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[Captain Pugbash]

I've got a spare nellie and  j72, anyone got any suggestions of what to do with them?

[Compound2632]

2 minutes ago, Captain Pugbash said:

I've got a spare nellie and  j72, anyone got any suggestions of what to do with them?

 

So, starting from a Drummondesque 0-4-0T and a Worsdellian 0-6-0T, can one get to some sort of Scottish 0-6-0T and a NER-looking 0-4-0T?

[Captain Pugbash]

hmmm j70 body is too long for nellie chassis, and the nellie has a large overhang on the frame so cutting the body down isn't a real option either, a 2-4-0 perhaps?

[Captain Pugbash]

Actually this might be doable by fiddling and cutting and glueing all the stuff in the bits box

[AlfaZagato]

I was going to say, pull the motor from the Nellie.   Then use the Nellie chassis for some Mason-Fairlie thing, tied along with the J72.

[Captain Pugbash]

ive still got a nellie chassis, 101 body,  bauhreihe 80 motor and chassis with one axle. a complete 80 chassis and a whole lot of bits

[Gilwell Park]

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I have been following this forum for years but now a combination of lockdown & pouring rain have persuaded me to contribute. As a regular visitor to Stratford in steam days I was always fascinated by the departmental locos in their own small shed. Here are my efforts.  33 is a Hornby industrial body, modified, on a Rivarossi American switcher chassis. No 30, freelance model, is a Nellie body on a Drewery shunter chassis kit purchased from Kings Cross Models very many years ago. Powered by a Triang XT60 motor.

 

[Adam FW]

I've been doing some digging and have finally found my pugbash hiding with some wagons in a box.

 

 

I can take almost no credit for this other than cab painting, glazing, and converting it to DCC as I bought it at a swapmeet in Derbyshire for a whopping £15 a year or 2 ago.

 

It's based of the caledonian pug with a new spectacle plate, square saddle tank, whistle etc but more unusual is the custom valve gear with new pistons and working slide bars attached to the cut down original connecting rods. All of the painting, lining and letting was done by hand.

 

As I understand in H Lovatt was a railway contractor around Leicester but Loco No2 was an 0-6-0 not an 0-4-0 based on the few pictures I've seen.

 

It runs nicely and the valve gear has held up despite the pocket rocket speeds

 

Edited April 30, 2020 by Adam FW

[AlfaZagato]

7 minutes ago, Adam FW said:

I've been doing some digging and have finally found my pugbash hiding with some wagons in a box.

 

 

 

Really neat, almost if Nielson had lasted to the 20s.

[Adam FW]

52 minutes ago, AlfaZagato said:

 

 

Really neat, almost if Nielson had lasted to the 20s.

It's just a shame the poor driver can't see where he's going, the saddle tank obscures most of the spectacle plate so if I ever put a crew on the footplate one of them will have to be leaning out the side to look forwards which I don't think I've seen a model of.

[Captain Pugbash]

Realy love the big boxy tank

[sem34090]

On 28/04/2020 at 22:28, Adam FW said:

Firstly I'm new here but thought I'd show off what spending too much time on CAD software along with having a 3D printer, a sacrificial Bachmann Thomas (or in this case 'Stuart') and some poundshop spray paint resulted in

 

I'm aiming for an approximation of the Kitson No5 long boiler pannier tank in an NCB livery, the wheel spacing is off but the wheel base looks about right which is good enough for me.

 

 

Sadly Thomas needed some drastic surgery so there's not much of him left.

 

 

I designed the body in Fusion 360, printed it in multiple parts to make the painting easier and just have to repaint some wasp stripes on the sandboxes,  make some handrails, fit sprung buffers, glue it all together, attempt some decals then tone down the gloss

 

 

I've got another loco on the go at the moment on an electrotren 0-6-0 chassis which I'll put some images up of when the paint's dry along with the few other body swaps or bashes that I've done in the past couple of years once I've found where I've stashed them (the joy of moving house)

 

That is simply gorgeous and I'd be seriously tempted to buy one were it offered for sale, or to print one on my own photon were the file available to download or purchase.

