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72xx progressing slowly - in more than one sense

GWMark

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The 72xx that have have been building for quite some time now has progressed a little more since my last posting here. For some reason I only ever seem to work on this when I go to the Missenden Weekends, so one or two weekends a year makes for slow progress.

 

The job tackled this year was to get the chassis moving under power - this took somewhat longer than expected, mostly because it turned out that not all my insulated wheels were! I'm sure you can guess how I discovered that one. A lot of time was also spent in fine tuning the chassis, effort that was well worth it. It now runs so smoothly and slowly that I'm really pleased, I measured it at a scale 3 miles per hour without any stalling, on clean track. I've also done some trimming of the rear of the cylinders to allow it to take the curves on the club layout, Hinton Parva. I've had it circulating the 32 foot layout, but at slow speed it takes several minutes to do so, it moves at a real crawl. It helps that it has pickup on 8 wheels, a big motor (Mashima 1632), a 50:1 gearbox and no shortage of weight.

 

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It also proved it power when I sent it down the wrong road and it pushed 6 Bachmann collets and the mogul on the front out of the siding - the mogul was unpowered at the time! I really should have keep an eye on it, but it was taking so long to get around I got distracted. The chassis has been painted, at least behind the wheels, and the brake gear added. Unfortunately the sand box casting where such a mess I decided not to use them. Thankfully a quick email to PDK has got some replacements, so I need to simply add them and the missing rear guard irons and then that is the chassis done. Then it is some final detailing of the body and time to paint it. Maybe it will get a coat of paint before the summer is out rolleyes.gif

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I do love these locos, they really do look like they could haul just about anything! Just out of interest what livery will she be running in?

 

Kind regards,

 

Nick

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A wonderful beast, and it has that look of mass and weight that the prototype has. Seeing it crawl along the trakc must be quite a sight! I don't suppose a video is possible?

 

I missed your earlier post about the Neath & Breacon ST, for a quickie it looks really good. I hope the Dean Sidings concept is doing well commercially, it's really nice to have that kind of thing on the market. Am hoping to do some of the early GWR locos in the range in the future.

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I do love these locos, they really do look like they could haul just about anything! Just out of interest what livery will she be running in? Kind regards,Nick

 

Hi Nick

 

I'm not sure what livery to out it into, originally it was going to be GWR green, but since I started we have planned a new club layout, which is based on Oxford in 1950. So there is an opportunity to run it on there in BR guise. The thought of it being able to stretch it's legs with a long coal train on a 30ft layout may overcome my prejudice towards GWR livery.

 

Mark

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A wonderful beast, and it has that look of mass and weight that the prototype has. Seeing it crawl along the trakc must be quite a sight! I don't suppose a video is possible?

 

Hi Mikkel,

 

Sure, next time I'm at the clubroom - probably Wednesday, I'll try to remember to do some video of it.

I missed your earlier post about the Neath & Breacon ST, for a quickie it looks really good. I hope the Dean Sidings concept is doing well commercially, it's really nice to have that kind of thing on the market. Am hoping to do some of the early GWR locos in the range in the future.

 

I must admit this is the second of the Dean Sidings kits I've built, they are great for getting something done quickly and give you something that is that little bit different. Much as I enjoy soldering up white metal and brass, sometime it is just nice to get something built and looking reasonably good just to prove to yourself that you can get there - hence the Railbus I did recently. Although, truth to tell I haven't quite finished either yet.

 

 

I really hope that the small kit manufacturers can keep going, it must be tough given the quality and diversity of the RTR market and the need for instant gratification that seems to have become the norm these days.

 

Mark

 

 

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... my prejudice towards GWR livery.

 

 

I must say Mark I'm with you regarding the livery. Brunswick Green with Chocolate and Cream coaching stock is wonderful!

(Although Black with Crimson and Cream isn't too bad!)

 

Regards,

 

Nick

 

 

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