Posts by Joon Kwon

Oh!!!!

What a masterpiece!!

Hope I can come and see the bird in person.

Great job, Seo !!

Almost there

One more round.

Hi Gustav and Rene,

Thank you very much for comments / encouragements.

Today, I decided to rebuild the tender body.

I tried to get it right, but I see that the result got worser and worser due to mistakes that I made. (Some problems induced by imperfect frame, wrong/excessive primer application that caused the surface not as good as I wanted, the distortion of entire structure, etc.)

So, I decided to make another one based on learnings I got.

Frame work again.

Applied some improvements for the frame structure for better support of outer surface.

Alignments look good

Will proceed carefully this time

Found that the primer I’m using is rated as “quick dry”, which means it’s okay for sanding after a couple of hours.

So, did the first round of sanding, filling with paper cray and primer application.

Some imperfections are observed.

Will decide to do one more round of refining, or just move on to the next step … tomorrow.

Thanks a lot, Gustav,

Fully dried (another 24hrs).

And applied the first coat of primer.

Cracks and voids are seen very clearly.

When it is fully dried (one more day), will do fixing on those imperfections and sand again.

Oh, what a gorgeous locomotive !!

Congratulations and thanks a lot !!

Kudos !!!!

Thanks a lot, Henryk!!

I’ll try and make it done without surprise.

Dried full one day, did the first sanding, and on top, applied one thick coat of clear lacquer.

Es expected, there are cracks and gaps to fill.

Covering the top

Process remaining:

Sanding, filling, sanding, primer, sanding …

Wish me luck

For implementing the round shape of tender ends, I’m trying to use paper clay. At the moment, I cannot be sure it would be successful or not. Fully experimental trial.

Currently, the frame is filled with paper clay and being dried.

Hope it becomes happy ending.

Otherwise, I may need to rebuild the part again

😜

Made the skeleton of round shape ends at the front front and back side of tender.

For the round shape, made the skeleton more dense for the next step. 7.5 degree apart.

Front

Back

Fit check on the tender main body

After checking the tender frame, found that some alignments are not proper. So, decided to improve further and made the 2nd one.

Comparing with the first one

Wrapped the frame, making sure the alignments.

Bottom side

Top side

Side edges (reinforced using thicker paper)

Haha, Henryk,

Thanks !

Now, the tender frame.

Between meetings in the morning, made the frame of Tender.

Used the metal square blocks to get the alignments right. Fixed using thick CA glues

A bit of misalignment seen, but not that significant.

Total length around 90~100cm

Added more pipes.

First, the compressed air pipe.

Water pipe

And remaining portion of water pipe

Added magnets at the end as usual

Now,

Time to move on to Tender !

Sunday evening.

Made a small valve/pipe that connects the under pipe and the intermediate valve

Starting from small wire pieces

Made small through hole for better assembly

Prepare a small valve handle

Connect thinner wire and bend it

Painted and attached connecting components.

Hi Helmut and Dieter,

Thanks a lot for the comment.

I still think Precyzyjny‘s work is still the best and a legend of paper modeling.

His work inspired me a lot and I’m learning a lot.

Sunday afternoon.

A bit more progress today (small air valve)

Starting from small paper pieces.

Made the parts

And put it together

Painted and weathered

And mounted on the frame

Hi Rene,

Haha, thanks a lot.

Not much progress this week.

It has been busy week and I could work on the train today.

Made and attached the pipe running under the driver’s booth.

preparing wire pieces.

And put together

Add some short paper pipes at the ends

Painted

And mounted on the frame.

Installing pipes running under the deck.

Install the bracket first.

And installed the pipes

Great !

Very good way of preparing sails !

Would like to try when I ever make sailing ships again.

Kudos !

Hi Renee and Wolfgang,

Thanks a lot !!!

Now, chairs.

I tried to make a bit different chairs for my train, instead of the original plan. Chair made out of angled steel frames.

Prototype.

Problems: (1) too long (2) the box under the seat is too big.

Corrected the design and made it short with smaller box.

Adding the wood pieces for driver’s seating

Painted and weathered

Installed magnets to make those chairs detachable.

Completed

Seen though the back opening

Bottom guard, small shelf and a cup.

Wanted to hide the bottom of the boiler in pictures.

So made the guard at the floor and made a small shelf for a coffee break.

Now, a cup

And used UV glue to add the ‘water in the cup’ feel.

Put them together.

Added some parts that I guess the water level gauge .

Starting from putting together small wire pieces.

Painted,

Applied weathering and mounted on the boiler

Seen through the back opening

Haha, Hardie,

I’m sure you will make it soon.

Due to some conference call in the evening, a little progress made. Few pipes for gauges.

Please note that the pipe connection is purely based on my imagination.

Connected thin wires as pipes.

