Quiet earth (was: Exercise module for Plettenberg railroad in 1/22.5 scale)

[Ray Dunakin]

Excellent! What did you use for the wire rope?

[Bill Gill]

The overhead trolley looks good already and if that isn't really some kind of real wire cable, it is very convincing!

[finescalerr]

It would be rather difficult to improve on that. -- Russ

[TRAINS1941]

Excellent work for sure!!

Jerry

[Hydrostat]

Thanks, guys.

The rope actually is 0.25 mm steel rope. Looking at the snatch block it may have been a tad thicker.

It would be rather difficult to improve on that. -- Russ

I'm not with you. It took to many layers to have the yellow color opaque enough on the grey primer and I think some sharpness got lost by that (adding to the limited fashioning of the used airbrush). On the other hand there are some print lines at the flange-mounted electric motor. Some additional dust and dirt will hide that.










Cheers,
Volker

[1-32]

Hi Volker.
I like the impression the steel rope has left reminds me of wax,
cheers

[lab-dad]

I don't recall seeing a castle nut ever on a model.
Can I get a couple dozen in several sizes? 🤪
Beautiful stuff Sir!
Martin

[EZnKY]

I noticed the castle nut as well.  Now to see the cotter pin to go with it!

Beautiful work!

[Hydrostat]

The crown nuts are part of the brass casting. At a former development state I planned to have them bored, cut a thread and insert a screw (with cotter pin) but then made an assembled casting and forgot to add the pin. Not sure if I'm able to add one because the castings aren't to well borable. Eric, go stand in the corner  .

[Hydrostat]

Eric, thanks for the encouragement, it wasn't that difficult: 0.4 mm bore holes with 0.15 mm copper wire for the cotter pins. You may come out of the corner now.








With Marcel Ackle's friendly assistance I was able to purchase four of the fans Marcel described here (german version). They will give some relief to the facade. Inside there are going to be ventilation shafts, that haven't been at the prototype, but I like the appearance, filling the room a bit more.




They are made from brass strips, taped together and rounded at the sanding disk.




Back sheet is bent over a bur shank.




Edges are made from 1,5 x 1,5 mm brass U-section.







Those tinned and partly burnished brass castings are going to be the runners for the crane's wiring.




Cheers,
Volker

[finescalerr]

Children, look what Uncle Volker has built! Can you say, "Extraordinary attention to detail?" -- Russ

[Design-HSB]

Volker, I knew you could do it with the split pins.

[EZnKY]

BRAVO on the cotter pins!!!!

[Ray Dunakin]

Astounding!

[Hydrostat]

I got stuck with the cable for the runners. This is 1 mm silicone line. For now I didn't put any more work into that than fixing it at the runners with CA, having it loosely lying/with no or low tension on the table.




Maybe rubber line would work better, but it tends to embrittle after some time. The silicone line has too much internal tension to dangle somewhat prototypically. Any ideas whether about other suitable materials or how to preserve rubber or making the silicone softer? Any advice would be much appreciated.


Cheers,
Volker