Camberwick Green and Trumpton

[KevinD]

Neat discovery. I look forward to seeing your biscuit lorry!

 

[DorsetDave]

Neat discovery. I look forward to seeing your biscuit lorry!

Thank you Kevin, I'll add it to the list. I'm currently working on the steam engine: 1804 steam loco - the first time I've assembled an Airfix kit in well over 40 years. Having to add a steering wheel to a locomotive to be screen accurate just seems plain wrong. Lol!

 

[DorsetDave]

new prop alert
i’m not completely sure on this one, but it seems quite plausible.
i’ve come to the conclusion that the miniature steam engine, seen in the last episode of chigley, is the trevithick locomotive kit produced by airfix in 1968! it lines up perfectly both appearance and date-wise

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I'm certain that you are right about the Airfix steam engine kit. It looks like the model they used was pretty much standard build except for the colour scheme, the 'starter wheel' was re-purposed as a steering wheel and the very thin 'valve arms' and 'pre-heater' pipes were omitted. The newer A058071 1804 Steam Loco kits have all the parts needed although one of the long connecting rods has an extra hole for mounting a handle to turn the wheels since the motor was no longer included. My attempt to re-create the model in the Chigley guise except I fitted the two pre-heater pipes by mistake.

 

[DorsetDave]

Dimensions for anyone who might be interested in 3D printing any of the following Rosedale wheels,

Larger wheel: e.g. Cresswell's Biscuit lorry
Outer dia. 58.7mm
Rim dia. 34.4mm
Width 15.4mm
Distance between inner wheel faces 85mm
Axle dia. 1/8"

Small wheel: e.g. Thomas Tripp's milk float
Outer dia. 41.5mm
Rim dia. 25.5mm
Width 11.0mm
Distance between inner wheel faces 63mm
Axle dia. 3.0mm

(all dims are approx.)

 

[DorsetDave]

A rather tired looking Tudor Rose Heavy Duty tractor given a respray and an attempt at re-creating the missing parts.

 

[KevinD]

That's nice. You're going to need a barn to park it in!

 

[DorsetDave]

That's nice. You're going to need a barn to park it in!

Now there's an idea... Fortunately Mr Crockett said he'll look after it for now.

 

[joberg]

Very nice tractor indeed!!

 

[DorsetDave]

KevinD, I think you were very lucky finding Farmer Bell's fork lift truck. I've pretty much given up hope of unearthing one now so I've started creating a (hopefully) close approximation based on a combination of the Robert Harrop model and screen grabs etc. Here's the progress so far of the 3-D model, I will definitely have to invest in some yellow and orange filament. I have scaled it to 100 mm mudguard to mudguard as per your previous comment.

 

[KevinD]

That looks excellent. Yep, it took me well over a year of looking to get the forklift. It's funny what remains common and what doesn't from those days.

 

[DorsetDave]

That looks excellent. Yep, it took me well over a year of looking to get the forklift. It's funny what remains common and what doesn't from those days.

Thank you for you kind comment KevinD. Yes, it certainly seems very pot luck as to what Tudor Rose products can still be found, there is no end of Willys Jeeps and double decker buses!

I'm amazed that the original fork lift model seems to use a slotted plastic belt to raise and lower the forks reliably. I was thinking I might see if I can find a toothed rubber belt to achieve the same end. The model must have been quite heavy to be able to lift a variety of objects without tipping forward. KevinD, if you have time, could you tell me the external width across the forks as this will dictate the size of the pallets I hope to make. Currently on my model they are around 63mm.

 

[KevinD]

Surprisingly the model is not that heavy. Possibly they fixed it in place? The forks on mine turn slightly towards each other (and they have a slight pont at the end) but mostly the dimension you are after is 58mm.

 

[DorsetDave]

Surprisingly the model is not that heavy. Possibly they fixed it in place? The forks on mine turn slightly towards each other (and they have a slight pont at the end) but mostly the dimension you are after is 58mm.

Yes they probably fixed it down then. It amuses me to see the vehicles being jostled about now and again when they were supposedly stationary as a result of the animators knocking them during filming. Also seeing small bits of black cotton appear tied to things to act as a support.

Thank you for the dimension I asked for; I'll have to scale down the front fork assembly a tad.

 

[DorsetDave]

I think this is about as close as I'm going to get without sight of the real thing... Thanks KevinD for all your assistance.

 

[KevinD]

That looks spot on. Well done!

 

[joberg]

^^
What he said exactly

 

[DorsetDave]

Anyone seen Mr. Varley?

 

[KevinD]

Have you totally created that or did you source the toy motorbike?

 

[LeoCor Replicas]

Somewhat tangentially related, I've been meaning to make the 'Life on Mars' Camberwick Green models from the hallucination sequence in a series 2 episode.

 

[DorsetDave]

Have you totally created that or did you source the toy motorbike?

I'd like to say I created the toy motorbike from scratch, but I sourced a dark blue and white one on an auction website. I designed the 3-D sidecar and wheel that attaches to the footrest. It wasn't until I started putting it all together that I discovered that there were two versions of the motorcycle manufactured, one with and extra pair of small wheels attached to a flywheel and one without; the mouldings are slightly different between them. The version used in the programme didn't have the extra wheels but unfortunately the version I bought did.