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Bury goods, part the fifth.

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For some time now I have been working on a 0-4-0 Bury goods locomotive in 4mm scale for my EM gauge London & Birmingham Railway project. 

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Today I managed to apply the black undercoat and try a loose assembly. Although these engines were green (like the wheels) I have to admit it looks quite fetching in black.

 

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The model is built entirely from scratch, powered by a Portescap motor inside the boiler through a scratch built gearbox. The wheels are cast from 3D printed masters and the round bits lathe turned from brass and copper. It will at some point be joined by a couple of 2-2-0 passenger engines. There is still much to be done, and the tender is almost complete too but progress is very slow so the next update might be a while yet. Given that it’s only the size of my thumb it’s mighty fiddly!

 

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Happy Christmas!

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Mikkel
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Indeed, it is excellent. And lots of "bling"! I see what you mean about the black undercoat, it really is quite elegant. 

 

Happy christmas Chris, and thanks for another year of your Victorian marvels.

 

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Thanks Dave John and Mikkel. I hope you have a great Christmas with at least a bit of time for modelling in between all the festivities!

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Craigw

That looks absolutely superb. I model the 1920s, but this is the sort of thing that makes my heartbeat faster!

 

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Craig W

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Ruston

This is superb! I don't see any pickups though and I can see that it's going to be very difficult to fit them to such open bar frames. Or are they going on the tender only?

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On 29/12/2022 at 18:26, Ruston said:

This is superb! I don't see any pickups though and I can see that it's going to be very difficult to fit them to such open bar frames. Or are they going on the tender only?

Sorry bit slow to reply. Thank you. No pick-ups in those pics but I’ve since fitted very discreet ones. Tender will have pick-ups on the rear wheels.

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