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All mouth and trousers, part the second...


EHertsGER

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Otherwise, just to prove I'm not sitting on my thumbs, here's a selection of those that have made it some way off the bench so far...

 

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An 'almost there' Alan Gibson J15 set to look,as it was running in early 1962 (aha! spot the deliberate mistake...). Not much to report beyond it being a straightforward, if rather dated, kit to build - but until Hornby started making wild promises this was all we had short of Stephen Poole/NuCast or a flailing fretsaw. The chassis are in the workshop currently and should emerge on a day less busy that those at present. The deliberate mistake? there are two: for early 1962 65460 was lined in red for the Movie 'Postman's Knock', filmed in part on the Buntingford Branch. It remained so (honest, it's under all that grime on later photographs of it...) until the end. From the 1940s it was fitted with tablet collecting apparatus for use on the former M&GN also. Haven't quite got to fretting that yet....

 

Sorry..now I have found a third - wrong tender. Sure an S23 but in '62 it was one of the D-shaped frame cut-outs, not as seen here...dammit!

 

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An LNER version of the J15 - a completely random selection of number, though true for the configuration you see here and yes, a visitor to Buntingford in the 1930's. Chassis etc is being built in parallel with the above. Watch this space/these spaces...

 

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A rather meaningless picture here as the third tender is pretty much anonymous without its locomotive (which will be 65464 - another oddity of livery) but is here to prove it all goes together. Underneath and rather hard to see is the scratch built chassis, beam compensated on the front two axles. It runs beautifully, but that brake gear was a swine to get right. With the brake shoes so close to the wheels we had a danger of shorting, so the actual shoe is cut from phenolic resin (not far off tufnol but more easily worked). With compensated wheels, we also had to make them flex so as to move in response to suspension movements. All proven now, so on with the rest...

 

Now for some wagons...

 

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A nice pair of....cattle wagons, one on the left a Parkside body on a Bill Bedford chassis, the one on the right a 51L kit of a NER design but a 1924 LNER build (see Tatlow for all the details). Wheels are Gibson running in Bill Bedford irons. Couplings (wrong) are Exactoscale. Paint Precision, lettering HMRS.

 

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Same story here for the two opens - Parkside/Bedford.

 

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A pair of GER from the vaults - a D&S 10t o/f ventilated van and a Stelfox 7 plank open. The van is sitting on Bedford irons, Exactoscale brakes and Gibson wheels. Paint by Precision, lettering by POWSIDES. The 7 plank has a scratch built chassis, Exactoscale brakes/couplings, LMS buffers & Gibson wheels. Paint and lettering as before - but I'm not happy with it, especially the numbers, which is why I am working on a broader range of GER transfers (I have been for some while now, but it's low on the to do list, so don't hold your breath).

 

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Awwww....if anything reminded me of Jim Russell's book on GWR wagons it is this. I got the book ages ago, when I was still mucking about with Hornby, back in the days when we all lusted after GWR branch lines (yep, the 70's). I just liked the shape and with all that agricultural machinery going up and down the line. The excuse was pretty easy to find. A D&S kit in railmatch GWR grey with HMRS lettering/Gibson wheels etc.

 

And now, about as modern as you can get on 'The Bunt'; a pair of Parkside PALVANs on Justin Newitt's spiffy (to date I have said that about his chassis here on this site somewhere six times. They really are..) chassis.

 

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Hopefully I have at least given the impression of some form of movement on the workbench...more anon when I get things done...

 

Best,

Marcus

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