RENA 1900

More buildings

2011-11-16T19:59:00.000+01:00

It has been a long time since last posting.
I have, when time permits me, worked out dawings for the group of houses on this picture
(photo Thor Bjerke)
It is a house originally built for four lenghtsmen (=line inspectors, see earlier posting of the plan) with their families and with a shed and a cow barn (left). The cow barn was on the heritage list, but a few years back all three houses were demolished. The lenghtsmens house is built of machined wood log and after some decades, hevily rebuilt and covered with plastering on the facades. Typical for some houses in the area, but still unusual onto logs.

I found this drawing in the archives of ROM Eiendom (former part of NSB), and from the railway museum this photo from the station Rasta further up the line:

It shows the building plastered and with built-in staircases. Originally the staircases were to my opinion open like in my reconstruction:

Next task is to decide on how to build the model. Lasercut card will have problems to define the corners properly. Maybe a thin etch (0.1mm or 0.15mm) overlay over plasticard?. A bit of wood grain can be scraped into the surface with a stiff steel brush after etching, (maybe). Or handmade in plasticard. Difficult corners again. Same with wood/veneer. Like to hear comments on this. Windows, doors and railings is best etched or lasered.

Oh, ...Yes there are dragonheads topping the apex

What´s up?

2011-01-08T20:49:00.000+01:00

Happy new year to all!

After I returned back home from Oxford, everyday life has taken all my time. But during the Christmas holidays I found time to test my new etching unit. After some trials with exposuretime, temperatures etc. I got results that looks promising for some goods wagons and parts for the loco. But there are a need to redesign a lot to get more buildfriendly parts. I will tell more when I have experience from next trial etches.

The Rena section has a small wood with some of the pinetrees I have explained about in earlier posts. The newly added Norway spruce on the left in the picture is a result of my experiments with etched branches last week

Epilog-Back home

2010-07-10T14:55:00.020+02:00

Well back home and ready for taking the models back into our house. It is friday morning, a hot nice summerday in Oslo

We have a long stairway on the outside of our house leading to my little workshop/office. Here something happened:

A worktrain has appeared by the snowshed!

But where is the snowshed? Hey! look down! Its in the river!

And the pine also!

This is dramatic! Good thing its summer, though.

And all those columns in the river! Can it be saved?

Yes, but it will take time to fix all this mess. Good thing the roof seems intact. We`ll make it.

And Gulliver says: and all this because I stumbled in the stair! I was dreaming of the expo instead of looking out for the last step. Silly me!

In Oxford at last

2010-07-10T14:00:00.015+02:00

We made it to Oxford and it was a splendid exhibition. My wife AAsne helped me to exhibit Rena 1900 and snowshed Setesdalsbanen. It was a pity that we could not have any trains moving, but the rolling stock we exhibited is owned by Stein Ragnar Pünther. He built it on Märklin chassis about 20 years ago. It worked then, but Stein has taken a pause from model railways for a while and I have no rights to change his models. In the near future i will go on to make my own locos and wagons. Ill tell you about my results as I go.

We met so many nice people both in the 2mm SA and as public. And we studied so many top quality models. Some very big and very impressing, like Cpoenhagen Fields and some very small like the very cute little oval shaped Golden Jubilee Layout Competition winner Framsden, by David Eveleigh.

I wish I could get more scandinavian N scale modellers interested in finescale. It was nice to meet Kirby from Finland and a young danish N finescale modeller.

We were very well velcomed by the chairmann of the 2mmSA, Nigel Cliffe, thank you, Nigel.

I took some pictures of Rena 1900 at the show:

Oops--one week to goooo....

2010-06-21T10:46:00.018+02:00

Time goes fast. After various trouble with making perfect transparens for my artwork for etcing, I realised I had to delay the work with the rolling stock. (design and artwork is ready for etcing of five different small wagons and one loco type IV). I have to rely on the old models on loan from my friend Stein Ragnar Pünther. He made around 1990 three small ng locos based on Norwegian and swedish types. Also he made some goods wagons. All based on Märklin chassis. However these locos are in nonworking condition so it seems I end up with a static diorama.

I now concentrate on making a shorter version of Rena for the 2mm celebration including the stationbuilding with trainshed , two tracks and two points. I try to make a nice setting around it with trees and fields. Later I will expand to the original plan.

So The last few weeks I have concentrated on the trainshed and track ballasting. Connecting the trainshed with the stationbuilding will be a very delicate wooden platform.

Here is the results so far:

Since I now use only half the space I asked for , I may (if permitted)bring another little diorama based on a snowshed from Setesdalsbanen, a preserved 1067 line in the south of Norway

This will be connected later to the Rena 1900 diorama.

2010-05-31T11:50:00.003+02:00

Here is an almost complete station building. From my drawings (autocad) Klaus Maser (Mago) , a finescale Fremo member, has lasered the parts in carton. This was a very interesting experience and Klaus did a fine job with his laser. But still it took me about 40 hours to complete the model. I use 3M Spray Mount to laminate the walls etc. This gives a very fine spray and it is repositionable for some time. I also use Cyanoacrylate for stiffening small parts and for small touch up repair. For more control with positioning small parts, white glue is best.

2010-05-31T11:48:00.001+02:00

Here is a detail of the walls with curtains in the windows and the stationmasters daughter looking at the action at the platform. The windows lack some details to be etched.

Type IV construction started.

2010-04-09T08:54:00.004+02:00

While waiting for Gunnar to mill the frames, I have commenced making the boiler, doom and stack. I use my old Unimat 3. The wheels are 2MMSA 7mm spoked bogie/tender wheels. The black rods are tiny drillbits holding the parts for the photo

2010-03-25T20:59:00.005+01:00

Focus now is on the locomotive, the NSB type IV. Here is some sketchup views of the chassis with a 5mm motor and gears M02

2010-03-25T18:11:00.005+01:00

At home the five turnouts are now almost ready for installation. Note the V point is sharp and not rounded down. This is thanks to an idea from Geoff Jones in the 2MMSA mag. some years ago.

2010-03-25T18:08:00.003+01:00

Here the same tree viewed from below as if you are standing under it looking up

2010-03-25T17:51:00.003+01:00

Here is one mature pinetree so typical in the woods around Rena. My fingers show the size (4 inch
tall)

2010-03-25T17:48:00.002+01:00

Here is my production from a long weekend in the woods in Nordmarka north of Oslo

Trees, trees ,trees

2010-03-25T16:46:00.004+01:00

Sometimes I go skiing in the winter. When I sit by the fire in the evening away from the home workshop, I bring with me some stripped thin copper wires from electric cords. Some ideas like using loops, I picked up from the 2MMSA magazine aug. 1994 and april 1995. A splendid idea from Mr. David C. Scott. Here is some samples of pine trees for Rena 1900

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Front view of diorama Rena 1900

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This is one of the turnouts

gauge 6.65mm code 24

2009-07-24T12:22:00.000+02:00

Hi all,

This is a sample of my code 24 rail for the Rena 1900 GJLC