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Little Shunters Second Scratch Build   What did I learn from my first scratch build 🤓 Body frame was not square Tanks supports were inconsistent  Styrene welding was poor Styrene cuts not square Superglue and thin styrene don't like each other Thin styrene is going to warp Taking these above lessons learnt into consideration, my goal was to improve the quality of the next model. Jig 2.0 I popped down to Bunnings and bought some dressed pine and balsa wood and decided to come up with an idea of reusing the length but committed to a standard width for my scratch built rollingstock, plus added a working space as my last build I kept losing my styrene pieces on the floor. I also decided to cut an aluminum key for the coupler sections which was a guess as I had not bought any couplers at this stage. Model Output and learnings Using my lessons learnt above, things were improving, this styrene build was stronger, like it was one piece, so that was a positive. It started to look a l...

Little Shunters First Scratch Build Being a generation X kid, I have had to work across Imperial and Metric all my life and got into trouble enough times either passing the wrong socket or wrench over.  I decided to create a excel spreadsheet where I could simply enter the real-world sizes into the calculator and through the magic of excel formulas everything would calculate into the right HO size for both measurement systems.  Armed with the knowledge from my previous post  Where do I go now?  and  how to cut and use styrene  I got to work  measuring three times and cutting once. All of a sudden, I had a heap of styrene bits all over the desk and so back to measuring again to recheck, we will call this rookie mistake number one . After I sorted out all my styrene into groups, I got to welding each piece together, now this where old school modelers can have a laugh as my pieces started to fall over and break apart, w elding the styrene turned into an e...