Hi friends. I'm back with a new build thread on a railway subject. This time with a very nice little locomotive I fell in love at first sight.
I think all of you have a drawer full of cardmodels you bought impulsively somewhere and put in there waiting for the inspiration to start building them. I've a room full of models (not only cardmodels) waiting to be "rediscovered"... I think, like most of you, I don't have a chance to live enough to build them all (and this is a consideration that saddens me a lot).
Anyway... even if I have several "big" projects halfway done I insist starting new builds instead of finishing the incomplete ones... This is one of those cases...
I heard this little locomotive calling me from the bottom of the drawer and I didn't have the heart to ignore the call. And so we are here to see how to deal with it.
This is a very nice model by Kurt Fehling (KF Modell) that has the particularity of being printed in different colored cardboard sheets. This should avoid the need to paint the edges because they are in the right color. Anyway the final result is not at the quality level of a color printed model (the sheets are printed in black). Especially the black parts (printed in black on dark grey cardboard) doesn't show well their details and the overall result is a little bit "confuse".
I decided to try a new "build style" that I saw often used from other modelers. I'll scan all the parts, print them on white cardboard, add all the surface details (bolts, rivets, panels...) and, once finished, I'll paint the model like if it was a plastic one. This way I will be also able to add all the extra details I'll realize to enhance the model.
I found a german forum where a real "master" did a wonderful work building a great model on this subject. He had the chance to see the originalm loco in a museum and has a lot of documentation. I contacted him and he was very kind and accepted to collaborate with me giving me all the help I'll need during the build.
So let's start...
This is the PtL 2/2 "Glaskasten" (glass box) a very tiny and nice loco-tender used from 1908 in the Royal Bavarian State Railways branch lines, and survived after the WWII where they operated for the Deutsche Bundesbahn until 1963.
And this is the cardmodel I started from. You can see the colored cardboard sheets printed in black. Only one is white and printed in color.
I scanned all the the sheets, printed them on white cardboard and started drawing several additional details to be added to the chassis to enhance the shapes. My work is based on the documentation I received from my new german friend.
This is, just to give an idea, the first batch of new pieces I realized to complete the chassis.
And the build starts...
Some of the chassis parts ready to be assembled
All the parts you see here are taken straight from KF model.
To strenghten the structure and keep it square I added little triangles at the corners
I think all of you have a drawer full of cardmodels you bought impulsively somewhere and put in there waiting for the inspiration to start building them. I've a room full of models (not only cardmodels) waiting to be "rediscovered"... I think, like most of you, I don't have a chance to live enough to build them all (and this is a consideration that saddens me a lot).
Anyway... even if I have several "big" projects halfway done I insist starting new builds instead of finishing the incomplete ones... This is one of those cases...
I heard this little locomotive calling me from the bottom of the drawer and I didn't have the heart to ignore the call. And so we are here to see how to deal with it.
This is a very nice model by Kurt Fehling (KF Modell) that has the particularity of being printed in different colored cardboard sheets. This should avoid the need to paint the edges because they are in the right color. Anyway the final result is not at the quality level of a color printed model (the sheets are printed in black). Especially the black parts (printed in black on dark grey cardboard) doesn't show well their details and the overall result is a little bit "confuse".
I decided to try a new "build style" that I saw often used from other modelers. I'll scan all the parts, print them on white cardboard, add all the surface details (bolts, rivets, panels...) and, once finished, I'll paint the model like if it was a plastic one. This way I will be also able to add all the extra details I'll realize to enhance the model.
I found a german forum where a real "master" did a wonderful work building a great model on this subject. He had the chance to see the originalm loco in a museum and has a lot of documentation. I contacted him and he was very kind and accepted to collaborate with me giving me all the help I'll need during the build.
So let's start...
This is the PtL 2/2 "Glaskasten" (glass box) a very tiny and nice loco-tender used from 1908 in the Royal Bavarian State Railways branch lines, and survived after the WWII where they operated for the Deutsche Bundesbahn until 1963.
And this is the cardmodel I started from. You can see the colored cardboard sheets printed in black. Only one is white and printed in color.
I scanned all the the sheets, printed them on white cardboard and started drawing several additional details to be added to the chassis to enhance the shapes. My work is based on the documentation I received from my new german friend.
This is, just to give an idea, the first batch of new pieces I realized to complete the chassis.
And the build starts...
Some of the chassis parts ready to be assembled
All the parts you see here are taken straight from KF model.
To strenghten the structure and keep it square I added little triangles at the corners
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These bolts and rivets makes the parts pop. You are a verry gifted paper crafter