It's almost finished. The pony truck has not actually been fixed on yet and there are still transfers to apply plus a few small finishing touches (the crew need some steps to actually be able to get into the cab I just realised!) but the Frankensteins Monster is almost complete!!
Still plenty of rough edges that show up in the cruel lens of my camera though!
Back to the workbench at last and the nearly completely assembled Q-Tank body now has more filler in it than my Dad's old Ford Cortina circa 1979...
A coat of primer has been sprayed on to highlight any areas (and there are several!) that need further attention with filler and files but I am getting there...
I must be mad.....
Returning to the project after a few days the bunker assembly has been attached to the rear of the main part of the loco:
Apologies for the tape over the cab roof, have not yet looked at that bit yet!!
The rear tender buffer beam from the donor Q1 loco has been cut off and added to the rear of the bunker replacing the GBL 4MT Standard one for more commonality (plus it has sprung buffers already fitted of course).
Also added all be it with double sided tape temporarily are some
No going back now, the tanks are glued on!!
Attention has turned to the bunker end and after a lot of umming and arring I concluded that the best combination would be the cab end of the Q1 tender allied to the bunker of the 4MT so after some cutting with the razor saw, the two parts have been tested attached with sticky tape and so far it looks all right:
I may refit the sliding shutter parts to the bunker when this is complete which I am certain had the QT (my choice of classificat
This evening has seen further work done on the side tank, the GBL 4MT tank has been trimmed down in length (the cab side section has been lost) and the curved angle mid way filed for a more angular look.
The separate top sections of the tanks that the GBL 4MT come with have been especially useful and have also been filed to fit.
There will be an extension to the side of the cab to bring it down to the same level as the base of the tanks, also I have had another idea about the
For a long time I have been interested in the various drawings that exist of variants of the wartime beast that is O.V.S. Bulleid's Q1 0-6-0 freight loco.
To this end I have decided to try and create some of these 'neverwazzas' in OO scale using the Hornby Q1 as a starting point.
The first project is based on drawing number W5975 (can't show that here as I believe it is subject to copyright) which shows the Q1 boiler and loco chassis incorporated into a 0-6-2T tank locomotive.
The
