Picture 43 of 100 on the road to the prime lens.
Month: September 2017
Road to Prime Lens (42%)
Picture 42 of 100 on the road to the prime lens.
Porter: Detailing and Knuckle Couplers
Since the first test run some time has passed by, but there have been only a few opportunities to make progress with the tender’s construction. Nevertheless I managed to slip into the shop now and then and today I’d like to summarize the progress.
The most important thing first: the tender’s got a knuckle coupler. On the one hand it seemed plausible to me, since I’m going to model a railroad at the beginning of the 20th century, as mentioned on creating the blueprints. On the other hand I’m hoping for easier operations. I’ve already got some experience with link and pin couplers and I find it quite cumbersome to pull and put the links and pins between the cars with a long set of tweezers. Knuckle couplers however allow for automatic coupling at the best of times, especially if you can set brakes on the cars. Decoupling is even easier if you have cut levers at the side of the cars or use an R/C-controlled servo to pull the pin.
A Timewarp and Construction Diaries
A lot has been going on in the last months, hence I haven’t found much time to post on this site.
I posted the last updates on building the Porter tender in single posts, with their date matching the days when I actually worked on the model. Since some of them date back several months, here’s a list of new posts:
- Garden Railway: The First Oval (July 13, 2017)
- Porter Tender: Paintwork (June 20, 2017)
- Porter and Tender: Coupling (May 28, 2017)
- Porter: Conversion to Battery Power (May 25, 2017)
Besides that I created an index page listing all posts concerning my construction diaries. I hope this will make it easier to find specific steps in the construction process. The index page is now listed as a submenu item of “Model Railway”.