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Collett Goods in P4 - Part 5 - chassis complete


ullypug

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Evening all
after a very inspiring but tiring day at Scalefour North yesterday, I found time to make a little progress on the Collett Goods today.
The tender chassis is virtually complete and just needs the vacuum tank adding before its ready for the paint shop.
The loco chassis now has pick ups too (36gauge phosphor bronze mostly hidden behind the steps) and bus bars with the final connection to the motor now in. I'm pleased that the CSB's are working well, even on the rear driven axle.
I managed to pick up a belpaire backhead from 247 Developments so I can now concentrate on the loco body detailing; I'm not going to do much because strangely I want to keep the essence of the Replica original, so it'll just be a smokebox dart, brass handrails and a loco crew.
Just debating what paint finish to give it...

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Forgive me, Andrew, but I think you've gone a tad beyond the basic Replica example now.

 

Absolutely - more of a handcrafted home-produced sausage than a supermarket one, so to speak....

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Very nice. I appreciate that you don't fancy doing too much to it, but I would thin the cab side sheets a smidge and definitely the cab roof. 

 

Adam

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Absolutely - more of a handcrafted home-produced sausage than a supermarket one, so to speak....

Thank you for explaining that in terms that I can understand, Horse, much appreciated.

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Thank you for explaining that in terms that I can understand, Horse, much appreciated.

 

You're very welcome.

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Very nice. I appreciate that you don't fancy doing too much to it, but I would thin the cab side sheets a smidge and definitely the cab roof. 

 

Adam

Yes, I think you're probably right!

 

Forgive me, Andrew, but I think you've gone a tad beyond the basic Replica example now.

 

:-)

 

Absolutely - more of a handcrafted home-produced sausage than a supermarket one, so to speak....

 

thanks. I'll take that as a condiment...

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Spent an hour trying to get it to run on the test track. It kept falling off. Finally realised I was running it on the EM configuration (I have a multi-gauge track)  Once switched to P4 it ran lovely.

Doh!

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Good thing you can switch between the gauges then :-)

 

The chassis looks superb. Will the timber merchant have a see-through structure? That would give a nice eye-level view. 

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