PT's 'Embra trem' **Finished**

Anything -- air, land, sea -- whose purpose is to haul any sort of cargo, to include people.
This GB runs 17th Feb through 31st March and your host is Old_Tonto.
User avatar
Purplethistle
Delusional Miniature Killer
Posts: 4680
Joined: July 10th, 2014, 1:03 am
Location: Glasgow

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by Purplethistle »

iggie wrote:Lovely work so far PT

Will a younger you be represented on the tram?
I'm too young to have been on a Glesga tram never mind an Embra wan!!!!!!!!! (Glasgow trams stopped running in '62 Edinburgh in '56)
"Spits, SLUFS and Rock 'n' Roll"
User avatar
iggie
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 23360
Joined: July 31st, 2013, 11:04 am
Location: North Somercotes, Lincolnshire
Contact:

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by iggie »

Purplethistle wrote:
iggie wrote:Lovely work so far PT

Will a younger you be represented on the tram?
I'm too young to have been on a Glesga tram never mind an Embra wan!!!!!!!!! (Glasgow trams stopped running in '62 Edinburgh in '56)
:oops: :oops:

:-D :-D
Best wishes

Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
User avatar
Purplethistle
Delusional Miniature Killer
Posts: 4680
Joined: July 10th, 2014, 1:03 am
Location: Glasgow

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by Purplethistle »

Most of the windows in now. the ridge around the inside edge is so fiendishly small to see that I don't know how I would have got on if I was as old as Iggie seems to think I am! :ha:
The Airfix Platform figures set has 2 types of seated figure, 1 man who looked like a crap spy and 1 woman who looks like a prim schoolteacher (3 of each) I thought it would have been too much to have 3 obvious spies on one tram, so some conversion work was dome to make one into a driver. one of the 2 remaining spies will be altered to be reading a newspaper ( or cunningly watching through two eyeholes in the newspaper!)
The Stationmaster figure has had the coat over his arm cut down to make a money bag and is now the tram conductor.


Image


Image
"Spits, SLUFS and Rock 'n' Roll"
User avatar
DavidWomby
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 11706
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 8:09 pm
Location: Florida, USA

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by DavidWomby »

Gosh that interior is looking really impressive, PT. Not just the tiny, customized figures but you've even got the metal handles on the seat backs!!

David
User avatar
splash
Senior Service Rotorhead
Posts: 13828
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 11:02 am
Location: Somerset England

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by splash »

Excellent work I love the spy v spy passenger set
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
User avatar
JohnRatzenberger
Why is he so confused ?
Posts: 15708
Joined: April 5th, 2011, 3:42 pm
Location: Living on a sandbar - Nags Head, NC.

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by JohnRatzenberger »

When I did the card interiors & figures for the Kitmaster coaches for our SMW 2015 display, it seemed like 25% of the guys and another 25% of the gals wore trench coats with hats pulled down. Must be something in the water over there :)
John Ratzenberger :???:
It's my model and I'll do what I want with it.
User avatar
Purplethistle
Delusional Miniature Killer
Posts: 4680
Joined: July 10th, 2014, 1:03 am
Location: Glasgow

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by Purplethistle »

I had just been congratulating myself on managing to not ping off into oblivion any of the tiny 2mm x 2mm windows or the teeny tiny throttle and brake handles when I had an Ooops moment and dropped one of the sides onto the glued up interior decks. The glue made a mess of all the lower saloon windows on that side which displeased me somewhat! However, after exhausting my not inconsiderable vocabulary of international bad words ( including Serbo-Croat, which has some eye-wateringly specific oaths) I explored alternative glazing and found that acetate sheets for an overhead projector not only does the job, but looks a lot clearer! now I have the dilemma of wondering if I should replace ALL the main windows this way.
"Spits, SLUFS and Rock 'n' Roll"
User avatar
splash
Senior Service Rotorhead
Posts: 13828
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 11:02 am
Location: Somerset England

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by splash »

Purplethistle wrote:I have the dilemma of wondering if I should replace ALL the main windows this way.
What do you mean, fit them and then drop them in glue :-D
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
User avatar
Purplethistle
Delusional Miniature Killer
Posts: 4680
Joined: July 10th, 2014, 1:03 am
Location: Glasgow

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by Purplethistle »

Not posted for a few days, but if I had the posts would have all read, -' Putting sides on but knocked in a couple of windows in the process' apart from yesterday which would have read, 'Ends, sides and roof on...but now have to try to retrieve and reaffix two knocked in windows! :evil: '

(Window retrieval method is to straighten a paper clip, affix a tiny blob of chewing gum to end, 'catch' the window on the chewing gum, line it up, apply clearfix to window frame, then using gummy paperclip pull and hold window into place.) It was all very 'Well done me!' the first 2 or 3 times but it is getting very old now!
"Spits, SLUFS and Rock 'n' Roll"
User avatar
DavidWomby
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 11706
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 8:09 pm
Location: Florida, USA

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by DavidWomby »

I applaud your dedication to your art, PT!

David
User avatar
splash
Senior Service Rotorhead
Posts: 13828
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 11:02 am
Location: Somerset England

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by splash »

What flavour of chewing gum works the best? :-D
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
User avatar
Purplethistle
Delusional Miniature Killer
Posts: 4680
Joined: July 10th, 2014, 1:03 am
Location: Glasgow

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by Purplethistle »

splash wrote:What flavour of chewing gum works the best? :-D
Given that I have to shoogle the paper clip about a fair bit to capture the elusive transparencies, I find that anything by 'Wrigley' does what it says on the tin! :ha:
"Spits, SLUFS and Rock 'n' Roll"
User avatar
splash
Senior Service Rotorhead
Posts: 13828
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 11:02 am
Location: Somerset England

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by splash »

:ha: :ha: :ha:
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
User avatar
iggie
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 23360
Joined: July 31st, 2013, 11:04 am
Location: North Somercotes, Lincolnshire
Contact:

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by iggie »

Kind of prototypical really; I bet a fair amount of gum gets scraped off the average bus window from time to time! :shock:
Nice save though :grin:
Best wishes

Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
User avatar
Purplethistle
Delusional Miniature Killer
Posts: 4680
Joined: July 10th, 2014, 1:03 am
Location: Glasgow

Re: PT's 'Embra trem'

Post by Purplethistle »

The other end and the roof are actually on now (dislodging 2 more windows on the lower deck that had to be fished out and replaced :evil: )
The newspaper in Crap Spy's hands is a much reduced copy of Pravda with two wee spyholes in the front. Too small to see, so that was half an hour I won't get back!


Image
"Spits, SLUFS and Rock 'n' Roll"
Locked

Return to “Cargo Haulers”