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Next projects: Modified Hornby E2 and Craftsman T1

pete_mcfarlane

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The J is done bar some touching up of the paint. When this is done I'll take some decent photos and upload them

 

I've (foolishly) decided to scratchbuild an LBSC I4 for the 2012 challenge. http://www.rmweb.co....-atlantic-tank/

 

This lead me to dig out my one and only previous attempt at scratchbuilding a loco chassis in 4mm scale. It's incomplete and has been lurking in my box of half finished projects for about 4 years. I had trouble finding a suitable motor and gearbox to fit, due my liking for flywheels and dislike of small open frame motors.

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I've decided to get it finished, before staring on the I4 chassis. After a couple of hours with the Branchlines motor and gearbox data sheet/price list I reckon one of their multiboxes will do, so one is on order.

 

The frames were drilled out using a hand held drill. Despite this it's far more free running than any of the kit chassis I've assembled.

 

The chassis goes under this, which is not for the faint hearted.

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A Hornby E2 body stretched to scale length. I've been working on this on and off for for far longer than the chassis - about 12 years. It made use of the Hornby bodies multi part construction - the boiler and footplate were cut in different places, glued back together with plasticard spacers and then carefully sanded to shape.

 

The tanks were extended with new sections at the front and the skirt under the boiler removed. The Hornby loco sits too high, with the drop in the frames increased - this was removed. The biggest remaining dimensional issue is the side tanks - they are 1mm too low. I'm still deciding what to do (if anything) about that. It needs a lot more work before it's finished.

 

The other loco project I'm now working on is a Craftsman ex-LSWR T1 0-4-4 tank. This is a bit out of place with the Kent/East Sussex locqtion of my planned layout (although they did work in to West Sussex on the Midhurst branch). I'm really building it as an introduction to etched loco kits, and also to practise my soldering in case I decide to go for a metal body on the I4.

 

So far so good - this is the result of an hour and half of soldering:

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i tried stretching the Hornby E2 many years ago but with the amount of cutting and filling i just gave up so good on you for this.

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Horsetan

Not sure which axle of the E2 chassis you intend to drive, but your spacer positions appear to favour only the leading axle (to the right of the picture?)....which may cause a problem if your boiler and smokebox don't have a gap underneath. Unless of course I've looked at your chassis the wrong way round in your photo?

 

I'd consider moving the spacers away from the centre (driving) axle, so that you have much more room for your chosen gearbox, and the sidetanks can then hide your preferred motor.

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pete_mcfarlane

The chassis is the wrong way round - I should have posted photos of the chassis and loco oriented the say way round. I've now managed to shoehorn a Mashima motor and Branchlines multibox in to the space.

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