A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Brass Mudguards
Back on the Thornycroft lorry, I have been looking at prototype pictures.
They tell me two things - the first is that this is probably too old-fashioned for the era I'm using it in. Tough. Old vehicles hung around in pre-MOT days and anyway, modifying the cab to modernise it is more work than I wish to do.
The second is that the back wheels should have mudguards.
Looking around through my stash of metal bits I found a length of scrap etched brass that appeared to be just the right width. Bending lengths around a pen barrel that is slightly smaller than the wheel and then un-bending the part a little did the job. A slight flare at the back was in order according to the pictures.
Fixing in place is with a blob of solder at the front, a blob of solder with some brass angle in it at the back. Low-melt solder is good stuff for this, it cools slowly so with a bit of practise you can tease it to cross gaps to do this sort of bodge.
There are, or were, quite a few heavy vehicles exempt from testing but I suspect the best scenario for one of this vintage surviving for any length of time would be its use as an internal works vehicle of some sort
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