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Keyser Kits Hudswell Clarke Pt. IV

The carrier for the crown wheel is done. The wheel is fixed to the carrier by 2-part epoxy glue and the carrier has been drilled and tapped to take a 14BA grub screw, with a flat milled on the axle.The set up has been tested by sticking the two wires onto a controller and it is amazingly smooth. I have also started to assemble the cylinders, slidebars etc.

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Keyser Kits Hudswell Clarke Pt.III

The main frames are ready for the Fitting Shop. The kit frames are crude, to say the least. The front area of the kit frames consisted of two pieces of cast whitemetal with slots to take the cylinders; a quite ridiculous design, especially when the rest has been made from milled brass. My replacement version is full-length, of course, and has locating holes for seperate cylinders, with slots to locate the motion bracket, all of which will be made from scratch.   I am not going with

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Keyser Kits Hudswell Clarke Pt.II

I have done a little more on the bodywork - handrail added but I have used proper brass knobs and .45mm brass wire rather than the oversize plastic knobs and coil of steel wire provided. As predicted, the pipework was destroyed in attempting to remove it from the shrink-wrap, so I have made my own from copper wire, bits of brass tubing and an etched brass wheel. I have also made rims for the spectacles on the weatherboard. The holes in the weatherboard are rather large and my thick plasticard ri

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Ruston in Build

Keyser Kits Hudswell Clarke

I've had this one since December last year when I took in part-exchange for a draughtsman's drawing board that I obtained for a bargain price. I had ideas of producing drawings for making patterns for profile-milling but, as it turned out, the board was rather large and the stand was solid cast iron and almost killed me getting it into the back of the van. I knew I didn't have enough room in the house to permanently keep the board indoors and the idea was to keep it in the garage and move in onl

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Ruston in Build

Ruston 48DS - Gauge 3 commission

I have buil models of the Ruston & Hornsby 48DS type in 2mm,4mm, 7mm, Gauge One and now Gauge 3. This is my first build of anything in this scale and it's hard work. The nickel silver sheet that the frames and brake components are made from is so thick and hard that I have had to abandon the usual methods of removing parts from the frets and resort to a hammer and chisel!   It will be driven by a large Mashima motor/Slaters gearbox that is usually fitted into large mainline type locos in O

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Tractor/loader conversion

I have been asked to build a tractor/loader, as per the one I built for Royd Hall. After having the base tractor since the GOG Telford show, last year, I have finally got my finger out and finished it. The whole job was to weather the tractor and to construct and fit and weather the loader.   Instead of the cast iron (turned brass) wheel ballast weights that I fitted to my own version, the owner wanted a (water or concrete-filled) oil drum on the three-point linkage at the rear. All built an

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Ruston

In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth...

At least it looks like it could be from that far back. It's certainly ancient and it's difficult to believe that modellers had to put up with this sort of thing in the dim and distant.   This Great Eastern Neilson saddletank was given to me earlier this week. There is also a complete unbuilt kit which, if anything, is even worse. The frames on the unbuilt kit are a single-piece whitemetal casting! The half-built model and the kit are by some outfit called Nu Cast.   The model is actually ve

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Messing about with decal paper

The Black Hawthorn, the Manning Wardle and the next couple of personal projects in the pipeline are intended to go on my yet-to-be-built late Victorian/Edwardian light railway/ mineral railway. One difficulty with fictitious industrial locations set in the times of private owner wagons is that your fictitious company can't really use RTR wagons in the liveries of real companies, so I have had a go at making my own liveries using decal paper.   I bought some cheap second hand Hornby wagons to t

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Ruston

4mm Black Hawthorn Pt. 3

I have jumped forward massively and have finished it. 5050 pressed the wheels on for me on Wednesday (thanks, Paul). I was going to post a photo of the chassis but flat batteries on my camera, and RMweb being down on Wedneday meant that I didn't and just got on with it.   I have finished it with minmal weathering - just some metalcote and a bit of rust weathering powders on the cab steps and some coal dust on the footplate and around the coal bunkers. The buffing faces have been weathered the

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4mm Black Hawthorn Pt. 2

The cab is now on, as are all fittings, pipes and castings plus the home-made block buffers. Getting sufficient weight into something this small is always a challenge and so far only the smokebox and bunkers have been filled with lead. To enable more weight to be added in the boiler space I am swapping the provided 10/24 motor for a 10/20.

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4mm Black Hawthorn

One of my own projects, for my next layout.   It is the High Level kit of a Black Hawthorn 0-4-0ST. I got the bulk of the bodywork done, yesterday, but that's always the easy part, isn't it? This kit is based on Wellington (former Holwell No.3) I am going to fit disc wheels, as on Bauxite No.2, in the NRM. Although Bauxite appears to be a slightly smaller loco I just like to be different. It will also have block buffers as these will be neccesary on the new layout, where rolling stock will be

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Gauge One 48DS

Another comission build. This is the first time I have ever built anything in Gauge One and it's quite an eye-opener. The inner chassis is made of very thick nickel silver that completely defeated my soldering iron and I had to use the RSU. In fact I ended up soldering everything with that.   The kit is from Old Originals, whom I had never heard of before but, apparently, they don't do anything smaller than Gauge One, so I I guess that's why I've never heard of them.     And just to show

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