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Hornby Peckett 0-6-0ST 'Westminster'. Step 3 - Chassis 1.

Mick Bonwick

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Before starting work on the chassis, some protection is needed for the fragile whistle on the cab roof. I learned the hard way from working on the Peckett 0-4-0STs that these break off with only the slightest touch. The locomotive will be inverted in a foam cradle for chassis painting, so a large lump of BluTack is used to prevent the whistle from touching the cradle.

 

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To help with the application of paint to the coupling rods and motion I usually position the wheels so that one side is at the bottom limit of travel, or close to it. This allows me to access the largest surface area of wheels on both sides of the chassis without having to turn them too often.

 

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On this occasion the paint used in the airbrush will be Railmatch Sleeper Grime. I use this and Frame Dirt, interchangeably, as a basis for most current projects. The enamel paint is thinned with nothing more expensive or complicated than white spirit. A small quantity is transferred from the glass dish (which originally held a Gu dessert) straight into the airbrush colour cup, and the paint transferred from the jar using a normal no. 4 round brush. The small quantities of weathering materials being used requires nothing more than half a cup of mixed and thinned paint. The airbrush being used is my favourite, an Iwata Eclipse SBS.

 

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Tony Teague
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Could you advise whether the dish from one flavour of Gu dessert works better than any other? Just curious :rofl:

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Captain Kernow
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Hi Mick, have you ever considered wiring the loco up direct to a controller, so that you can rotate the wheels while you are airbrushing, thus allowing you to also clean the treads with a cotton bud whilst the paint is still wet? (you can see that I've been thinking about this but haven't done it myself yet!).

 

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Mick Bonwick
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Yes, my Captain. I have done it that way, I have done it upside down in a cradle, I have done it with DC and DCC locomotives, I have done it on or off a rolling road and I have done it on or off a piece of track with buffer stops at one end. Whatever works best for the locomotive and process at the time of application, depending on the mood I'm in at the time.

 

You're going to have to wait until the next post to see which method I'm going to use for this project. :P

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5 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said:

I suggest trying them all and then making your own, much more informed, decision. :good_mini:

 

I'm on it! :superman:

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On 25/11/2019 at 17:19, Mick Bonwick said:

Yes, my Captain. I have done it that way, I have done it upside down in a cradle, I have done it with DC and DCC locomotives, I have done it on or off a rolling road and I have done it on or off a piece of track with buffer stops at one end. Whatever works best for the locomotive and process at the time of application, depending on the mood I'm in at the time.

 

You're going to have to wait until the next post to see which method I'm going to use for this project. :P

 

Lots of doing there. 

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