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  1. On 01/04/2023 at 13:32, Ben B said:

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    Another from my Triang/Hornby clockwork 'What-if' project :)  I absolutely love the venerable DMU from the range, and have a fair few of them in my collection (including the one that belonged to my Dad when he was a kid; it became my first non-Thomas 00 gauge train when I was 5).  Anyway, I bought a load of damaged bodies in a job lot on Ebay for another conversion, and so decided to add a clockwork DMU to this project.

     

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    It's the later Hornby issue (the last one I think before the moulds were retired in favour of the Calder Valley DMU), with the headcode box.  My vague justification for the project was Hornby engineers/designers trying to milk every last penny from the dying tooling, producing these cut-down versions to fit the standard 0-4-0 chassis sometime in the early 1980's.  The roof incidentally was missing from the bodies, and I was trying to cut-n-shut a standard Triang roof, as above.  It looked a bit naff, but a chance find online saw me acquiring a proper DMU roof.

     

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    Triang bogie sides help disguise -a bit- the standard tank-loco chassis underneath the body.  Again, the vague justification is that, like the earlier 08 I posted a couple of pages back, Hornby would have shoved this into the Thomas range as Daisy (which is certainly what Dad's old Triang DMU ended up being rather a lot!)  The trailer car rides on a broken mechanism from the collection, with the gears and springs missing.  As with the 08, the paint job is kept deliberately simple (with the addition of a bit of yellow for the front; even so, it seems a little extravagant for cost-conscious Hornby with the clockwork range, and would probably have been left plain green.

     

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    OK I'll admit, it's a bit daft, but I really like this one from the project :)

     

     

    Does it run? I was thinking of making a similar version using a Dapol Railbus kit and a Black Beetle Motor. It would be an AC 9-Volt powered mini DMU for a 1970s and 1980s BR-era themed layout using short and simplified variations of prototypical real-life locomotives and rolling-stock.

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  2. On 27/01/2024 at 22:40, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

    Unsure if this is suited for the thread, it isn’t exactly a Pugbash, Nelliebosh, a Desmondification, or a Jintystein (unless you count the use of a few Jinty wheels).

     

    A surplus of spare parts, a hacksaw, a bottle of super glue, and nothing to do with your time does strange things to the mind…

     

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    Princess chassis block, Jinty driving wheels (3MT drivers on the centre wheels, as they have the extended crank pins), a rear bogie from a black five, Princess body with the cab snipped off (though I kept the cab floor as to keep the original mounting lug), and the cab & bunker off a damaged 3MT. Half tempted to get a Prairie kit to nick the tanks from… Or maybe Jinty tanks, unsure… Oooh, I have that spare Lima 9400 body with no smokebox…

    I say! What an interesting tank locomotive! It would be perfect for the London Midland and Grand Central Joint Railway (or LMGC for short!)

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  3. 17 minutes ago, billy_anorak59 said:

    I did a similar trick, but came at it from a 'what a waste to scrap all those 10 year old Warships' point of view - cut them in half, and make a sort of HST MK1 at either end of a rake. Got as far as this, but couldn't resolve the body profile mis-match between a 42 and a Mk1....totally useless exercise of course!

     

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    Good luck to nayone who can attempt this in model-form!

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  4. 14 hours ago, TurboSnail said:

    A bit of background; the design was prepared in 1905, essentially being a side tank version of the C Class - same boiler, cylinders, wheels and motion. Designed for short mainline goods, but eventually decided to be unnecessary as they could just use the C Classes for this. Thus none of the 'N Class' 0-6-2Ts were ever built.

     

    I could have also used a Bachmann C Class as the starting point for the model, but this rather forlorn E4 was available cheap(ish) and I have less guilt chopping up a Brighton loco than an Ashford one 😁

     

    Reduced to it's component parts - the chassis dismantled for repainting and the body to get replaced. The SECR loco had (would have had? I can't remember enough Douglas Adams for the correct part tense for something that didn't exist) much smaller tanks than the Brighton one, so the big footplate casting was in for some hacksaw surgery.

     

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    Nice tank engine idea, but wasn't the N Class classification already taken by the Maunsell N Class? Also, I hope it still works again after re-assembly.

  5. So, here's work on the SECR tank engine so far:

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    This is what it started out as (being a rebrand of the old 0-4-0 Thomas model).

