Hello, my name is Peter, I'm from Poland and few days ago I decided to register here, although I was reading this forum for a quite long time.
After a hard work in rebuilding firebox I thought, it would be nice to have relation on foreign forum.
Right now I'm building Pt47 - I started in late November along with finishing Px29. The model came with laser-cut wheels and screws.
Pt47 is my second model in 1:25 and 4th railway model. I did two in 1:87, but I have no bravery to show them in public
Because of starting new topic here, and having many pictures, this first post will be with short description of parts. Later on I'm sure I will be able to give a decent commentary about all pictures.
Firstly I built framework for tender (You can see Px29 in comparision):
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Then I started to cut out the frame, which was quite hard work to do, mainly because of thickness of cardboard - 1,5 mm.
Then endless gluing of screws:
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I also built boiler:
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And the tender:
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Next thing was construction of trailing truck and wheels:
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Here are leaf springs of driving wheels:
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I also tried to paint boiler with black spray - the effect is nice, after joining with firebox I will paint it one more time:
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Bumpers:
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Main parts of tender's bogies are almost finished, after placing leaf springs they'll be polished and painted:
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The two last pictures show plate with railway track (it will be very helpful to correct positioning of all the wheels) and my experiment with dirtying of leading bogie:
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My buliding may seem chaotic, but I like to think "Hm, today I'd fancy to do leading bogie." I keep track of every part in case there's particular sequence in fixing elements. That means I can work on cylinders one day, and on something different the other day, so it makes the work nicer to me.
Any comments or questions are welcomed.
Greetings,
PJ