5050 Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 (edited) I've got two! Steam ones anyway, there's a diesel one on the back burner thanks (!) to Ruston. The Kingdom Kits one was a bit of a 'challenge' to say the least. The DJH was another of Ruston's which I converted to P4 but, owing to the way the drive train etc. is designed, the original chassis, gears etc. were kept and 'modfified/improved/messed about with' to fit P4. The 'big' Kingdom one. It has since been weathered (Ruston again!) and it had a good run-in on the test track at Scaleforum last year. With 108:1 gearing it took a while to complete a circuit. Name plates have now been attached better! The DJH. It has a DS10 motor as originally fitted and runs very well. I fitted some small AG wheels I had in stock so can't say if they are exactly correct or not! The correct buffer is now fitted. Size comparison. Quite a difference. There are threads covering both of these. Once I've found them I'll post links. EDIT -Kingdom Thread - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/106477-another-one-started-kingdom-kits-barclay-16/?hl=%2Bkingdom+%2Bkits DJH thread - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/119789-and-yet-another-barclay/?hl=%2Bkingdom+%2Bkits+%2Bbarclay&do=findComment&comment=2619327 Edited May 22, 2018 by 5050 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Isambarduk Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Here is my sole example of a Barclay, a fireless locomotive: My 7mm model includes a few of the castings from the Eric Underhill kit (now with ABS) but it is almost entirely scratch-built, including the footplate, cab buffers and buffer planks, steps, dome, exhaust, cylinders, valve gear and cab interior and other details. The wheels were cast in brass from my pattern and press-fitted with steel tyres for split-axle pickup. More information and images at: www.davidlosmith.co.uk/Andrew-Barclay-Fireless.htm David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Here is my sole example of a Barclay, a fireless locomotive: My 7mm model includes a few of the castings from the Eric Underhill kit (now with ABS) but it is almost entirely scratch-built, including the footplate, cab buffers and buffer planks, steps, dome, exhaust, cylinders, valve gear and cab interior and other details. The wheels were cast in brass from my pattern and press-fitted with steel tyres for split-axle pickup. More information and images at: www.davidlosmith.co.uk/Andrew-Barclay-Fireless.htm David Lovely! I would really like a similar one in 4mm but the Impetus kits are like the well-known rocking-horse poo and at silly prices. Perhaps a scratch build might be in order! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Isambarduk Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Lovely! I would really like a similar one in 4mm but the Impetus kits are like the well-known rocking-horse poo and at silly prices. Perhaps a scratch build might be in order! Thank you, 5050. A scratch-build would be quite straight forward, although it'll be a bit more taxing in 4mm scale, I would imagine (at least, it would be for me!). If there are 4mm kits for other Barclays, they might yield wheels, rods, buffers and such like, and the remainder would be relatively easy platework and fabrications that could be made from sheet and other stock material. The paperback book 'Fireless Locomotives (Locomotion Papers, number 97)' by Allan Baker and Allen Civil, The Oakwood Press, 1976 has a simple outline side and end elevation drawing, and several photos of Barclay fireless locos. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 (edited) Thank you, 5050. A scratch-build would be quite straight forward, although it'll be a bit more taxing in 4mm scale, I would imagine (at least, it would be for me!). If there are 4mm kits for other Barclays, they might yield wheels, rods, buffers and such like, and the remainder would be relatively easy platework and fabrications that could be made from sheet and other stock material. The paperback book 'Fireless Locomotives (Locomotion Papers, number 97)' by Allan Baker and Allen Civil, The Oakwood Press, 1976 has a simple outline side and end elevation drawing, and several photos of Barclay fireless locos. David A scratchbuild wouldn't be a problem for me (and I think I have the book somewhere!), it's the time, inclination and list of unfinished and 'still to do' projects that are the problem! Edited May 27, 2018 by 5050 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted May 28, 2018 Author Share Posted May 28, 2018 A scratchbuild wouldn't be a problem for me (and I think I have the book somewhere!), it's the time, inclination and list of unfinished and 'still to do' projects that are the problem! I also have a copy of the book so If you turn the domes and boilers, I'll make the frames and bodywork and we can have one each. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I also have a copy of the book so If you turn the domes and boilers, I'll make the frames and bodywork and we can have one each. Hmm, tempting at the very least. What about the boiler? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 Hmm, tempting at the very least. What about the boiler? Yeah, I know. It isn't a boiler. Turned end on some suitable pipe? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2018 Here is my sole example of a Barclay, a fireless locomotive: My 7mm model includes a few of the castings from the Eric Underhill kit (now with ABS) but it is almost entirely scratch-built, including the footplate, cab buffers and buffer planks, steps, dome, exhaust, cylinders, valve gear and cab interior and other details. The wheels were cast in brass from my pattern and press-fitted with steel tyres for split-axle pickup. More information and images at: www.davidlosmith.co.uk/Andrew-Barclay-Fireless.htm David A lovely model and very well built, but the paint finish and the lining in particular, is exquisite. