Tutorial Tuesday Episode 16 - How To Make A Model Railway Wagon Kit - Dapol 

Ouch, that's the cost of living crisis for you lol. I use lead offcuts I got from a roofing company a few years back

It's very satisfying making your own wagons

Thanks, that was the aim

Sadly the fumes make me ill!

I find the Revell applicator with the thin metal tube to be the most useful way of applying liquid poly

I fill the bearings with vaselene. Some of my Airfix/Dapol kits are still running 30 years on after this treatment as good as the day I did them.

They are potentially a good option, wagons are so expensive now given you need six plus to make a decent looking consist

@KP3 A kit is a pile o'parts that need assembly AND painting. (keeps us out of the liquor locker a bit longer)

super glue

Thanks, that was the aim of the video

Thanks for subscribing Keith glad you liked it

It should look even better once it's painted , video on that out next week

It would kind of defeat the budget object to start buying tools and fittings

Mine came with some transfers but not sure what they were of, possibly worth googling it

I might have a look at the coaches, as you say with new ones £25+ they are a big saving

Budget Model Railways i have two of them coaches, at the time i bought them ready to run coaches were only £4/£5 more but now with them coaches being £45+ and plastic kit coaches being at £12 or there abouts you can get 3/4 coaches to the price of 1, I haven't been to dapol for awhile so the stock of them may have changed but yea not bad for the price when you give them a bit of weathering

We will be covering painting it in next Tuesday's video

Budget Model Railways. You tease, you!

Thanks

Yes that's what I would do another time

The fumes of solvent make me I'll so I can't use it

@@BudgetModelRailways yes, 'old technology' products have the problem of fumes! Try 'Plastic Magic' by Delux Materials, Bramley, Hants, UK. My local model shop here in Sydney Australia stock it and recommended it to me as they didn't have any of the well know solvents, MEK etc. Since I purchased mine, I've seen a few more adverts for it and I've seen it in other model shops so it is more common now. To be honest, I was sceptical about it as I had never heard of it. I gave it a go and never looked back. It is odourless/no fumes and it has the benefit of being able to glue normal polystyrene plastics and ABS. It is really good stuff. I have no connection with the product other than as a satisfied customer. I would strongly recommend you use something like this over tube-glue because tube-glue just creates globules everywhere and really doesn't give a good finish. Just a tip.

@@gppsoftware thanks for the heads up I will look out for it. I've switched to super glue but it's not ideal, so this could be the answer thanks

@@BudgetModelRailways 'Super Glue' as in the cyno stuff is probably even less appropriate to building plastic kits than tube-glue! Having said that, I do use super glue for gluing metal parts to plastic kits and for securing very small parts which might break off easily. I use a tip of wire (like a pin) to place tiny droplets where needed. It really isn't meant to be used for plastic kits. It's awful stuff to work with, especially if you get it on your fingers'! And it has nasty fumes. Try 'Plastic Magic' and the job will be a whole lot easier.

It might be possible to add weight under the body, but I'm not familiar with the lomac kit so couldn't say for sure. I think it would be pretty tricky to paint completed ones neatly, hope this helps

@@BudgetModelRailways Muchly thank you

It's something we are looking into, thanks

I find that Hornby wagon wheels are a good replacement for Dapol wheels because Hornby wheels are properly profiled whereas Dapol's are not and don't run very well.

Buy decent wheels, 3d printed out of pla or something else you can't get the precision of a metal wheel .

Sorry, Not sure I'm not that up on my wagons. We tend to run whatever we like so it's not an issue for us

Yes it did as part of the international traffic into the UK with fresh produce from Italy and spain

No I test fitted them first, although they were a pretty good fit. I would imagine that would cut down well to make 009. Another annoying habit is beating us at cricket, very bad manners!

Ehhh......Mike....... ,what's cricket?

A game they beat us at

I'm so confused!!!!!! The only crickets that I know of are locust like insects. Really Old Boy I do so wish that you would speak proper English when in the presence of we Colonials. It's only recent history since Rex Harrison taught us about the Rain in Spain etc and et al

My apologies, I believe the correct term is dominians, or commonwealth rather than colonials.

A while.

Its a shame , as its not actually that expensive to post these its to Australia, but of course retailers have set charges

On the other hand if any of our kits interest you our postage to Australia is very reasonable as our kits go in large letters

Why not checkout Woodpecker Model Railways at Pendle Hill, Sydney ? They usually have these kits. There's a couple of stores in Melbourne who would probably stock them too. HobbyCo in Sydney is out of them at the moment...COVID has made them out of many things...

Of course if you want to

I'm guessing you could carefully prise them out, but curious as to why you would want to?

Budget Model Railways Mostly curiosity. I'd have thought it'd be easier to paint without the wheels. I gather they come with metal wheels so no need to swap out old plastic ones (if you didnt have metal wheels to fit from the start)

I see where you are coming from I should have painted the under neath parts before I assembled it, yes they are metal wheels now

Next Friday hopefully

Thanks, I struggle to paint them smoothly so that will be useful

Sorry meant next Tuesday!

Looking forward to that .Painting is truly the weakest of all my many weak points

We are working on it this weekend

I've struggled to get wagons on eBay inc postage for much less than £2, I've done a video on wagons which only cost me .50p but I wanted to do a vid to help those who are not that fortunate. £6 is still a lot less than the £17 for a new RTR one

I tried N, but found everything as, if not more, expensive even second hand I'm afraid. Also shunting does not work well which I enjoy. That's why I came up with the idea of the round and round layout in OO that's the same size as N gauge.

We are budget model railways so using a glue that costs more than the kit would kind of defeat the object, the ones I use work so that's all that matters