Sandy Harper Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 Today was a painting and varnishing day! Undercoat on the Class 20 body Black on Class 20 chassis/footplate Black and varnish on repaired Jinty cab that took a dive off a friends layout. Undercoat on a HR timber wagon. Varnish on a pair of HR Ballast Wagons Varnish on a Hudswell 0-6-0 diesel. Varnish on the A3 Regards Sandy 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Blandford1969 Posted February 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6, 2018 With appologies for the delay I have now quickly scanned the bits of the drawing. As I said they are not fully complete yet and there is still much to do. I hope they are useful. First the cab side on showing the reverser. This shows the cab side on, a vertical view of the cab and a view of the Scottish additional wind screens. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Harper Posted February 10, 2018 Author Share Posted February 10, 2018 A while ago I took on a JLTRT Class 20 build for a friend. Here is the latest update. The painting and detailing has been completed and just awaiting the arrival of the sound chip. She has just received her final coat of varnish and I now have to carefully remove the masking on the windows. Regards Sandy 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 ...…. and a beautiful job it was too. Thanks Sandy. PS I noticed your last "Bench" post on here was February 2018. Have I lost track of you or are you taking a break. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Harper Posted September 28, 2018 Author Share Posted September 28, 2018 ...…. and a beautiful job it was too. Thanks Sandy. PS I noticed your last "Bench" post on here was February 2018. Have I lost track of you or are you taking a break. No , still here beavering away at the modelling bench but nothing much of great interest that lends itself to a decent posting. Actually mostly repairs etc at the moment. One item of interest was a Crab that had a noisy motor and I was asked to fit a new one. Part of the history was that it had been used on a 24volt layout and someone had driven it rather hard and damaged the original motor so it had a 24volt motor fitted but then subsequently reverted back to 12 volt use.When I got it on the workbench I found that it had a pair of enormous resistors fitted in the tender!! It also had press-on cast wheels, so some brute force was required to get it all apart and then a lot of tweaking to get the quartering back to where it was originally. Anyway, it has now got a very quiet, ex-Ron Chaplin, motor gearbox from MSC fitted and on its way back to its owner. I should have a new build on the work bench soon so I will get posting now that the nights are drawing in! Regards Sandy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Good thanks Sandy I do like following your build/repairs etc so I'll be looking out for your new posts. Best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 So, what happened to the Stanier? Amazing parallels with 82004. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Harper Posted September 29, 2018 Author Share Posted September 29, 2018 So, what happened to the Stanier? Amazing parallels with 82004. Oops! forgot to post. Sandy 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 So, what happened to the Stanier? Amazing parallels with 82004. Oops! forgot to post. DSCN3854.JPG Sandy Very good. I will be happy if 82004 comes up that well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Harper Posted October 1, 2018 Author Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) A friend, who lives in the North of Scotland, has built a beautiful model of 'Findhorn' a small terminus serving a fishing village on the Moray Firth Coast. The line was built by local promoters to join up with the main line of the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway, as it became, at Kinloss near Forres. It was only 3 miles long and did not require much in the way of stock, which was fortunate, as money soon ran out and the directors were forced into buying something cheap to run their little enterprise.Neilson & Co of Glasgow offered them a contractors engine of a standard design. A very basic 0-4-0 with no cab at a price they could afford. It is thought that it was only tasked with pulling a wagon or two and an ex NBR brake van from the Junction to the village a couple of times a day.This first photograph shows it in fairly new condition on the branch. Later, when the Findhorn Railway was absorbed by the I&JRly, and by now the little engine was in need of some TLC, it was taken to Lochgorm in Inverness where Stroudley rebuilt it by removing the Gab gear and replacing it with Stevensons Link. He also increased the wheel base by moving the front axle forward by approximately a foot. Probably to try and improve the running. Eventually it was sold to a contractor building the Caithness Railway, which is when the second photograph was taken.My Friend asked me if I could scratch build him the rebuilt version.Apart from these two photographs there was a third, of an original contractors engine, taken showing the RH side which has proved useful. Note the rivet pattern on the tank and the lack of mudguards.There were some line drawings (sketches) done by modelers in the past but none of them quite matched the photographs and apart from some basic dimensions, wheel size and base quoted in books, it would need quite a bit of conjecture to draw it up to build a model. This was where a good friend who is a bit of a whizz on CAD came to my rescue. After many hours pouring over the pictures, and the available sketches, we managed to produce an etching tool.Here is the test etch being built. The original was built with a wooden chassis which is why we have designed the kit chassis as a box section.Sandy Edited October 1, 2018 by Sandy Harper 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 I would say it looks a nice little project but the pictures aren't showing for me for some reason. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Harper Posted October 1, 2018 Author Share Posted October 1, 2018 Anybody else not seeing the pictures? Sandy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ianmaccormac Posted October 1, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) I am not seeing the pictures using either Edge or Chrome on a Win10 laptop. Cheers Ian in Blackpool Edited October 1, 2018 by ianmaccormac Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Harper Posted October 1, 2018 Author Share Posted October 1, 2018 Can you see them now? Sandy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Yes I can sandy. Thanks. Very impressive, and a most unusual prototype. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) Some great work there Sandy and just by coincidence I was viewing this photo on an industrial site I follow. It's a Sentinel steam wagon conversion to a 2 ft gauge Mallet. I thought it looked a stunner too. Edited October 1, 2018 by Barnaby 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ianmaccormac Posted October 2, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 2, 2018 (edited) I too can see the lovely photos also! Nice going. Cheers Ian in Blackpool Edited October 2, 2018 by ianmaccormac Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 drawing of a neilson box tank i came across a few years ago Neilson tank.pdf 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Harper Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 drawing of a neilson box tank i came across a few years ago THanks for that. I did manage to obtain one from somewhere on the net and it proved quite useful in determining some key dimensions. Sandy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Harper Posted October 7, 2018 Author Share Posted October 7, 2018 The castings for the cylinders, slidebars and cross heads arrived a couple of days ago. Unfortunately we found that our design for the motion support bracket was way off the mark and needs to be redrawn. If fact the experience of building this test etch has thrown up a lot of anomalies and the drawing is being suitably amended as they are discovered. It is not unexpected as we are trying to produce a kit from 4 grainy photographs, three line drawings, of dodgy provenance, and a sketch by Ian Rice. I don't think we have done too bad for a first attempt! Sandy 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted October 8, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 8, 2018 That really does look great so far Sandy - I really do like box tanks and this has managed to capture their charm and quirkiness really well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Rude question: where does the motor go? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim.snowdon Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Sandy, Well done for getting this far, given the lack of available information. Two observations, though - this is the first time I have ever come across an instance where the connecting rod was behind the slidebars, ie offset from the crosshead. The accepted practice, more or less from the point at which Stephenson created the Rocket, was for the connecting rod and piston rod to be in line, as it avoids all sorts of mechanical issues. The real problem would appear to be that the slidebars are too long by a significant amount. Looking at your photographs, the rear ends of the bars, along with the support bracket, are roughly in line with, or even slightly ahead of, the edge of the wheel. The other is that , to look at, the slidebars themselves look to be far too heavy - more worthy of a Castle than an early 0-4-0. Even against the cylinders they look severely out of proportion. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted October 8, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 8, 2018 Looking at your photos of the original, the slidebars don't extend much past the leading wheel rim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikeyfaz Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Sandy Your first attempt looks far better already than my first attempt! Mike 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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