Skip With Brake 1/10 Scale

The second laser cut kit from the Feldbahnfactory-delivery is approaching a finished stage. Although time for modelling has been quite limited, the skip has slowly inched its way towards a finished stage. Now only final weathering is left before the braked skip and its cousin, the unbraked skip can be called completely finished.

Current status on the braked skip number 67. Looking quite worn and weathered even before I have begun the final stages of weathering. It will get worse!

Assembly presented no problems and with the experience gathered on the first, unbraked skip everything seemed like smooth sailing in well chartered waters. Even with the added parts of brake shoes and rodding no problems arose. The attentive viewer will notice, that the axle boxes on the braked skip are of a different type than those on the standard skip. I find it great that Feldbahnfactory have built in a little variety in the design with different pattern axle boxes. 

I also did some assembly on the kit in the summer cottage, and I managed to finish the basic frame and wheel assembly in two calm modelling evenings.

I painted the skip in the same as the standard skip, with rattle can spray paint: black primer from Games Workshop and Beltoni texture rust. I added dark grey and black from Vallejo with brush and added the number 67 on both ends of the skip body with etched stencils and semi-dry light sand paint stippled on. The wooden boards on the brake platform were scribed as being made from two planks and then heavily distressed with knife and coarse sanding sticks. The platform boards were then painted with a mix of heavily dileted oil paints and acrylic for the bolt heads. Both wagons are now ready for final weathering.

A single skip will make an impressive object for exhibition in your living room with careful lighting applied. No one will have doubts about your hobby!

Rhubarb on Rails

Spring is well advanced in Denmark and modelling time has been awfully limited. Work and other tasks have taken up too much time. But the first harvest from the garden's rhubarb plants is traditionally carried out with assistance from a 1/19 scale industrial railway on transportable tracks. This year wasn't any different.

This year's rhubarb train was made up from the light and versatile Lister R, two timber bolster bogies and Peco SM32 track panels.

In comparison to the rhubarb train of 2022, this year's train had progressed considerably. Proper wagons for the transport of rhubarb stalks had been finished in 2024. Mostly used for the transport of timber, the timber bogies are 3D printed items from Rail Print detailed and painted. As a further improvement to earlier rhubarb seasons, this year I had managed to paint the track panels a nice rusty colour to blend in better with the surrounding nature. Wet weather and slippery rail heads limited the train length, though. As a consequence only timber bogie 72 and 79 was in use during the rhubarb campaign.