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A CR 323 class part 5 , some details


Dave John

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Just a short blog, with the site being slow atm.

 

I have made and added some detail, all made up from various bits of brass and wire. The smokebox door is technically a GWR one, but it is the right size and shape. If you don’t tell Mr Drummond then I won’t.

 

 

A couple of pics all fastened together and wired up.

 

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Runs pretty smoothly so I think it is time for a spot of primer.

 

 

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Looking very smart. I did just have to go back and look at the prototype photo in Part 1 before asking if the firebox sides need a bit of tweaking into the correct profile? The lower part seems to have been vertical.

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That looks really good and you've captured the complex shapes of the real thing well. It must have been a swine to build!

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I think there was a bit of extra plate where the firebox cladding meets the footplate compound. I will add some. 

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Very nice - a lot of  cutting and forming there so quite a challellenge.  Those small engines have a lot of character: it shares some characteristics with the GWR small tank engines of that period which are more familiar to me and it certainly looks the part at Kelvinbank.

 

Kit PW

 

 

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Thanks kitpw. 

 

Although the shapes look complex they are not so bad when you break them down into simple curves. The silhouette is a great help. Import a scaled image into the software and then use the drawing tools to create a template. Once cut out glue it to a a couple of bits of brass tack soldered together, then cut round it. 

 

I rarely use low melt solders, most of that is just standard 60/40 and a hot iron. 

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Hi,

cracking looking model!  I was wondering, when you get 'round to adding coal to the bunker, will you be doing it like the photo of 399 in Caledonian Railway Locomotives The Classic Years?😁

 

Roja

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Cheers 37Oban, it is a good picture, turns up in several books. I probably won't stack it that high, since I have fitted the T stanchions in the rear of the bunker. I do like the bucket hanging from the rear coupling in that pic, though on a model it would get in the way of the aj.

 

It is now at the painting and lining stage but I do tend to be slow at that . 

 

 

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I wouldn't model it stacked like that, get too many comments from the know it all brigade!  It makes you wonder why it was stacked like that?  Personally I feel it was done just for the photograph or some special event.  I can't imagine it being stacked like that for regular duties, and I don't think it would last looking as neat after a shunt or two!

 

I can't wait to see the completed model.  I'm currently building some CR stock in EM on the cheap.  Currently have 2 old DJH and 1 Finecast kit in various stages of build, have modified and repainted a couple of rakes of coaches and about a dozen of items of goods stock, also in various stages of construction.  I'm having fun scratch-building springs and axle boxes!  Or maybe fun is not the word!  I really must photograph and post them one day!  They are not up to your standard, but they look the part.  

 

Roja

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Well, as built the tank was 1000 gal and the bunker nominally 2 1/4 tons . That seems a bit low on coal capacity. In later years many did get bunker extension rails, some improvised at a local level. 

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