Oh how the last 6 months seem to have gone by so quick yet it feels like Dad's been gone much longer. His memory lives on for me on these models...
Oh how the last 6 months seem to have gone by so quick yet it feels like Dad's been gone much longer. His memory lives on for me on these models...
James - posted on an entry (two back) - repeat: James, that does look very nice. The smoke box already seems to have a glossy finish... did you mask this first?
ReplyDeleteOK... but now it looks very nice indeed.
As for the last twelve months; it can be hard, but you've done so much and it will be so worth it - remember, apart from everything else, there's those summer evenings (summer - yes, we'll have one again) with a beer and burger watching the trains go by - it'll be great!
Oh... and a request: I wanted to go back and ask about the resin rivets.... did your pack cover a variety of rivets and fasteners? I was considering the pack with just the 0.008" (0.2mm) rivets as a) these are available, and b) I thought they might be right for what I need - but before I made an outlay... I thought I'd ask you as you'd played with these.
Right - back to the permanent way work on my boys' 8x4 roundy... and back to adding the filler caps to my deltic fuel tanks
I went for the 'Bridge rivets in 7mm' scale - they were 0.9mm IIRC but they work out smaller as they're a little flatter than some. 0.2mm might be ok, but might disappear in the painting/weathering process.
ReplyDeleteGood luck on the 8x4 :) Start them young. Elly's got two trainsets (one OO and one G!)