Feldbahnmodule with ship

[finescalerr]

Your ability to create superb components from metal always impresses me. -- Russ

[Stuart]

I don't know what it is about you European modelers.  Your work always seems to be a step above the rest.

Stuart

[fspg2]

@ Stuart
...is Chuck European? Are you and several of the model builders here also from Europe? 

Hello everyone,

on we go with the lower gate. Unlike the upper gate, it has a second hinge on each side!

Alter_Lagerschuppen_005 (fspg2)


The gate was scaled to the required size of 56.8 mm x 84.0 mm and printed out on white paper.
Cut out, it served to check the size on the model. The door pintles can be given their proper, prototypical positions later.

Alter_Lagerschuppen_363 (fspg2)


It's funny how small parts often take much more time than you'd think.
So the two-piece strap hinges for the lower gate were fitted with 0.5 mm and 0.6 mm holes and brought to the required length.

Alter_Lagerschuppen_364 (fspg2)


Alter_Lagerschuppen_365 (fspg2)


Alter_Lagerschuppen_366 (fspg2)


Next, I sawed individual boards (or rather, little boards) from 1.0 mm linden wood to the required widths on the Böhler circular saw using the rip fence.
As before, I stuck the wood strips produced this way onto the mirrored drawing with Gudy 870 adhesive film (that way, the inner boards could be glued on right away with tiny drops of white glue).

Alter_Lagerschuppen_362 (fspg2)


A bottom stop and a few red and blue markings served to align the inner counter-boards of the strap hinges correctly.
The diagonal support boards and the rounded top will follow later.

Alter_Lagerschuppen_367 (fspg2)


On the CNC mill, the corresponding holes for attaching the strap hinges were then drilled in a small Pertinax (phenolic laminate) jig.

Alter_Lagerschuppen_368 (fspg2)


Alter_Lagerschuppen_369 (fspg2)


During a trial assembly of the first strap hinge, it turned out that the 0.5 mm and 0.6 mm rivets were much easier to mount after I redrilled all the holes 0.1 mm larger.

Alter_Lagerschuppen_370 (fspg2)

[Bill Gill]

Very well done.
For a minute the torn paper at the top of the doors looked like you found some of the ragged Teflon window curtains from Chuck's recent post

[Bernhard]

Great job again. With photo 363, I had to look twice before I realized that was the model.

Bernhard

[finescalerr]

That door is as perfect as a miniature can get. Satisfactory. -- Russ

[fspg2]

The gate elements, which I had glued together with wood glue, got a first treatment with a gray stain and were stood upright to dry.
The next morning I saw this pile of boards - what had happened here?

Alter_Lagerschuppen_371 (fspg2)


A good friend immediately suspected that someone must have needed all the fittings and carriage bolts, and that they probably ended up at a scrap dealer... :shock:

The mistake was my own doing. I had glued all the wooden "boards" together with express wood glue. It held wonderfully until the parts were dipped into the water-soluble gray wood stain, and overnight the old glue joints simply came apart again in several places.

The repair was done with waterproof wood glue, which I applied in spots with a thin piece of wire. I pressed the parts together briefly with my fingers and immediately removed the slight squeeze-out in a few places with a scraper. Small clamps held everything together.

I was able to press the hinge straps and rivets (carriage bolts) back into the existing drill holes, so I got back to the desired state relatively quickly.

Alter_Lagerschuppen_372 (fspg2)


On the inside, M0.8 mm hex nuts will still be glued onto the visible ends of the rivets with a tiny drop of Loctite 648.

Beforehand, I reamed out the M0.8 mm hex nuts with a mini reamer, because a 0.8 mm thread simply doesn't fit onto a 0.8 mm wire :!:

Alter_Lagerschuppen_356 (fspg2)


Further treatments with heavily diluted glazes and pigments will follow, so that everything looks a little older and resembles the prototype more closely!

Alter_Lagerschuppen_006 (fspg2)

[Stuart]

Good save on the door!

Stuart

[finescalerr]

I once made the same mistake as Frithjof and an entire water tank base fell apart. Does that put me in the same category of excellence as Frithjof? -- ssuR

[Bill Gill]

Fritjof, Your recovery of the door worked very well.I don't see any evidence of the collapse.