I've Finished...

Don't worry I'm not closing the blog, rather I'm intriducing a new series of videos I've started recording. The idea being that when I've finished building a kit or designing a new kit, I'll do a wrap up video that discusses all the interesting aspects and things I've learnt along the way. While I plan to do this going forward I also thought it would be interesting to go back and do videos for the locomotive models I've already finished.

I'm planning to try and release a new video each Monday (at least until I run out) and actually started this off last week. Unfortunately there was a bit of an issue with the first video as the sound went missing somewhere between my laptop and YouTube. Whilst I fixed that I did forget to blog last week to introduce the series. The upshot of that is that there are now two videos for you to watch and enjoy.

First up we are looking at the 99hp Baguley-Drewry loco I built from a kit by Narrow Planet

And for the second video we have the "Alice" class Quarry Hunslet built from a kit by Brian Madge

Magnetic Side Panels

A short update on the 16mm scale Hudson-Hunslet build involving the side panels and some tiny magnets

Broken But Moving

It's taken a while (work and family commitments meant not much time for modelling) but U've finally got a little further with the 16mm scale build of the 24hp Hudson-Hunslet diesel loco.

Feet in the Footwell

Two videos in todays post, both of which are about finally sorting the footwell problem

Dots Per Inch

I now know why the paper test "etches" didn't fit properly...

Cast Off Parts, But a Working Model

So for part three of this design/build process I decied to see what would happen if I simply stuck all the parts I'd printed together, even though there is something wrong with nearly all of them.

I'm intending to post most of the videos for this project to the blog, but if you want to make sure you don't miss any then you can use this link to subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Getting the Measurements Right (Mostly)

Quite surprisingly I've really quite enjoyed branching out and recording videos that describe what I'm currently working on. Don't worry this blog isn't going anywhere and will continue to be mainly text based, but I've decided that I'm going to do most of the posts on the 16mm scale 24hp Hudson Hunslet build as videos as they allow me to explain my thinking and design process in a way which is much easier (and quicker) than trying to write it all down. So, here is part two....