Best way to make tarps

[zwilnik]

Thanks for all the replies

Will give a few of the suggestions a go over the weekend

Currently chomping my way through a pack of Tunnocks at the moment and will also try the Rizlers as well

Will post back with some results.

NGM

The Rizlers aren't as tasty I find.

[N_GaugeModeller]

Will have to get some Old Holborn to add some flavour 

NGM

[martyn]

Liquorice Rizlas?

Do they even still exist?



Martyn

[N_GaugeModeller]

Had a go with the Tunnock paper this morning

Quite please with the result so far.

NGM

[PLD]

How about these...

https://www.petersspares.com/smiths-smiths-tarpaulins-oo-n-smiths-tarpaulins-n-gauge.irc

Here are a couple of examples using the Smiths Tarps.




What is very often missing on models is the ropes to hold the tarp down, thin black thread was used on these.

[andy911john]

Tunnock paper - nice results NGM!
Not sure I can get that brand of confectionary over here - how would you describe it - is a foil or paper product?
Looks great - thinking of doing a few wagons in a rake but also maybe a plate or tube wagon in the diesel depot. 

[Newportnobby]

@andy911john
Tunnocks Caramel Wafers are wrapped in a foil/paper laminate
(I know - I used to sell it to them )

[Bad Raven]

I tried way back using various thin papers, tissues, etc, but they never looked right to me as the texture was too harsh.  I made quite a few out of a plastic shopping bag, first ones painted, but then found a black refuse sack did the job better and sprayed with matt black/weathered black with a full matt varnish top coat looked best my eyes.

[martyn]

Instructions on how to sheet wagons and fasten them, but no diagrams, can be found here;

http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/BRBDocuments/Booklet_BR20424_Issue.pdf

It's toward the end of the instructions, #145 onwards.

Note that sheets must be so secured so that they can't 'droop' and form puddles in the hollow; if the load is lower than the wagon sides, the sheet is to be secured within the wagon, rather like the Farish 'sheeted loads'.

Martyn

[Bad Raven]

Note that sheets must be so secured so that they can't 'droop' and form puddles in the hollow.

Except of course when they are not!

Edit: Added:-  Read 128 Page 30.

Also not unknown in the late 30's and beyond to see leaky vans with tarped over roof.

[martyn]

I was also reading #150; it seems that a 'low' load was to be sheeted twice, once inside the wagon which is tucked within the wagon; and then a second sheet over the top, which-if a 'sheet supporter' was not available-went over the wagon edges.

Or at least that's how it reads to me.......

The sheet over a leaky van roof seems to be quite often modelled-I've done one.

Martyn

[Bad Raven]

I guess the normal takes place, what starts as a rule deteriorates into an aspiration rarely met! 

[Les1952]

I have a rake of 5 plank wagons running on Croft Spa (and formerly on Hawthorn Dene) which my son (aka Mr Simon) fitted with Smiths tarpaulins some time ago.  This is a Southbound limetrain.

Recently our club layout "Rise Park" has had to be sold on due to our being given 2 months notice in lockdown to quit the clubroom so a housing developer could demolish it.  This made redundant the late Trevor Webster's set of fifty Peco 5-plank wagons which ran as two trains of 25, full and empty ironstone.

As Trevor never numbered or lettered them I've been doing some off and on and am making a rake of twelve or so of the empties to run as the return train to my sheeted opens running South.  Each of them would therefore be running with its tarpaulin folded inside on the floor.  Two are shown below, posed on the wrong layout.

Smith's tarpaulins, folded and stuck down, but as they are vastly overscale thickness each has been cut in half- almost enough in one pack to do all 25 empties.

Les