Sophia NSE Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 On 24/07/2018 at 21:12, RedGemAlchemist said: Here is my latest Pugbash. Though really it's a multi-starter-tank-bash... Introducing KLR No.11 Richard, heavily inspired by Corbs and made from a Caley Pug, a Dowlais D, a Nellie, the cylinders from a Triang Princess, a kit for a GER six-wheel tender and a piece of plastic tubing. Hey Red, is this the kind of thing you were meaning, from some of your handiwork? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 9 hours ago, Sophia NSE said: Hey Red, is this the kind of thing you were meaning, from some of your handiwork? Exactly what I meant. Granted that particular loco doesn't exist anymore but not got reasons related to that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 18 hours ago, Sophia NSE said: ... they were nice and cheap to pick up! My kind of girls 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 A Nellie somehow happened... now what on Earth am I going to do with it?.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Having had a look through spares online, I quite like the look of the cylinder block and piston rods from an Adams Radial. Would this work with my little tank? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 11 hours ago, Sophia NSE said: Would this work with my little tank? 2 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 12 hours ago, Sophia NSE said: Having had a look through spares online, I quite like the look of the cylinder block and piston rods from an Adams Radial. Would this work with my little tank? Hmm. Depends, as I have no idea if the rods will be too long. Stylistically it'll certainly look in place. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sem34090 Posted January 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2020 Not a pugbash in the sense of being bashed from a pug, but I think my O-16.5 SR No.2 fits in here. Chassis and cab are from a Fleischmann diesel, tanks and boiler Hornby J83, Smokebox door from a Bachmann E4, Scratchbuilt bunker, coal rails from a Hornby compound. 17 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Edwardian Posted January 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2020 A little bit of progress on Nellie ... The conversion was made using one of two beaten up Nellie bodies found on the the Bay of Fleas. The reason the second of these bodies is now sitting on a genuine Nellie chassis is due to a parcel that arrived out of the blue today, by way of an exceedingly kind gesture. It enables me to make a comparison. You will see that Nellie, as God and Triang intended her, sits rather higher than she does on the replacement chassis. The latter puts her buffers at a more prototypical height. As to progress, well, the body I used was sans chimney and I had nothing suitable to hand, so this week I scoured the web for a replacement. I'm rather pleased with the look of this one and it fits perfectly. I also scoured the net for some buffers, and found some nice metal Triang ones, which may well be the type with which she was fitted originally. Finally, I realised that the 2-4-0 configuration rendered the sandboxes mounted on the footplate in the angle of the smokebox wingplate and saddle redundant, and they looked rather silly, so I had to carve them off and make good. 18 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted January 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2020 This unfinished and rather dusty example from my stores cupboard might be of interest: another Tri-ang Nellie, cut down to produce a reasonable facsimile of the LSWR C14 on which the original model was loosely based. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 12 hours ago, Edwardian said: I also scoured the net for some buffers, and found some nice metal Triang ones, which may well be the type with which she was fitted originally. No, these had the separate head type buffers from first introduction. The L1 was the last Tri-ang loco with the one-piece buffers. Nellie does look good as a 2-4-0T 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 13 hours ago, BernardTPM said: The L1 was the last Tri-ang loco with the one-piece buffers. And also the first one with see-through spoked wheels. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 On 10/01/2020 at 17:25, sem34090 said: Not a pugbash in the sense of being bashed from a pug, but I think my O-16.5 SR No.2 fits in here. Chassis and cab are from a Fleischmann diesel, tanks and boiler Hornby J83, Smokebox door from a Bachmann E4, Scratchbuilt bunker, coal rails from a Hornby compound. Looks like a shrunken version of an accucraft Dora https://www.accucraft.uk.com/products/dora-live-steam-0-4-0t/ 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Interesting... very interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post papagolfjuliet Posted January 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2020 This may be of interest: a relatively simple modification to the cab of a Hornby Holden tank. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 53 minutes ago, papagolfjuliet said: This may be of interest: a relatively simple modification to the cab of a Hornby Holden tank. Hi PGJ That is definitely a case of less is more, a huge difference to appearance. Gibbo. 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post phil_sutters Posted January 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2020 On 11/01/2020 at 10:47, BernardTPM said: No, these had the separate head type buffers from first introduction. The L1 was the last Tri-ang loco with the one-piece buffers. Nellie does look good as a 2-4-0T Did some one say Triang L1? Here's one I bashed 50+years ago! It may not look too much like a 2P but I was only about 20 with limited tools and finance. 18 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted January 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2020 Gosh that takes me back Phil. I was about the same age when I did the same conversion on an Triang L1. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted January 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2020 Here's another, which is not my work but which would be dead easy to replicate: J83 body + Hornby 'Toy Story' 4-4-0 chassis + replacement pony truck + Plasticard stretcher = Drummond D50. Or, keep the original pony truck for a Drummond D51. The number is wrong: 10392 was scrapped while still in NBR livery. 12 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted January 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2020 8 hours ago, phil_sutters said: Did some one say Triang L1? Here's one I bashed 50+years ago! It may not look too much like a 2P but I was only about 20 with limited tools and finance. Back then it looked like a 2P. Triang-Hornby even produced one (black with red lining). We were rather less demanding in those days. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CinderMonkey Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) I haven't looked at this thread in a hot minute (so I'm a little late), but if one wished to take a Bachy Thomas/not Thomas and make a 2-2-2 out of it why not go full out and make a 4-2-4? (Not my photo and I don't know who to credit) Edited January 16, 2020 by CinderMonkey My atrocious grammar 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 5 hours ago, CinderMonkey said: I haven't looked at this thread in a hot minute (so I'm a little late), but if one wished to take a Bachy Thomas/not Thomas and make a 2-2-2 out of it why not go full out and make a 4-2-4? (Not my photo and I don't know who to credit) Just to be pedantic, it is a 2-2-2, the front and rear sets are on a monorail! (for want of a better way to describe it) 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Looks to me that the bogies are 2-wheel apiece, not 2 axle? Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 16, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2020 6 hours ago, CinderMonkey said: (Not my photo and I don't know who to credit) More on the Lisbon Tramway here 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullygrainey Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Thanks for the link PaulRhB. Very interesting. The text describes this loco as a 1-1-2-1-1. However it also says "the outside road wheels were 3' 9" in diameter, and there was also a rail wheel of the same diameter in the centre of the axle" so does that make it a 1-1-3-1-1 ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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