I had Thursday off and decided to do some work on my scratch built ballast wagon and scratch built ballast plough. The ballast wagon, was to have the decals added. That was quite easy, but I could not find a set of decals for the NHBF wagon. So I had to cut up some decals from a couple of different sets. I was certain that I did have a set of decals, and I must have put a set away for safe keeping. No doubt these will turn up eventually if I did originally have a set. The ballast plough modelling work involved adding all the brake wheels, the plough wheels, the air hoses and doing a bit of painting touch up.
Saturday I went to the Club and Laurie MMR was there. I showed him the improvements I did for the two grain wagons, the ballast wagon and the ballast plough so far. He was very impressed, and thought that they would all get a merit score in judging. At that stage I still needed to add the decals to the plough and some chain underneath the wagon to link the wheels to the plough.
While at the Club, I was amazed at the amount of QR 12mm stuff running around on the top deck of the HO layout. I also picked up a DCC Hi-Rail Car. I will see what I can do with that. Like extra pickups, maybe changing the shell to be more NSW outline. But we will see.
Upon return home I continued the work on the Ballast Wagon. I did some more work on the wheels and the bogies. I then started to get everything together to continue work on the ballast plough wagon. These included painting the brass wires connecting the brake and plough wheels from one side of the wagon to the other. I still have a bit of work to do, like adding crew, an air tank and chain to the plough.
Today I completed the adding of the decals on the ballast plough. I might take them along to our Tuesday Nighters meeting this week to get some more feedback.
The next wagon to decal up will be the scratchbuilt NOCY wagon. I have the decals out and I might be able to do that later tonight while watching the cricket. So after this has occurred, I will then have 5 wagons completed to present at the upcoming NMRA Convention in Sydney in September/October.
The next task will be to address all the comments that Laurie MMR made about my FAM passenger car. Some of these are quite severe rebuilds of some parts of the passenger coach. It includes the internal walls and the lighting circuits that I installed. I will consider these very closely, to see how I can progress them.
That then allows me to turn my attention to going back and continuing the rebuilds of my QR HO wagons. These wagons have not been touched for over 18 months. I was going to pull off some external detail that I made with 0.020” styrene rod, and replace them with 0.010” and 0.020” brass wire. This was the constructive feed back I received from Arthur Hayes MMR. I also have to add all the external detail to these wagons like brake gear, brake hoses, uncoupler lift bars, air piping, internal flooring, and then decaling the wagon. I’m not sure where I can find appropriate decals for this wagon. I will have to do some research. I also made a template for the internal floor for these wagons, but I cannot find it on my office desk. So I have no idea where it disappeared to. So I might have to make another one. If so I am not looking forward to that task.
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