Enough fiddling, it's ready for paint! I've shot a quick Youtube vid so you can view in it 360 degrees. At least in it's unpainted state you can see where I've been
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN_LS_eDpVc
Don't let SWMBO find out what I've been doing with her rotating spice rack
FInally got the tender pickups done. Used a whole length of EE's 0.35mm phosphor bronze wire to give me these fancy springy coiled backscratchers
They are soldered to two bus bars made from double sided copper clad PCB material (thanks JZ for the offcuts with your sleeper panels!) These were low melt soldered to the chassis frame on the underside then the pickup springs soldered to the top.
Took a lot of fiddling and repositioning to get them right, you can't see it but the en
Some progress on the tender. Basic chassis is soldered up and ready for pickups, dragbox and NEM pocket sorting.
I've also been detailing the body, adding wire handrails and brake handles. I've also added the brass strips on the top of the coal space and fixed in a section from a scrap tender to replace the broken corner of the top lip at the front of the coal space (see where I've sanded down etc in the second photo - the replacement bit is black plastic too)
I want to produce
The main construction fo the tender is done. All the Comet bits are soldered together and the tender body is just waiting for a final fettle (adding small plasticard bits for the ladder to rest on) and fabrication of the rear steps if I decider to add them.
Here's a few shots of the chassis just wanting final fitting of the NEM pocket (and then the vac pipes etc) and pickups.
Pickups will be "backscratcher" type from above mounted on two strips of copperclad solder
Well folks, I've made a start in reality rather than just buying bits and planning. The 2-8-2 is under way
Comet tender frame soldered up and fits the Triang tender body like a dream
Keen eyes will notice the tender body has had all the moulded handrails removed and also I've removed the (damaged) lip from the top of the coal space. I'll glue 20 thou' brass strip on the top surface to sort this once the body has been stripped of all paint.
Next steps is the tender chassis whic
It's been a while, as pointed out by Pete Harvey. Well, I've been busy exhibiting and building by Powercab PCP panel/rolling road setup, but I have managed to get the RHS lined up
keen eyes will notice that I have brushed some pre-thinned PP satin varnish over the running plate lining to beef it up ready for me to tackle the other side ........
Some of you may have seen my questions in the main forum about rear tender footsteps on this loco. Well, a couple of evening's fiddling with 3mm brass strip and a soldering iron has given me a fair representation of said steps.
Don't worry about the roughened area around the base of the step, it's where I've glassfibred away some cyano overspill
So all that's left to do is fabricate the tool tunnel and maybe open up the corresponding hole in the tender front bulkhead. Not sure ab
After a very productive evening last night we have this fabrication
I've used Comet's LS35 LMS/BR steps etch as a basis, adding a strip of spare etch from the JE deflectors to join them together and two further thin strips of etch to make the support straps. I've basically made something that resembles the old Crownline design. Should be good and strong and resist the odd knock etc.
Here's the finished article epoxied to the body
It's finished! All detailing added and I've even risked my own hands with an airbrush to give it a basic weathering ahead of the Peterborough BRM show
Here's a few snaps
Pretty pleased, just got to clean the wheels and sort out the chuff frequency on the sound chip. Note cut down Bachmann coupling to allow for the vac pipe on the front buffer beam.
The original 93000 will be prepared for sale at the show (or after). I will be including a copy of the Hornby mag th
All the detailing done, bits missing from the second hand chassis fabricated and so, good weather permitting, some paint should fall on the loco body this weekend.
Plates are on the way from Narrow Planet (thanks Steve!) so hopefully next week I should have some pics of the loco in ex-works condition before I try to weather it
sad I know, but I made a list of things to do to finish the loco - 14 things, so that's two weeks if I only do one a day - eeeek!
so here was the kitchen table workbench last night
The chassis is ready for primer, as is the front bogie having cut off the front section of the Hornby lump and drilling to take a self tapper to hold a Bachmann small coupling in place.