It seems a bit thinker than it supposed to be.

Applied black

Close ups

And applied weathering (same method)

Seen through the back opening.

Hi Matthias, Dirk and René,

Thanks a lot for the comments.

Added some small valves and the big lever.

Starting from paper pipes.

Changed the cutting mat.

Assemble

paint

And attached to the boiler

Seen from back opening

Few more steps to go for the driver’s booth

Hi Hajo, Henryk and Christoph,

Thanks a lot for kind words.

I’ve been on business trip last week first time after Covid-19.

Although there ware a lot of restrictions, it was great to meet the development partners in the country face to face and close issues ‘in the meeting’ instead of remote conference calls.

Hope whole world exit Covid-19 restriction soon.

Back to the locomotive build.

Made pressure gauges and attached.

Starting with paper pieces

Inserted the gauge pattern and attached small posts per each

Attached the brackets

And attached on the boiler

Not fully painted yet.

Will paint after installing wires.

Thanks a lot, Renee!

Added small pipes for the valves on the boiler.

Firstly, added the small valve handles.

The air valves at the right hand side. I think it is controlling sandbox (forward and backward selectively).

Added the relatively thinner pipes for the valves.

I guess the compressed air comes from tank. And the sandbox valves are opened selectively (break aid, forward or backward)

My theory

Seen through the opening at the back

The valve at the top

Painted and weathered

And,

One more small component.

Took longer than I thought at the beginning.

Starting from paper pieces

Assembled together

Sanded the small thing for long time and got the shape ready for the next step

Attached some more details

Painted and weathered

And attached to the boiler

Completed the pipes for the valves at the side.

Prepared and attached pipes (20 gauge)

Painted

And Weathered

Seen through the opening at the back

As you can see, the pipe connections are based on limited reference photos and my imagination.

I think Draccus will show the proper connections.

Another week starts.

Hi Helmut,

Thanks a lot!

A little progress made.

two more pipe straight down to the floor, and two valves/splitter.

First valve

And attached the 2nd one.

A picture with wide angle.

Coming to the work that I have low confidence. I’m looking at Precyzyjny’s work as close as possible to complete it.

As the first step, attached two obvious pipes; the top one and the one go straight down to the floor.

And painted

It feels like to be long process.

Thanks, Draccus

Making some more progress

Assembled

Painted

weathered

And attached to boiler

Seen through the opening at the end

Added more stuffs

The control which I guess controls the direction (forward / backward) and the speed. I’m not locomotive expert.

So, please correct me if I’m wrong.

Starting from threaded shaft, winding thin wire on 20 gauge solid wire.

Assembly completed

Painted

And weathered

Mounted on the boiler.

I think it’s something that pushes and pulls the control rod that determines the direction and speed.

Seen through the opening at the back.

Kudos, Matthias!

Hi Henryk,

Thanks a lot !

Added some detail on the box, the guide for shafts, shafts and valve handles.

Painted and weathered

Fit check.

And attached to the boiler end.

It was very busy week.

A lot of issues and meetings to resolve problems at multiple locations.

Now, I think things got back to the main track again and move forward.🤞

Finally, after the last Friday evening meeting, resumed paper locomotive.

As the last step of locomotive exterior, added the posts next to the headlights.

And, finally,

Begin the driver’s booth interior work.

Made the first part of it.

I’m trying to gather as many pictures and other build reports for the build as possible. If any of you know the links to any site that has quality pictures of Ty2 driver’s booth internal, please kindly share.

Thanks Hanns

Right hand side.

The pipe that connects compressor and boiler was too simple comparing to Rainer’s.

So, I added some detail. May not be as authentic as Rainer’s, it’s best I can get at this stage.

Starting from small star-shape paper.

Added connectors both sides

Embedded magnets inside.

Painted and weathered

Mounted on the position.

Beginning of the driver’s booth internal.

Although there’re not much parts attached, all are neat and look so real. I’ll follow you.

Looking forward to it!

Valve handles are attached

Starting from small paper pieces

Assembled

Painted in black

Added red accent

Attached on valves

Current status

Added the steps

Firstly, the bottom step on Driver’s booth ladder was broken. It was restored together.

Fit check.

Parts being prepared

Painted

And mounted

Applied weathering

Attached the hand rail both sides.

Also made the rail detachable using small magnets.

Prepared the soils wire (20gauge)

And made the posts

It has two parts.

Magnets hold them together

Attaching on the boiler and the wire.

Applied the black base, and painted red color on the handrail, weathered.

And attached those handrail parts.

Hi Ulrich and Peter,

Thanks a lot for the comment.

Those words will make me reach the finish line.

Right hand side sandbox pipes are done.

Wires are ready (length and shape)

No special skill required but patience and mind control.

Painted in black and weathering one by one

Completed

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