Show us your Pugbashes, Nellieboshes, Desmondifications, Jintysteins

[Corbs]

Alternative thread titles:

'Let's bash our pugs together'

'The Pug CircleBash Club'

'Bash my pug'

'Puggery'

'Pugginton Bashminster, Esq.'

 

Anyway, if you'd like to know what 'pugbashes' are, they are kitbashes using either the airfix or Hornby/Dapol 'pug'.

 

They are especially popular among the narrow gauge community. In fact a few years ago there was a popular competition to produce a 009 Pugbash!

 

I thought it would be nice to have a thread to show our various uses of this venerable veteran of the modelling world, including body swaps, narrow and standard gauge, etc. etc.

 

Here's some of mine.

 

TK&F No.5

A 2-4-0T loosely based along Dubs, Hunslet and Sharp Stewart lines. I used the Pug chassis, cab and mechanism using Hornby Adams Radial motion/cylinders, a Holden tank running plate, smokebox and side tanks, with a marker pen for the boiler.

This is my current favourite loco. I've added a swinging pony truck made from styrene using an extra Pug axle and added electrical pickups. The boiler and smokebox are stuffed with lead as it couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding without it.

 

 

NWR No.106 'Perseus'

Roughly based on an 0-4-0ST version of Avonside 0-6-0ST 'Woolmer' of the LMR. Utilitised the good old Pug chassis and motion with a VERY cut and shut Triang 'Nellie' body, with the saddle tank from another favourite, Smokey Joe.

This is also packed chock full of lead and has really good haulage capacity. If I'm honest I wish I had cut and shut the smokebox and cab more to bring the overall length down and reduce the overhang.

 

 

I'm forever trawling the web looking for more as I love them, so will add some 'finds' to the thread, but please do share if you've made one!

 

 

Edited March 1, 2017 by Corbs

[Corbs]

A pugbash a day helps you shunt a whole train....

 

Here's a Peckett-style one Neil did:

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/108575-bashing-the-pug/

 

[Wigan Wallgate OO Gauge]

Brilliant topic idea!

[rockershovel]

I do like the 2-4-0T, it being that rarest of Pugbashes, something original and with the right overall proportions.

[cal.n]

Does this count?

 

https://flic.kr/p/GC926Y

 

https://flic.kr/p/FR51zr

[Corbs]

Thanks guys, I do enjoy a good bash in the morning, so here's another one. This Manning Wardle type was made by '46444' of this Parish, you can see the blog posts showing its construction here:

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/531/entry-12233-manning-wardle-h-class-or-a-pug-bash-part-1/

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/531/entry-12246-manning-wardle-h-class-part-2-of-a-pug-bash/

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/531/entry-12294-manning-wardle-h-class-part-3-of-a-pug-bash/

 

 

This one was based off one Phil Parker did, shown here:

 

 

http://philsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/h-class-conversion-in-Hornby-magazine.html

Edited December 12, 2022 by Corbs

[Corbs]

Does this count?

 

https://flic.kr/p/GC926Y

 

https://flic.kr/p/FR51zr

 

Why yes! We may as well include the Caley Pug as well as the L&Y class 21.

That does look a fine example.

[cal.n]

Why yes! We may as well include the Caley Pug as well as the L&Y class 21.

 

That does look a fine example.

 

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Thanks for posting as an image, I cannot until I get to a computer

[Londontram]

Here's a link to one I did many moons ago (many many moons actually) which still runs on my son Chris's (Deltic Chris) lay out

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/77483-crane-tank-on-a-Hornby-caley-pug-chassis/

 

Its a loose copy of one of the Stanton iron works crane tanks (One of which is preserved at the Midland railway center)

 

For some strange reason I have the hankering just as a bit of fun to take another Caley pug and back date it to look like a Neilson and Co. original with flat top Y shaped tank and more simple cab

Edited March 1, 2017 by Londontram

[Corbs]

Nice one Steve, that looks ace! Just copying an image into this thread

[Londontram]

Why yes! We may as well include the Caley Pug as well as the L&Y class 21.

That does look a fine example.

I love this one to bits, this is deffo going on my future build list

Edited March 1, 2017 by Londontram

[BlueLightning]

How about my backdating of a Hornby Caley Pug. Based very loosly on "Kelton Fell" as preservered by the Scotish Railway Preservation Society. I also made a tender to go with it as I wanted something different from all those "pcoket rockets".

 

I have added more detail since these photos were taken but I can't get to the model to take any more at the moment.

 

 

 

 

Gary

Edited March 1, 2017 by BlueLightning

[Twright]

Not quite as much bashing as some, an 'RAF' pug.

 

 

Really poor picture, sorry

Edited March 1, 2017 by Twright

[BG John]

This is getting interesting, and I've already pinched some ideas! I've got a Nellie, a couple of Smokey Joes, and some Holden 101 bodies to bash into some interesting or weird things. Plus my old conversion of Smokey Joe to broad gauge, that needs more work.

[Northroader]

Mr. Corbs, sir, on your esteemed new hyperthread, are On16.5 rebuilds allowed? and would Nellies and Desmonds be let through the door?

[Corbs]

Mr. Corbs, sir, on your esteemed new hyperthread, are On16.5 rebuilds allowed? and would Nellies and Desmonds be let through the door?

Yes why ever not, I was thinking of adding links to some 009 bashes as well.

 

I too wondered about Nellies and Desmonds, maybe I should extend the thread title?

[Northroader]

G'wan, G'wan..

[rockershovel]

The Manning Wardles appear to be the reverse of the usual, being Pug chassis with little or nothing of the original body incorporated! Nice little pieces, though, very much "in character"

[BG John]

Has anyone got any cheap and easy suggestions for improving the connecting rods and slide bars on Smokey Joes?

[Northroader]

Ooh, ta, you won't regret it, guvnor, grovel, grovel.. here's a Nellie with a new superstructure, which is a sort of narrow gauge version of a Highland Railway "Dornoch" 060T, but its only an 040T really, as you can see. I'm afraid it's a bit "stop-go".

 

Edited December 8, 2022 by Northroader

[Corbs]

Technically a Nellieboshed cab spliced with a Bachmann Junior, here's my Avonside 'Portbury', and Pug motion

Edited March 1, 2017 by Corbs

[James Harrison]

Technically a Nellieboshed cab spliced with a Bachmann Junior, here's my Avonside 'Portbury', and Pug motion

 

Are the Bachmann starter locos allowed on?  Because I bashed one of those not so long ago. 

 

 

I've also got a Nellie and a couple of Pugs, Nellie is going to be sympthetically restored as I've a soft spot for her looks but I'm not decided yet on what to do with the saddle tanks. 

[BlueLightning]

Well if we are going to the extremes of "bashing" this technically started life as a Nellie!!

 

 

 

 

Gary

[Corbs]

Are the Bachmann starter locos allowed on?  

 

I think my aim with the theme of the thread was using cheap starter-set type locos to make interesting and unusual locos, so yes.

[Captain Kernow]

This is a scratchbuild rather than a modified RTR loco, but it still comes under the 'wierd and wonderful' category, perhaps. This was scratchbuilt by Brian Clarke many years ago and is currently in my care. Officially named 'Dictu Prince', we always used to call it 'Dictu Titty'. It runs superbly, however, as you might expect of a Brian Clarke loco.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2022 by Captain Kernow