph pieces. When you glue the wire in, the paper may not close completely around it. :gaga: :gaga:
4. The footboards in the fuhrerhaus are a tight fit, so don't use glue, just drop them in. I am glad you cannot see how one of mine came out. :gaga: :oops:

Yes, Yu-san. The central body of the center unit is wider then the end cabs. there is a green stripe to accomaodate this, but it is not wide enough just by a hair. I will post a picture later that will show this more clearly than I can describe.