philbax

Love the Princess Mike, Does your renumbered 42604 have the shorter firebox? Oh, doesn't the carlisle layout need some duchesses!!!! hint hint! Phil

and a bigger magnifying glass!!

Good to see you back 'in task' What is the book/magazine you have open for reference Phil

Cracking job, until you do it yourself no one has any idea how difficult and fiddly this valve gear is to get it working well. You have done a good job mate. Will you keep the single chimney? It was originally fitted with a double chimney but not for all that long.

Update on the brassmasters version, they are aware There are still a number of outstanding components The mechanism that links to 2 halves of the reversing rod Snifting valves, two supplied but there should be two under the front footplate and two on the external steam pipes I started to use the E piston slide support but in the etch adaption from P4 to EM the width is too narrow, If you are building EM frames you will need to use the P4 version and reduce the width of the frame stretcher. Handle the smokebox with great care it is very fragile before the smokebox door is fitted. The cab ventilator cover is missing Bogie support plate assembly, only one of each version is supplied in the additional etch, there is of course one each side. If you are using the angled version the other one can be adapted. There is a need for an additional lubricator if you are modelling the production series You will need to make a strip to fit between the cab sides and the footplate valance Working on the valve gear at the moment, have a basic running chassis and will post some pictures soon Philbax

I don't think I could afford the rust remover for that lot!!! I'll stay with what I have

Chris at high level will supply the grub screw gear in place of the non grub screw version for an extra £1 I think. I always use grub screws on the gears to make sure I can check the free running of the chassis during construction philbax

the piston valve crosshead is from Brassmasters, they will sell some castings separately if you ask nicely Phil

Has anyone received the CD and the extra etches yet? I would like to know what is contained in the etches and also if any additional castings are included. A bit disappointed in some of the white metal castings as these are the same as the ones cast in Lost wax brass in their other kits (royal scot for instance) and I think for the high price these should be L/W ot W/M, what do others think Happy new year BTW Phil

pointless really, the benefit of NS is that it is stronger then Brass, I don't think plating it is worth the effort, I may be wrong though

I suggested that it would be better in NS to Eileens a year ago, but obviously we would have to wait until the stock was reordered. Mine was in brass but has survived so far

We have the instructions and the rest should follow next week. In the instructions there is mention of part 190 (under the front bogie) seeing that the present tally of part runs up to 176 there is more to come.

I used the bill Bedford coupling rods on mine in place of the brassmasters ones, for some obscure reason, I think they are not the extra 4" long between the centre and rear coupled wheels. In fact I am pretty sure otherwise they would not have been a direct replacement Phil

Just for reference, Alan Gibson used to provide a kit for this Stanier 2-6-0