Buckets, what about them? Well they are surprisingly common and noticeable when you see them. For the steam era modeller they are often seen on a locomotive tender or hanging from a lamp iron. Sand buckets for fire fighting are seen around railway buildings, this useage carries on into the diesel era too.
There are a number of bucket models available particularly solid plastic or whitemetal, and in an early MRJ there was a how to on scratchbuilding them as well in 4mm scale. I wanted empty buckets as seen hanging off GWR Pannier lamp brackets in photos by the likes of Ben Ashworth. Some readers will know I sort of scattergun across modelling genres, and I found these etched gems the other day from Brengun, a Czech company who make some brilliant stuff for military modellers.
Having treated myself to a few sets, I set about putting a couple together and I’ll cover that in a day or so with some sequence snaps. Theres two types, parallel sided and truncated cone shapes. Having formed them I then soldered them for extra strength and because I needed the soldering practise, being a bit rusty. They do make a nice touch though adding that little bit of something even though its a bit of ‘ordinaryness’ that you’d not pay any attention to on a daily basis. Jim Smith-Wright captures this sort of thing very well in his New Street Project http://www.p4newstreet.com/11th-march-2011.html/tug-final which is well worth a look if you like ordinary rather than cliche in your modelling. Describing Jim’s stuff as ordinary sort of discredits it, it is in fact very fine modelling and observation of real life, elements of it capturing ‘nothing much at all’. That is in fact very difficult to achieve, try making nothing much at all, its really satisfying making ‘nothing’ and capturing peoples attention …
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Lots of goodies there-thanks for the link.