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted June 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2018 (edited) Apart from the Hattons model, I have two Andrew Barclays of my own, plus another two that I have been entrusted to look after in the long term. This is my Mercian 14" example, in OO, as posed on 'Engine Wood', where it portrayed an NCB loco with running powers over BR from the nearby colliery. Here it is stabled in the goods yard, with a 45XX Prairie tank behind: Exiting Engine Wood Tunnel: (Photo courtesy BRM/Andy York) This is my High Level 0-6-0 example (P4), posed on my still-to-be-completed layout 'Callow Lane', where it will also portray an NCB loco with running powers over BR from the nearby colliery at Frog Lane, which I kept open instead of it closing in the early 1950s: This is a smaller (?12"?) example, which was scratchbuilt by Brian Clarke in the late 1970s and which he has entrusted into my long term care. It is OO, but unfortunately it never ran particularly well, as he used some Hornby 'Silver Seal' spoked wheels and added crankpins etc. I have it in mind to build a completely new chassis for it in P4, but not to change anything on the body (or the existing chassis). To that effect, I bought some Gibson Barclay wheels a while ago, but haven't done anything else as yet: Finally, this is another of Brian Clarke's creations, similarly in my care. This is his scratchbuilt Barclay-esque 0-4-0 diesel 'Buntie', which features his own turned wheels and runs very nicely. It is also OO and I have used it as an industrial/light railway loco on both 'Engine Wood' and 'Bleakhouse Road'. Here it is posed on the latter layout, where it has been used as motive power on the South Polden Light Railway: Edited June 4, 2018 by Captain Kernow 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 Your Barclays are all very nice, Cap'n but I especially like the little 12" one. You say you have some Gibson wheels for it - I didn't know that they do Barclay wheels that small. The 12" Barclay is another one on my list to scratchbuild and 3ft. 2in. Barclay wheels are a problem to overcome with this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2018 Your Barclays are all very nice, Cap'n but I especially like the little 12" one. You say you have some Gibson wheels for it - I didn't know that they do Barclay wheels that small. The 12" Barclay is another one on my list to scratchbuild and 3ft. 2in. Barclay wheels are a problem to overcome with this. Well, they were the smallest Barclay wheels that Alan Gibson did. As there is (I suspect) an element of artistic licence in the loco (as there is in 'Buntie'), I felt that this wouldn't be a huge issue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted June 5, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2018 Markits dp a 3' 2" Barclay 7 spoke wheel, this was made for our 01 kit and is an accurate representation of it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianblenk Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 DJH Barclay on Bridge of Alford. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 That photo should be in the "How Realistic are your Models?" Thread, or is it the "When the Real Thing looks like a Model" Thread.. 3 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1722 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 (edited) This little beauty arrived with me yesterday. Both a crew and Kadees will be fitted, ‘No. 10 Ayrshire Area’ will be removed and a light weathering needs to be done. Cracking little models. Edited June 17, 2018 by Chris 66522 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritishGypsum4 Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 Blowing the bit of dust off this thread. Does anyone know whether anyone did a kit in 7mm of the 10" Barclays? 6 exist to this day. I would dearly love to make a model of my own Barclay but I fear it might have to be a bit of a scratch build job to do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yarravalleymodeller Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, BritishGypsum4 said: Blowing the bit of dust off this thread. Does anyone know whether anyone did a kit in 7mm of the 10" Barclays? 6 exist to this day. I would dearly love to make a model of my own Barclay but I fear it might have to be a bit of a scratch build job to do it. Can't remember seeing a kit for the 10" in any scale other than a vague memory of something intended to look like one which fits a Hornby pug chassis In other news; This nasty thing(because let's be honest it's not accurate) has been coming together from the drawings in railway modeller. Only parts not cut, filed or bent into shape by me are the hand rail knobs. Check valves, injectors and sandbox filler caps have been made by attacking 14BA cheese head screws while they spin in the Dremel. Chimney, safety valve cover and cross heads will be lost wax cast with the equipment in my shed. Just need the will to finish it. Edited September 22, 2019 by Yarravalleymodeller More info 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritishGypsum4 Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 Thank you for the reply Yarravalleymodeller. I'm not surprised that there hasn't been a 10" done. Looks as if I am going down the scratch built route. That looks good progress. Is it a 4mm scale loco? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yarravalleymodeller Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, BritishGypsum4 said: Thank you for the reply Yarravalleymodeller. I'm not surprised that there hasn't been a 10" done. Looks as if I am going down the scratch built route. That looks good progress. Is it a 4mm scale loco? 7mm. There's also 10mm scale one in a similar state but having moved house its location is unknown for now. There's also a 2mm scale 3D printed body for the Alexandra docks railway 0-6-2 that Michael edge has posted about earlier in this thread, however this is in a box at my dad's house in the UK and I've not got him to post it to my in Australia yet. Maybe I'll pick it up and finish it if I ever go back to the UK. Some more photos of it in various states. Including the 3D printed wax for casting the chimney, I've since made a silicone mould from this so that I can inject wax into it and be able cast a few of them so I can build another few of the same loco one day for a layout I have in mind. Think I'd do some things a little different on future examples but I'm happy with it for now. Edited September 23, 2019 by Yarravalleymodeller More photos 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Moore Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 This is my Barclay, it's a djh kit my friend gave me for free & I built it to em gauge standards & sprayed it in a freelance livery. She works in the yards on my Salts Wharf layout very happily. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rope runner Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 (edited) A work in progress in 00 gauge And yours truly on the real thing for good measure Paul A. Edited January 19, 2020 by 1whitemoor 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 My other Hattons Barclay. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toplink@()1989))(( Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 And here's mine, scratch built in 7mm from the drawings in Railway Modeller from 1974. Took me absolutely ages to make and I used a lot of photos to get the details something like. It doesn't represent a specific loco, more a lash up of several different ones. It has DCC sound installed, and despite being 7mm it was still a to get everything inside! Cheers, Pete. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barclay Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Lovely work. Narrow Planet will do you a very nice 7mm replica of that plate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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