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Kit built Brighton 'K' Class mogul

Captain Kernow

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An elderly retired friend of mine here in the village has long wanted to have a layout based on the LBSCR in Sussex, with the option to run it in either SR or BR (S) periods. He's not yet in a position to put baseboards etc. up at home yet, but for some time he's been accumulating RTR locos and rolling stock. Two locos that he's always wanted, though, were a Brighton Atlantic ('Beachy Head') and a 'K' Class mogul, both of which have specific family associations for him in the past.

 

Of course, at the time, neither were available RTR, not even in terms of a planned future release (although the Atlantic has since been announced by Bachmann).

 

Consequently he has commissioned a friend of mine to build both for him from kits. I helped him source the kits and other bits, such as wheels, gears and motors, and we sent them off to be built.

 

I may have already posted a photo or two of the completed 'Beachy Head' on here, can't remember, but here's a view of the completed loco, which was to have been delivered to me at Scaleforum last September. As it turned out, I couldn't go for family reasons, but Re6/6 kindly brought it back to Devon and I immediately took it round to my friends house. The Bachmann one had only been announced about a month prior to that!

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The Atlantic was a DJH kit and was reportedly pretty straightforward to build. My friend was absolutely delighted with the result.

 

The ACE kit for the 'K' Class mogul was a different story, however. This was a 7mm kit reduced to 4mm, and the friend who built it said that it was an absolute pig to put together. Most of the parts didn't fit properly, and the kit hadn't really 'translated' down to 4mm well, including problems with fold lines not really working etc. In the end, many of the parts were so comprehensively fettled to get them to fit, that one might as well have scratchbuilt a lot of parts (which the builder said he found easier to do, in some situations). The build took quite a long time, as it was fitted in around other jobs and the builder found that after a certain amount of time he got so exasperated with the problems, that he put the job aside for a few days and did something else!

 

Eventually, however, the 'K' Class mogul was finished, and it was a real pleasure to travel up to Salisbury to rendezvous with my friend to pick the loco up. John F (Re6/6) also came along and we made a nice day out of it. Before I took the mogul round to my friends place in the village, I posed it on 'Callow Lane' and took a few photos:

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The deal is that I will add smokebox door number plates and coal in the tender, which will be done in due course. The locos will not be weathered, because my friend likes his engine pristine, which is his privilege.

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Andy Y

Have you struck a deal to pose it upon a certain viaduct? They're both rather beautiful.

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Captain Kernow
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Have you struck a deal to pose it upon a certain viaduct? They're both rather beautiful.

Well, it might be possible to pose it, but not to run it, because it's in OO (in the photos the opposite side wheel flanges are standing on a piece of card!)

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Buckjumper

Nice looking loco and a fantastic looking model. I understand the swine factor isn't solely the lot of the shot-down 4mm version and that the 7mm one has it's own set of challenges in the motion and requires significant butchery of the cylinders in order to get it to go round curves.

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Thanks for sharing these CK, brightened up my morning. The crisp build and finish on these is something special, the builder must be one of the very good ones. I understand your friend's delight with the Atlantic, really shows what the lined BR Black could do to a loco under the right conditions.

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