Thread: Occre Stephenson's Rocket 1/24 My second build

Good progress already Paul...well done..cheers, crowie

Okay back again.
Painted up the steam bits on top & fitted
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Straitened more wire in the vice and cut to size
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Put on the pipes

Assembled and put on the pistons, then realised that I had out them on back to front and had to pull it apart and re do.
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put template on aluminium and cut for chimney stack.
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Painted up the stack and more wire, then applied.
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Sitting on wheels temp prior to painting and fitting.
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See you next week.

Engine Wheels completed & fitted ( 100 Rivets/Pins ahhrrrgg )
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Coal & Water carrier & wheels Assembled.
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Wheels with no Rivets
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The dreded water barrel. Took over a week on its own. No difficult just very fiddly as such a small size. (2cm x 5cm ish)
Double skinned.
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Made my own stand based on a 40$ kit from Occre. THe wood was left over from this Kit & the Amati stagecoach ( I now see saving lots of left overs), and a piece of pine from some shelving.
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The finished Kit.
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Final thoughts:
Kit was a lot of Fun. The instructions had to be read carefully as the photos were out of scale in some instances, but were in build order. The english instructions were sparce and the parts list was the only location where size of wood cuts & type was listed. You had to read all instruction pieces to understand.

Anyway awaiting my Wooden Clock Model from ThinkGeek.com. Want to start the little Ship Kit but will wait for clock first.

Also trying to figure out how to convince the missus that I always had a Scroll saw... and a Drill press and a ....Bench Sander... ( Dream on...)

Very well done Paul.....it's come up a treat!!

I always thought you had all those machines in your shed from years ago,
just hadn't had a great deal of time to unpack them and use them until now..........

Please post the link in model making to the clock as I'm sure many would also like to see your build on it along with the ship when it also happens, thank you... .....

Keep up the good work and finding all those tools you'd forgotten you had buried in the back of the shed.......
Cheers, crowie

Impressive.