The bodyshell is almost done, I still need to add the screen/window that does behind the driver's seat. I
So the Paul Chetter sound chip was duly wired in and a whopping 2200uF capacitor hooked up and lo it did chuff
I know the chuff rate is not right, that's a job for tomorrow
Had a pretty peaceful weekend so in between my Dad's 80th and one of my oldest friends getting wed I managed to get some details done on the Eight.
The tender is done, speaker wired up and installed, coal in the bunker and ladder refitted. Just needs a coat or two of varnish to blend it in with the loco.
The Comet lubricators have been fitted and the holes above in the footplate filled with Squadron White. I've also stripped the lining and cabside numbers ready for painting.
After getting the body and chassis together the next step was to sort out the tender coupling/drag box area. I filed 1mm off the sides of the chassis at the rear and then cyano'd a 1mm piece of plastikard over the top. A suitable hole drilled in this allowed a shoulder screw to hold the chassis in place and also provide the pivot for the Britannia tender coupling.
frame extensions were then fabricated to fill the gaps and a new plate was cut from 10 'thou brass as the Bachmann one did n
In between fitting window sill and skirting to the bathroom I managed to get some satin black on the body
Buffer beam to repaint and get the methfix numbers on next methinks
I received the Bachmann class 5 bodyshell from Invicta on Monday so last night I set about persuading it to sit on the Hornby 8F chassis. First obstacle was the lower section of the smokebox which fouled the cylinder block. So out came the hacksaw and slitting wheel!
I cut a slot in the rear of the chassis block to accept the mounting pillar under the cab and fitted the two together, or so I thought .... The terminal block on the motor fouled the extreme back edge of the boiler - s
Took a few snaps last night of my new 93001 next to the original one I built six years ago. Thought they would be of interest
Shows how short 93000 was with the Stanier boiler rather than the BR3 from the 73xxx
Way back in the mists of time (2007) I built my first BR Standard "neverwazza" the 8F 2-8-0 that was in the 1956 build programme but never made it into metal
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8690&hilit=+93xxx
It has run successfully on Summat Colliery ever since and always provokes a reaction when folks clock the number and count the wheels etc. However, it's tender drive makes it tricky to add sound to and as the only remaining tender drive loco in the operating
So, the Crosti 9F and O1 are finished. The finishing touches are the crew - bog standard Hornby items, painted and weathered with black oil pastel.
I had to cut the driver off his molded seat for the O1 as it comes with it's own very nice item as standard. The less said about the leg and foot surgery to fit them in the better
So here's a couple of pics - I will do a full photoshoot next week as Summat Colliery is being set up for someone special to take better snaps than I, more of that
I've been dropping a few status updates about this build and have been talking to Wenlock of this parish about the kit and some of the shortfall in the instructions. Pictures were requested so I thought I'd better get a blog entry going
So the chassis is more or less done, footboards are waiting for a delivery from Eileens as the 8" Hold and Fold does not come with a centre screw and does not hold the full length of the etch well enough as it stands. Buffer housings will complete the job p
OK, so as I have hinted in SUs etc I have decided to take a break from the layout to get the second coach built in time for RMweb Live! Last night I spent a productive hour getting the basic frames together.
This is an old kit I have had for some time - bought second hand off Ian Morton, so the etches are quite tarnished. I will need to clean the parts that are soldered but for now the cyano sticks to tarnished brass just as well as shiny
This kit did not come with the later m
Again, ahead of the Mansfield Show I've finished off the T34 that I built last year. The buffers were oil finished and fitted according to the instructions and two JLTRT screw-link couplings were put together and chemically blackened.
So here we have the first coach for Fourgig ready for the show.
It will have to run with a green Lima MKI for Mansfield, it's matching all third will be done in time for RMweb Live! in September ......
Well, a huge thanks to David at Slater's as a package with a replacement sprue was waiting for me when I got home - I only posted off the stamps yesterday, so he must have trusted me
So the truss rod, support, axleboxes, springs and footboard hangers fitted tonight on the other side
also here's a shot of the gas cylinder and vacuum cylinder work from last night
buffer shanks and footboards next, then finish off the delicate bits underneath before (hopefully) a coat of pai
