Brian Daniels 7mm Diesels
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Brian's 7mm Workbench JLTRT Class 26
by brian daniels
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??? posted on Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:53 pm
Think you got the reason, 31 just not powerfull enough 
Looks like we will have to have a meaningfull discusion at Telford then 
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Comment posted by Ressaldar on Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:22 am
Hi Brian,
just been catching up with postings after a few days in Oxford.
Great train, shame that you went off of the SR green though!! would have been better with some heavy weathering.
regards
Mike
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??? posted on Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:53 pm
I have finished building my 5 JLTRT Presflo's so I took a couple of pics of them under my US grain terminal. Well it's the closest I can get to a cement terminal. Then I started the weathering process. I sprayed them in satin varnish and sprinkled cement powder over them. Then more varnish to seal it. Still a bit more to do on them but it's a start. Do I keep one ex works? I see I need a bit more cement on the end of one them.
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Comment posted by lancer1027 on Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:57 am
Very impressive Brian 
Rob
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Comment posted by Trainshed Terry on Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:52 pm
I do hope that you will be leaving one in ex-works condition.
Great work. 
Terry.
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Comment posted by dikitriki on Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:28 pm
Hi Brian
Presflos are superb.
Is it possible to complete the wagon before painting? Or better to follow the guidance in the instructions and paint as you go along? I'm trying to get my head round how far you can go before you have to start painting.
Regards
Richard
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??? posted on Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:01 pm
Richard, I built these in 2 parts, the hopper and the chassis separate. It all holds together nicely as you build up the underframe just remember not to pick it up just by the hopper. I attached the end supports and vac cylinders and end ladder on the hopper then sprayed the lot bauxite then brushed the bottom of the hopper black. I built all the chassis up and sprayed black then a little masking to spray the top and bufferbeam bauxite. When your done superglue the 2 halfs together. It worked for me, 5 times
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??? posted on Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:00 pm
Added a bit of brake dusting on the bottom of these now and some oily paint around the brake gear and buffer heads. I am afraid the clean one has a little weathering on it.
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??? posted on Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:55 pm
Got hold of a JLTRT 26 kit at Telford which some of you may have seen me trying to build on the JLTRT stand. Unfortunately having only picked it up half an hour before the show opened I was a bit limited as to what I could do until after I had drilled a few holes here and there on Saturday night. Anyway here are some pics of it nearing completion. I still need a few castings to finish it.
This is the third time I have tried to put this thread on here 
So I will only put one pic up for now.
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Comment posted by Ressaldar on Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:12 pm
Hi Brian,
does this mean that the 33 is not far off - the Guildford Group's Reading Trade show perhaps?
regards
Mike
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??? posted on Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:36 pm
I don't know Mike but Pete did say he hopes the 27 should be done for Warley.
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Comment posted by Ressaldar on Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:23 am
Hi Brian,
time for me to source a suitable 'anti-vapour' mask then!
regards
Mike
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Comment posted by PCM on Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:06 am
Hi Brian,
The class 26 looks bloody superb, Do you think it measures up alright 
I am planning to do a Lima 33 to 27 conversion using a Nigel Stanley kit, and although from pics I have seen it builds up into a nice model, I was wondering how wide is your 26 As the old lima model is a bit wide. I am toying with the idea of cutting the body down the middle and making it the right width, but if it's only out by a little bit I might save myself some work. 
Many thanks Peter,
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Comment posted by Simon Moore on Moore</STRONG> on Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:13 am
Great work as always Brian these kits really keep tempting me in to O gauge. The 26 looks amazing what livery are you going to be doing it in br blue??
Simon.
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Comment posted by Grimleygrid on Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:41 am
Wow that 26 really does look superb, I look forward to seeing it painted and weathered.
If only JLTRT would do a 56 or 60!
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Comment posted by DavidB on Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:47 am
That's one beautiful McRat Brian - and one of IS's finest too . Can't wait to see it multi-ed with your IS 24. Those Highland 26s had a real charisma about them - for this Oxfordshire boy, there was nothing to beat turning up on the sleeper at Inverness to find baby Sulzers burbling away in the Far North platforms as the Scottish rain dripped down endlessly. Wonderful - I'm seriously going to have to start saving for one of these kits.
David
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Comment posted by F-UnitMad on Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:34 pm
Is there any other livery...?!?! 
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??? posted on Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:39 pm
This 26 is going to be blue 26022 as I had a bit of a problem with my headlights. I was going to do 26032 that has wider headlights than most. So I drilled the lights in the ends and looked at pics of 26032 again and realized it had wide lights at one end and standard width lights at the other 
Looking through more pics I found 26022 had wide ones at both ends, phew Only trouble is that 022 has it's centre headcode discs in the centre line and not to the left like the kit came. So I had to move them over and fill the holes. It's going to be a few weeks until I get the bits to finish it unfortunatly. By the way there are some etch covers to go over the cantrail grills that I will glue on after it's been painted and weathered behind the grills. I have ordered some class 26 data panel from Precission Labels together with the lettering that St Rollox put next to the fire pulls on the body side. This will be fitted with a sound chip and working headlights!
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Comment posted by alcazar on Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:07 pm
That photo of the 26 showing the lights is interesting. They are Lucas 7" lights, the one one the right as we look at it looks like the LR700 driving light, and the one on the left looks like a foglight 
Those LR700's were like gold dust in my rallying days.
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Comment posted by Ian G on Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:34 pm
thats looking good Brian.
ian G
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??? posted on Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:49 am
Well I have'nt done too much to the 26 of late as I am waiting for some castings to finish it off still. I did get some from JLTRT recently though. I asked for a pipe casting from their peak kit to go in between the boiler and fuel tanks. Fills the hole up there a bit. I have added the bogie brake pipes on the side of the bogies. A couple of people have asked about the lights I will use so here are a couple of pics of it lit up. I use small grain of rice 16v bulbs from Miniatronics which are a US firm. I mount them in ally tube, poking the bulbs in from the cab insides. The wires will be sent across the floor and through a hole in the bottom of the rear bulkhead. You can't see them in normal viewing angles. I have got another set of snow ploughs now to do the other end at last. I do keep looking at it and thinking what else I could add but I think it's about there, apart from the extra castings I am waiting for.
I have added a couple of pics of the extra bits in the kit to do the air tanks and the bolster castings for a 26/0.
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Comment posted by alcazar on Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:43 pm
Brian: you seem to prefer bulbs to LEDs, can you say why? Is it a colour thing? I'd have thought that LEDs would have been the modeller's choice due to longevity, low heat output and low current draw?
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??? posted on Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:18 pm
I like them mainly for the correct colour they give out. Current draw has never been an issue in O Gauge and niether is longevity as I have never blown one, yet! The only thing against them is heat which is why I use the 16v Miniatronics bulds. On 12v they won't get as hot. I have not had a meltdown yet. I don't leave locos with the lights on very long though.
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Comment posted by Bob-65B on Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:50 pm
That's looking the business Brian! - What did you use for the headlights? (for the headlight shell) I have just the application 
Bob.
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Comment posted by lancer1027 on Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:00 am
Great work Brian. I do like it
Rob
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