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    At the time of writing this post, the coal bunker was modified and the loco was given a smooth file-down on the milliput areas. The SECR H Class and R1 Class tank engines did serve as inspirational influences on me. There were a couple of holes made in both sides as for when the time comes to cut off the extended side-tanks and make new boiler-sides and splasher tops. And as another finishing time, it will have hand-rails added into the boiler and smokebox yet they will be simply made using fine styrene rods and added on as if they were moulded on for that Triang-Hornby feel to them.

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  6. 18 minutes ago, 33C said:

    Cut the whole bunker off, lose the front part of the splashers and square up the tanks. Get the dome moved back and shorten the front overhang. Bingo! N.E.R. Y7..ish....Personally, i'd lose that body and use the chassis under something less Thomas-y! Or, cut the bunker off down to the buffer beam, add pivot point and attach a coach (that has only one bogie) to get a Steam Railcar.....:locomotive:

    I appreciate your suggestions, but I was intending to cut off the extended side tanks, fill in the extra cab window, level off the front to resemble the back, stylise the bunker and tanks and attach a Ramsbottom safety valve and whistle on the cab roof.

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  7. On 16/12/2019 at 00:44, BrightonBoi said:

    Hello fellow modellers, designers and printerers!

     

    This is my first post onto this forum (or any!) after much prompting by my good friend Jack P - please visit his workbench as he has been key to my railway modelling revival so I can't thank him enough.

     

    So the story goes that I discovered the joys and wonders of CAD a few years ago while at uni, which led me to the 3D printing laboratory and from that point I got hooked on the process. Day and night was spent there, until one day I decided to have a crack at a loco. I was lucky enough to have access to a FormLabs Form 2, and thus the SECR J was the first to come off the printer. Having designed it on an old Airfix Prairie chassis and off eyeballing online pictures only, the proportions are all over the shop and especially due to the giant motor, topped off by my appalling paintwork......

     

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    I thought I could do better than that so I had a look at some other prototypes and the LBSCR K had always stood out, so I had a go at that. The large parts were done on an Ultimaker 3 with the detail again on the Form. The Airfix Prairie chassis was chosen once again and seemed to suit an awful lot better! But the paintwork needed some better skills, which is where Jack P joined the party and finished it off for me - the alliance was born! He's done an amazing job as you can see below.

     

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    So what's next on the list? There is a LBSCR J1 on a custom 3D printed chassis at the ready-to-print stage, hoping this can be printed fully in resin somehow. Also I have started work on the LBSCR Director's Saloon (as on the Bluebell) in its SR modified state with gangways (screens of both to follow!). I'm again hoping for full resin but its still in its infancy, particularly because uni is now a thing of the past so no more free printing, and I do CAD for a living for the big railway so I tend to favour other things in my free time. But slow progress is better than no progress - I have a small list of other prototypes I would like to have a crack at currently standing in no particular order at:

     

    A better LBSCR K,

    LBSCR B4x

    LBSCR D3

    LBSCR C2x

    LSWR H16

    Some other stuff?

     

    So the big questions to the crowd and for this relative newbie: how does one go about finding resources to produce accurate CAD models? Where does one find reliable GAs? Also, are people interested in these models for themselves, in some form or another?

     

    The project taking up all my time is in fact a DC electronic signalling system, which can protect blocks, operate signals, read points, ramp up and down the speed range accordingly, all automatically into one PCB (per signal that is). Spurred on by another friends' building of a layout I thought this needs some investigation. I have a proven working custom IR track sensor in hand, and initial simulation testing is promising - I have some good confidence it could work so far! Might I need a separate thread for this? Do you think this is a practical system, given some vast wiring required too?

     

    Anyway that's my introduction, thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing some thoughts!

     

    BrightonBoi

    Nice Mogul! Is there a chance of making one? I hope to do so myself. Also, what would I need to make it?

  8. I've been on a bit of a Pugbasher lately as well as focusing on my Postmodern Pre-Grouping project. Seeing as I discovered a way to create SECR coaches using Hornby's old Four Wheel Coaches, I thought about adding an SECR-liveried Hornby 0-4-0 made using one of their modern ones:

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    So, here are some planning stages as I was inspired by the SECR H, R1 and P Classes to create a freelance SECR tank engine to compliment the coaches I made. I may be an LNWR and Midland fan, but I do have the soft spot for the SECR, LSWR, LB&SCR, NER, S&DJR and the GWR particularly the Dean and Churchward stuff. Anyone like the idea?

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