Scratchbuilding a HO Hayes Bumper

[torikoos]

The hardest thing I can see about building these bumpers is getting the compound angles of the main beams right, especially for when Koos is working away from home.

Mark

Yup, that sort of thing is the hardest to do. I'll be doing a lot of trial and error, carefully sanding/filing the beams to an acceptable angle.
Particularly if you're working on hotel room desks, do not have any vise or similar in tow, although I will get a better suction cup type at some point.
All I've got normally is CA glue, X-acto knife, steel ruler, cutting mat, some tweezers, Atlas track saw, a few miniature files, and some sand paper. What I take depends on the project I have tagging along, but these are 'always' there (except this time, I had to leave last minute, and am not carrying anything..... :cry: :cry: :cry:

Koos