I just received my Water Tank and Handcar Repair kit today. Of course I opened box and had a look at what was inside. I am not going to post pictures of me opening the box or of all the great parts inside. Karl has already covered that in great detail. I am looking forward to getting to work on my own build and posting pictures and comments of my work. I hope you follow along and comment and make suggestions about how I can improve my model. Thanks Randy
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Keep us all updated as you go along.
This results in a nice point that will go through the hole in the board.
I then go on with the usual technique of making a hole in the wood with the tip of a hobby knife, enlarging it with a bead reamer, and then glueing in the pointed balsa wood.
Here are three boards with the balsa wood in place and the glue dried. The pile of wood at the top of the picture is the wood I plan to add knots to. this is about half of the siding.
As I said at the start I don't like knots that stick up proud of the surface of the board. I use nippers to cut off the extra balsa wood.
This leaves, to me at least, an unsightly big blob.
I then us a razor blade to slice off the blob of balsa and glue. I cut from both ways until I can not feel a bump.
Which leaves a nice tight flush knot.
As I said Ken not a big difference but one I used on my Truck Repair and I liked the results. I hope Brett doesn't mind all the pictures. Thanks, Randy
randy, your process may be made a little shorter by using a flush cutting toe nail clipper. i use one and it usually picks the glue glob right up with the stub that[s being cut off.
Clip and then flip the board and push the knot flush to the outside, then clip the inside if needed and sand flush on the inside with a nail file, if the interior is visible.
Your knots are looking great Randy with your method also.
So back on track. I grained the wood using three different steel brushes shown in the picture below.
about half of the wood was grained with the pipe brush, and about a forth was done with each of the other two brushes. here are three boards with one done with each of the brushes.
The one on the left was grained with the yellow brush, the board in the middle was done with the brush with the long stiff bristles, and the last board was grained with the pipe brush.
I then went on to adding the saw banding marks with a razor blade.
I was rather proud of myself while doing this. I only cut one board into two pieces.
I plan to finish up the knots tonight. The next step will be to stain this batch of wood. I am just waiting for Rich Rands to get back with me to tell me what color he would like the wood to be stained. Thanks for reading and for any comments. Randy
The wood is stained. Rich likes a more gray color than Brett's instruction calls for. I used Joel's coloring suggestion, from his Truck Repair build, of white and black chalk for the largest part of the wood.
Some of the oversized knots can be seen. Also two spots where I scraped with a razor blade and sanded to get rid of the big knots. The rest of the wood was stained closer to Brett's instructions. I used the 408.3 and 408.5 chalks with a little black on a very few boards.
The boards that are a little more gray will be used on outside edges of breezeway where the boards would get more sun and rain. The third from the right will go next to the opening and the fourth from the right will be next. then the other boards will be used randomly. I am going to try to put the siding on at least one of the walls tonight. Thanks Randy
Here is the front side of the repair shed with all the boards it place. I am waiting for the glue to dry before I cut off the overhangs.
It looks like I got the board just above the left side of the door a little catawampus. I am not going back and try to fix it because I think it adds a little more interest to the wall above the door. The short boards down each side of the door now do not line up with each other. Again I think this adds interest to the wall. However, it will not make a whole lot of difference because these boards will be mostly covered by the open doors. Speaking of doors. I thought the heavy doors would have rubbed against the header above the door. So I went back and sanded the sharp edge off the header.
Thanks for looking and any suggestions or comments are welcomed. Randy