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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, for simplicity saving time and money, or go for a full CSB job making it better should I ever decide to run it.

 

The project:

 

Dapol Body
- fit Jackson parts to correct cab front and roof,
- fit wire hand rails to back of cab
- detail cab interior
- replace mud plugs
- etched plates - trying to decide if I leave it as County of Somerset for which plates were included, or change to County of Gloucester
- add missing rivet detail
- replace the firebox and missing lowerboiler with Hornby 8f parts
Perseverance chassis

 

Falcon Brass tender.

 

It is with the latter that I have started looking at today, with the awful instructions not helped by not being able to find the sheet explaining what part is which number, not liking the look of all of those but joints so I have dug out some U section brass which I am going to use to form some brackets supporting the main sections and keeping them square. We are currently expecting, so I wont solder in the house when my fiancée is at home. so hoping to take advantage of her being away for tomorrow afternoon to make a start on the soldering.....

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Horsetan

The Falcon Hawksworth tender is probably one of their better ones. If you've lost the instructions, I can give you a copy set.

 

Being the full 8'6" width, I had to saw out 2mm right down the middle so it could be paired with the Modified Hall. Not easy, but it was either that or shell out for the Brassmasters Hawksworth.

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The Fatadder
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Thanks, if you could send them that would be great,

 

Looking forward to getting started.

 

Did you do anything to the chassis on yours, springing etc?

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Horsetan

I went for CSBs - but there's not that much to separate Falcon frames from Comet's, as they are both basic in outline. It's a good idea to use AGW's plastic brake hangers / shoes to reduce the possibility of short circuits.

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Rich - isn't the Dapol firebox on this model over-wide to compensate for some large motor on the RTR model?

 

In his book 'Plastic Bodied Locos', Tim Shackleton says that the County firebox is completely wrong and needs to be replaced. Also says something about the front of the cab/roof being too high?

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Rich - isn't the Dapol firebox on this model over-wide to compensate for some large motor on the RTR model?

 

In his book 'Plastic Bodied Locos', Tim Shackleton says that the County firebox is completely wrong and needs to be replaced. Also says something about the front of the cab/roof being too high?

 

The original moulding had a number of flaws - the firebox was wrongly-shaped mainly because of the motor size, and the cab roof arc was wrong (it was made single arc, but later corrected to a three-part arc).

 

I think something similar affected the Mainline "Manor" firebox - Bachmann never really got around to correcting it.

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The cab roof is rectified by the etches, the new front is glued on so just need filing to match the profile.

 

As for the firebox, its been suggested to use a Hornby 8f chopped up, though I'm unsure which version of the model is needed.

 

Unfortunately dont have the shakleton book, unlikely to be able to justify it for a while as its a tad expensive for a single chapter.

 

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Horsetan

Rich: can you send me your e-mail address by PM, please? There are some fairly large PDF scans I'll be sending you........

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