Ratty Top Wagon

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Ratty Top Wagon
Topic Started: 8 May 2009, 01:38 PM (222 Views)
Simon Moore	8 May 2009, 01:38 PM Post #1
Red Dragon Posts: 77 Group: Member Member #25 Joined: August 18, 2006	This has been posted on other forums but thought it might be of interest here due to the prototype. A balsa wood model of an R.& E.R built Top wagon. Following the acquisition of Sir Arthur Heywood's rolling stock the Ratty set about making several (7?) of these wagons to Heywoods design, clearly stencilled with N.G.R (Narrow Gauge Railways) down the side, left in bare wood the angle iron was also a bit different in design. All wood is wood, all metal is card blacked with permanent marker, the rails are paper clip wire likewise treated. Inside you can see the botched N.G.R lettering, done with an asatate/CD marker, I didn't seal the wood first so it spread through the grain. I tried again on the other side, sealing the wood with a spot of superglue first. No sandpaper...agh...



glastonrail	8 May 2009, 03:21 PM Post #2
Dommo Posts: 2,366 Group: Member Member #85 Joined: January 7, 2007	What gauge/scale?? Looks good for a first try. Dom
	"There's no such thing as sanity, and that's the sanest fact" M. Knopfler, 1985 Dragon Miniature Railway, Stockport http://www.freewebs.com/dragonrailway


Simon Moore	8 May 2009, 04:13 PM Post #3
Red Dragon Posts: 77 Group: Member Member #25 Joined: August 18, 2006	Cheers, it's not a first try as it happens, I post more of my stuff over at the Gnatterbox as it's not really miniature. It's Gn15, 1:24 working from the drawings in Mark Smithers' book Edited by Simon Moore, 8 May 2009, 05:37 PM.



MuzTrem	8 May 2009, 08:31 PM Post #4
Operations Manager Posts: 919 Group: Friends of MRMT Member #65 Joined: December 5, 2006	Looks good - much better than my ham-fisted attempts at modelling! Well done.



Simon Moore	10 May 2009, 11:41 AM Post #5
Red Dragon Posts: 77 Group: Member Member #25 Joined: August 18, 2006	Cheers! And it's the age old saying, practise practise practise makes perfect, well, improvement at least


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