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A blog of the various locomotive and rolling stock projects that will be seen running on my South Brent layout, covering the Great Western in 1947

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Hornby 42xx

Since they were released I have rather fancied getting one of the large GW tanks from Hornby, however given the low specification of the model I was rather put off by the £100 price tag. However having found a damaged (and non painted) model on ebay for a sensible price, I couldn't resist... First up the problems: It needs a new chimney, 3 new steps, a superheater cover, tank vents and of course a set of sprung buffers fitting. There are also a couple of bit of damage to the side which

October 21, 2013

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Wagons - Kirk, Coopercraft & Parkside and Lima Siphon

This morning I have been working on a few wagon projects, using up the last of my Bill Bedford units (still have another 7 wagons in the to build box so best get on and order some more....) First up the second Coopercraft V5 for which I built the body last month. The chassis has now been assembled (thinning the solebars before gluing in position.) At least on these vans the higher than prototype floor is hidden inside the van (so no need to spend ages correcting it). It is now ready for f

October 19, 2013

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3863 P4 Conversion and 3215

3863 - Hornby conversion As previously mentioned at the weekend, I have been working on converting 3863 to P4. The initial conversion at the weekend showed that the crank pin nuts on the lead axel fouled the crosshead, and that the drive gear was loose on the axle. I initially attempted to cure the latter with an application of loctight, however it still persisted. I have now stripped it down and attempted to resolve through the application of additional knurling to the axle (attacking

October 4, 2013

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Berkeley Castle and 3863

One project which has sat in the to do pile for a long time has been my castle The intention is to take what was Tintagnal Castle and renumber to 4085 Berkeley Castle which will be partnered with the Hawksworth tender from this yeas GW castle release. The tender from Tintagnal will then be used with the later loco from Wellington to produce Nunny Castle. Both locos have been picked for the names rather than the use (so I hope they will fit prototypically with a future layout with red coded

September 30, 2013

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Coopercraft GWR Van and N13 open

As previously mentioned this the body has already been built following the coopercraft, all that remained was to build the chassis and detail. I have started off by adding weight, I cant stand the liquid stuff, preferring to work with lead sheet. so a 3 bits of lead were cut to fit the 3 recesses in the floor, this places the majority of the weight directly above the suspension units. (to save time the second build has it fitted inside the van.....) The solebars have been filed down to

September 10, 2013

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More wagon building, and future projects

With the wedding, honeymoon and the initial work preparing for January's arrival (painting the nursery pink) has all rather got in the way of modelling recently. Now all is sorted I have got the drive to get on with a couple of projects (though I would much rather still be in Manutius. First up yet another wagon kit is now ready for painting, another parkside Lowfit. Will get the paints out and finish it off tomorrow hopefully. Then need to get on with sorting out a couple of appropriate

September 8, 2013

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Another Collett Goods 3215

Given the heat of the summer, I have next to no interest in doing any soldering. This is a bit of a problem when it comes to the need to finish a few locos that require etched chassis... As a result, I have decided to bring forward my second 2251 and use the Ultrascales that I was going to use in the etched chassis for 2220. A quick conversion later and it is now running. However it is not that smooth a runner, and seems to have very poor slow speed control. I suspect the latter is no

July 17, 2013

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More Wagons - LMS, GW and PO

Despite it looking like the hottest weekend of the year, I have been wanting to get on with some wagon building... So on the way home from work today I dropped into the model shop and came away with a Ratio LMS van, a Cambrian "Wheeler & Gregory" 4 plank PO and a Cambrian chassis kit (giving the bits to re chassis another old Bachmann model along with the missing bits for a Cambrian LMS open) This evening I have made a start on building first up the ratio LMS van, I want to have a

July 5, 2013

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5512 - almost working...

After spending yesterday at the Scalefour society's AGM down in Teignmouth, and taking the opportunity to pin down as many people as possible for advice on my two non working locos (5512 and the mogul), I have had a bit of success putting it into action It looks like the lead crankpin is approximately .5mm too short, as a result one of the crank pin nuts falls off very easily. this was compounded by the thread in the lead crankpin nut being partially stripped allowing it to slip straight off

June 23, 2013

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More wagon kits

Last night I got on with the initial stages of the next batch of wagons, All of which are now waiting for First up a a Coopercraft Loco Coal open, and a 4 plank open. Coopercraft open wagons are a bit of a pain, given that Coopercraft have moulded the floor much too high. As a result I have corrected it by removing all of the ribs on the underside of the floor, then glued it in the correct position to the sides / ends. The solbars were then modified to remove the 2mm additional length on

June 13, 2013

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Finishing some wagons

Finally picked up a set of LMS and LNER wagon transfers (again HMRS) and a tin of LMS bauxite paint, so finally the remaining wagons could be finished off. (finished ish anyway, they will all still need buffers and 3 link couplings First up an LMS ventilated D1832 ventilated van, and a D1986 LMS 1 plank, both have been painted in the post war brauxite livery and will be lettered up this evening. The 1 plank still needs more work finishing off the paint work inside. Next a parkside D

June 8, 2013

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County

Another one of those random projects which have little use from a layout point of view, other than being an interesting exercise in modelling (which frankly is the most important thing)... As with the Saint, I am pretty undecided if I will build it in OO (using the included Romford wheels) or sell them on and buy a set of P4 Gibsons. In this case I am tending toward the latter as it means the chassis can be built to the correct width! I also will need to decide if I will make a ridged chassis, f

