Modified Fowler Inspection loco

[michael mott]

Thanks all for the kind words, I made a little more progress today, I made a small bridge plate to connect the floor sections. The hex nuts are placeholders till I get some square ones made.

I am also checking the proportions of the canopy.









Michael

[Frederic Testard]

Superb.

[Ken Hamilton]

There's some serious all-around, multi-media craftsmanship going on here.....
Beautiful work, Michael

[Chuck Doan]

That actually looks like it would be pretty comfortable.

[michael mott]

a little more progress the pipework is now soldered together, and a new design for the canvas canopy because the other designs were not satisfactory. The new canopy called for grommets so I had to make them.

they are .081 overall diameter.







The lacing is a brown Coban cotton thread







that is all so far.

Michael

[lab-dad]

Excellent!
Such a simple solution too!
-Marty

[Malachi Constant]

Wow, you are definitely making the most out of modeling in the larger scale ... great stuff.  -- Dallas

[finescalerr]

Satisfactory. -- Russ

[Chuck Doan]

Amazing! I feel better now seeing someone more detail crazy than me.

[Ray Dunakin]

Looking good! How'd you make the tiny grommets?

[Wesleybeks]

Thats just mind blowing. Did you use regular canvas for the roof?

[danpickard]

Thats a superbly clean modelled effort.  Working large scale does have its advantages.  Its starting to look like an excellent collectors piece.  Thanks for the continued updates.

Cheers,
Dan

[michael mott]

Thanks everyone for the support.
regarding how I made the grommets, just put some .081" brass rod in the lathe then turned down a shoulder to .060" x .030" then drilled a hole with the smallest centre drill .050" just deep enough to let the chamfer reach the end face, then switched parting tools and parted it off leaving a .010" flange. they did get a bet tedious and next time I will use these

http://www.eyeletoutlet.com/round-eyelets.html which I found out about afterwards. These will be great for sails on model boats as well. they have them in 1/8th and 1/16th


cheers Michael

[billmart]

As  usual, your dedication and skill have blown me away!  On the eyelet website, does 1/16th inch refer to the size of hole required for the eyelet, or something else?

Bill Martinsen

[michael mott]

Hi Bill
I was told that the 1/16 refers to the overall diameter of the eyelet, I am hoping to order some so when I get some I will post a drawing of the actual size. with all the relevant dimensions.

regards Michael