Beside the Seaside (1:35 Coble and motorcycle and Caterpillar type tractor)

[chriswil42]

As a club we are truly blessed to have a member with such skill,
Bigkev

And building at an incredible rate! The rest of us have much to catch up on.

[cph64]

And he does that including a lot of scratch building. Fantastic.

[zak]

Well 1/35 is 8.709 mm = 1 foot, so OO gauge track has a gauge of 16.5mm, so it is about 2ft.

So I have been scratch building a coach in 1/35 scale on the lines of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway.
Here it is undercoated, running on Hornby OO bogies, I still need to come up with a livery.

Completely out of card of various thicknesses.
It is about 1 ft long, I need a few more and a loco to pull them, then a model railway layout to run them on, it never stops!

[MSea]

Have you gone down from 20 minutes sleep a day, to only 5 minutes a day ?? that's the only way I can figure out your speed of construction.

[chriswil42]

It's amazing built out of card. Hats off to you Dave.

[zak]

That was the prototype, this is number two.

This will help to show how it was built.
I have used various card overlays to get the detail on the coach side.
Three or four of these overlays have the apertures cut in them and then they are all glued together.
I always give card a coat of shellac to help stabilise it a little.

This one has slightly thicker card for the interior side of the coach, this may be a mistake, it was much easier to cut thinner card and it may be better to glue several thinner ones together in future.

I bought the bogies from Cropper, I need to go back and buy the rest of his stock and some brass wire as well.
The prototype coach still needs glazing, door handles, grab rails. foot steps and so on adding, and painting of course.

This all happens as I wait for the car to dry and so on.

[MSea]

Blown away - that's all I can say.

[chriswil42]

I still think the cardboard construction is amazing. Do you get the 'plans' off the internet Dave?

[zak]

I still think the cardboard construction is amazing. Do you get the 'plans' off the internet Dave?

No, out of books and then resized on the printer.

[Red Lancer]

Amazing!
I may have missed it in the previous pages but just how big is this diorama?
Is there a Lighthouse?

[Bigkev]

Amazing!
I may have missed it in the previous pages but just how big is this diorama?
Is there a Lighthouse?

O, oh...!
Now you've done it.
As we speak, Zak, is contemplating his next addition.
Bigkev

[zak]

Did someone mention a lighthouse?
Here is one.
Sadly the wrong scale, but thanks for the idea..............................

[MSea]

HOW that's all I am going to say.

[zak]

HOW that's all I am going to say.

It was something from the stash, from when I was building small 1/350 dioramas of the Humber Forts.
I bought it from Mighty Lancer, part of the Cruel Seas Range, it is resin. I thought it would make a nice diorama, but I never used it.

[Haddock]

HOW that's all I am going to say.

This red indian bloke seems to pop up from time to time!