Saturday, December 06, 2008

4 Porter cabs


4 Porter cabs
Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker.
No, it's not a model railway version of the 12 days of Christmas, this is yesterday's model making output. 4 cabs for the batch of 0N30 Porter locomotives I'm currently working on.

I thought building these as a batch might speed matters up. It did but not by much. The gains come from having the tools to hand and knowing what to do rather than anything else. Perhaps 1 cabs worth of construction time might have been saved but certainly no more.

Some tasks certainly don't gain anything from repetition - that cab beading was a chore. Worth it though in the end though.

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