Bits, Pieces, & Clutter

eTraxx · April 17, 2011, 10:20:35 AM

I have a little program that I use for scaling. Called ScaleCalc. I put up a copy on a file-sharing service ..

http://www.gigasize.com/get/f44kd5stvjd

It's an .exe file. I checked it with Norton before uploading and it got a clean bill of health.

It will convert dynamically between two scales or a scale and prototype. You can also edit the scales, add new ones, delete whatever as you wish. It works great.

marc_reusser · April 17, 2011, 02:23:23 PM

Quote from: gfadvance on April 17, 2011, 05:26:30 AM
Nice details Marc, I need to add some oil cups to mine so all I need to do is buy a couple of 1/35 armour kits for a couple of bits about 3mm in size

Out of interest what thickness of plastic card are you using, I use this little guide I made to try and keep my little bits in scale ........... I appreciate its not overly accurate I just rounded up or down to the nearest thickness of card v typical imperial real life sizes.

Gordon,

Do I detect some sarcasm re my bits?

. You don't need to buy kits just for the parts (though I admit to doing so on far more than one occasion)....you just need to start about 30 or so kits where you end up kitbashing or scratch-building a large portion....and there you have it....instant boxes of junk that you can spend endless hours sifting through for one 3mm part that you could potentially adapt.

For the yoke I used .010 and .015 (closer to .013 after sanding) strip and sheet stock. I made a sim table to yours that hangs on the back of my bench. I included a column for 1/48 as well, as I do still build the occasional item in this scale, and it helps me quickly convert/approximate pre-cut O-scale stripwood sizes to 1/35. (I need to add an HO col. as well, as I frequently use HO stripwood for 1/35).

Marc

Ray Dunakin · April 17, 2011, 06:06:30 PM

That scale chart is a good idea. I should do one up in 1/24th, would save me a little time trying to remember (or recalculate) scale dimensions of standard styrene strips.

Gordon Ferguson · April 18, 2011, 12:58:45 AM

My son found this for me on the web ............ looks like I should add a few bits to my mixer .............. oh and I need to come up with a good reason why this American mixer is sitting abandoned in deepest UK.

W.P. Rayner · April 18, 2011, 06:10:29 AM

Quote from: gfadvance on April 18, 2011, 12:58:45 AM
My son found this for me on the web ............ looks like I should add a few bits to my mixer .............. oh and I need to come up with a good reason why this American mixer is sitting abandoned in deepest UK.

It was brought over during the war and some local lads managed to wrangle a deal with the Yanks in exchange for a case of Scotch...

Paul

marc_reusser · April 19, 2011, 01:29:21 AM

Paul, I was thinking along the same lines....but maybe itwas just laft behind by the Yanks after the war, "surplus materiel"...costs more to take it home than to have it clutter up the Limey countryside.

Gordon; Though the machines on that page are neat, I don't think you need more stuff on the machine...attached are to pics of ...sorta, kinda, maybe, the vaugest feel of yours....if you squint real hard.....at least sizewise....and they don't have more stuff.

Marc

marc_reusser · April 19, 2011, 02:23:50 AM

Here are two mixer images just for fun...note the top one is hand cranked and belt driven.

These images are croped from a "3-1" CD of road construction and construction machinery catalog PDF's, sold by Darryl Huffman. (unfortunately I dont have his site adress anywhere, the CD was $15.00)

marc_reusser · April 19, 2011, 02:24:52 AM

..and for Gordon....so he doesn't forget to build the concrete cart.

Younger · April 19, 2011, 07:10:05 AM

http://www.darrylhuffman.50megs.com/custom3.html

-Younger

Gordon Ferguson · April 19, 2011, 01:08:19 PM

Marc, thanks for the pictures, all added to the "mixer" file ............ they all have character, although the hand powered one must have been hard work !

Younger, thanks for the link .....could not resist and have ordered up the CD Marc mentioned.

Quote from: marc_reusser on April 19, 2011, 02:24:52 AM
..and for Gordon....so he doesn't forget to build the concrete cart.

Thanks, getting your own back now, shouldn't have mentioned the yoke should I ?

Actually just about finished a wheelbarrow that is very close to the one in the picture, and yes I am going to have to have a go at the other one ........ seen this type before but did not realise that they were used for moving cement.

However feel I should bring it to your attention that I am not the only one building a mixer so I expect to see a reciprocal gesture from you

Gordon Ferguson · April 19, 2011, 02:52:44 PM

Younger

One thing, in http://www.darrylhuffman.50megs.com/custom3.html, you might have warned me about the X rated images on the contact page

Nick appears to have escaped from the corner

chester · April 23, 2011, 04:52:38 PM

This little drop bottom concrete cart caught my eye.

eTraxx · April 23, 2011, 05:22:54 PM

Chester. That reminds me just a bit of the coal carts kit from the Train Troll. While I have no intention of using them to transport coal .. I think they will work great for my coke oven bank (I got three). There was an "ash boy" .. "After all the ovens included in the day's run have been drawn, a cart is driven along the block of ovens, and the ashes and refuse coke are collected from each oven and carted to the ash dump"