June 6, 2013

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Wills Saint

A while back I picked up a bargain part built Wills Saint from the second hand stand at a preserved railway, with the intention of rebuilding it as St Dunstan in post war livery (St Dunstan being the name of the junior school I went to as a child). Upon stripping back the components, it was clear that some of the components were in a worse state than others (in particular the boiler which had a large cutout for an X04 motor and a lot of rivet detail missing on the top of the boiler. Afte

May 21, 2013

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Building a Ratio Type 7 GW Signal box

Today I finally picked up one of Ratio's new type 7 GW signal box intended for "Drayott" (I really should come up with a better name, and rename this blog to differentiate from Uglypug's rather excellent sounding Cheddar project.) So far I have built the core of the structure, the base could have done with a little more support in the centre to hold the floor in place, but other than that the parts pretty much fell together. The floor has been put in position on the second photo to ensure

March 5, 2013

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Track testing

In preparation for starting work on building the new layout's track, I have got on with finishing off another old project Way back when I lived in Devon and was a regular at DRAG, I was very impressed by a little gadget used to check track condition produced by Masokits. The idea is that it is a short wheelbase brass unit on two axles, the front one has a simple rocker compensation unit which moves a 'thing' (Masokits words) up or down as it hits discrepancies. This then moves a wir

February 24, 2013

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Oh no not more wagons...

Tonight I have been trying to finish off the last few of my Christmas wagons to get them ready for paint. The aim being to get them all primed on Monday if its dry. The last job is one I always hate to do, fitting break gear and adding suspension springs and axle boxes. The former is only really an annoyance on wagons with seperate brakes (as per the lner 1 plank, 5 plank and van shown above) the problem being that the suspension unit sits across where the plastic was intended to go. I

February 22, 2013

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Hornby Hawksworth to p4

A while back I found a photo of a gwr branded Hawksworth coach in a mixed rake dated 1949 Given the availability of the fantastic Hornby model at a low price on eBay I have snapped one up. Now I did get a little carried away with bidding, and haven checked if the coach I bought matches the prototype photo (or for that matter of it is in the correct livery) but ho hum The other reason for getting the model is to use it as a benchmark for producing the other coaches for the layout

February 20, 2013

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More kit built wagons

Having put the 2251 chassis to one side while I wait for new handrail knobs, and having once again failed to buy the required plywood for the baseboard, today I have been working on wagons. Fitting bill Bedford springie bits, along with the parkside / Cambrian brake bits to a 13t sr mineral, a parkside lner 5 plank, 1 plank and van, a Bachmann po mineral and a Bachmann conflat. The latter two wagons have received replacement underframes from Cambrian leftovers, but still need brake gea

February 17, 2013

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2220 chassis part 2

A little more work completed I have modified the spacers to provide clearance for the csb brackets, typically I forgot to take a photo. Im hoping that I have provided enough clearance, else some 'interesting' modifications will be needed. Typically I have now realised that I don't have any short handrail knobs available, so cant fit them... Ideally I want to get the CSB set up tested before I make a start on adding the detail parts, so that I can ensure clearances are all ok. So I

February 16, 2013

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2220 chassis part 2

A little more work completed I have modified the spacers to provide clearance for the csb brackets, typically I forgot to take a photo. Im hoping that I have provided enough clearance, else some 'interesting' modifications will be needed. Typically I have now realised that I don't have any short handrail knobs available, so cant fit them... Ideally I want to get the CSB set up tested before I make a start on adding the detail parts, so that I can ensure clearances are all ok. So I

February 16, 2013

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2220 a high level chassis

Finally a real start on the next chassis, having been thoroughly driven mad by 5512's outside cylinders The body is nearly finished, just waiting on some etched buffer beams and a few other small details. So it is onto the chassis This will be my first attempt at a csb chassis, and will also be using the new high level 3mm bearings I have used the csb jig from high level along with the clag website for the spacings. Typically on marking out the second pivot is over a spacer so a bi

February 11, 2013

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More on 5512's new wheels

While my fiancée is out for the evening, I've taken advantage of a nights un interrupted modelling. So after taking the dog on a very long walk to ensure she passed out, I dug out the 4575 conversion to try and finish it off. I will come back and add some photos tomorrow, as the paint is currently drying... Starting off with the slide bar, The original pin on which the connecting rod (please correct me if I am using the wrong terminology) is linked to the slide bar was a larger diameter

January 31, 2013

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5512 p4 conversion

As is usually the case, now that CIMA has restarted my modelling output has disappeared. Thankfully this is the last one, and in a months time it will all be over. This evenings plans to sit and watch the Arsenal, quickly lost their attraction after yet another dismal performance. So I figured dig out something to work on. My first thoughts were to finish off 3863, only to realise that I had forgotten to buy the washers needed to modify the con rods. This will now have to wait until I

January 30, 2013

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Finney Dean Goods

Having picked up the kit today thoughts have now turned to what to model. The prototype I want to model is going to be a Westbury based machine, for which there is a photo in one of the cheddar books dated 1949. This is an early build loco and would use the narrow footplate parts, fluted rods, however the photo is too grainy to work out which of the two fireboxes needs to be used. As ever if anyone knows of a good source of photos of this loco please let me know. I am going to be b

January 20, 2013

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3863 - Hornby Conversion to P4

Having now got 5813's chassis ready for paint, It was time for the next project I made a quick start on 2220's chassis, got the jig set up so the next job is going to be prepping for the CSB locations (along with working out what if anything is going to need modifying to allow clearance for the beams. The intention is going to be to build this before I start on the Finney Dean Goods (assuming that I manage to get into Bristol tomorrow.) In the mean time I have got on with finishing o

January 19, 2013

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