[TangoOscarMike]

17 hours ago, Adam FW said:

It's just a shame the poor driver can't see where he's going, the saddle tank obscures most of the spectacle plate so if I ever put a crew on the footplate one of them will have to be leaning out the side to look forwards which I don't think I've seen a model of.

 

I've used one of the Dapol figures in this way, as shown here. He's the one on the far left in this picture. With a bit more effort I could have had him leaning out a bit more.

 

Some of the other poses in this set have a bit of a lean to them, and might be suitable.

 

I love the model (the previous owner's work and yours). Freehand lettering of that standard is not commonplace.

Edited May 1, 2020 by TangoOscarMike
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[Adam FW]

4 hours ago, TangoOscarMike said:

 

I've used one of the Dapol figures in this way, as shown here. He's the one on the far left in this picture. With a bit more effort I could have had him leaning out a bit more.

 

Some of the other poses in this set have a bit of a lean to them, and might be suitable.

 

I love the model (the previous owner's work and yours). Freehand lettering of that standard is not commonplace.

Cheers, I’ll consider one of those Dapol figures.

 

Wish I’d bought more from the bloke as he had loads of brilliant kit and scratch built items, mostly LNER stuff though which isn’t really my thing though one of his motorised Stirling singles was tempting. I did pick up some ratio coaches and a Foden steam lorry which were built and painted to a similar standard.

[Adam FW]

20 hours ago, sem34090 said:

That is simply gorgeous and I'd be seriously tempted to buy one were it offered for sale, or to print one on my own photon were the file available to download or purchase.

Thanks. I’ve considered putting some of my other designs up on shapeways marketplace but I’m not as happy with this one as I am my other designs as it looks nice but is a pig to build

 

once I get this one built I might do a version 2 that requires far less hacking and slashing to fit together properly and I may well upload that if it’s good enough. 
 

 I’d also definitely have to make instructions for the chassis as that was surprisingly difficult to work on, I’ve never seen another model where the motor is primarily attached to the body not the chassis

[BenNewland]

Just a quick not to say thanks for your welcome and replies RedGemAlchemist, Corbs and Adam FW.

Thanks too for the note on print quality etc.

 

Progress is very slow my end but will post up something when it is suitable.

Thanks all,

Ben

 

[Adam FW]

Thought I'd give a quick update on the Bachmann Thomas based Kitson pannier tank that I've been working on:

 

1. the sandboxes are stripy

2. hand rails and pipes to the sand boxes are bent and fitted

3. safety valve glued in place

4. cab detail painted

5. NCB decals slid into place (really impressed with the Railtec transfers, shame they don't have a matching no41 decal for it)

6. sprung buffers assembled and fitted

7. coal added to the cab floor (not sure if this was the same during it's working life but in preservation they appear to pile coal up on the left side of the cab with some planks against the doorway to stop it falling out)

8. fingers stuck together twice

 

 

 

It's coming along nicely, and should be done in a couple more quiet evenings.

Edited May 4, 2020 by Adam FW

[Corbs]

Gorgeous. How close to scale is the body out of interest?

 

[Adam FW]

1 hour ago, Corbs said:

Gorgeous. How close to scale is the body out of interest?

 

Pretty close I think, though it’s all based on scaling photographs not measurements and the best side views are of other kits or scratch builds so I’m relying on those being good
 

Some of it is affected by the rtr chassis which is tall and has large wheels so it sits a bit too high. And to maintain durability thin plates are too thick most obviously on the cab though I’ve gone thinner on more recent designs

 

one of the best ways I’ve found of checking scale on industrial locos is to find a picture of it next to an austerity 0-6-0 then compare my 3d print on the chassis along side my model of wilbert and see how well it matches up.

[scots region]

Hi @Adam FW I've been thinking of trying the Julia edge kit, the Kitson pannier was such a unique prototype I was automatically attracted to it. Would it be possible to beg the file for the 3d print off you at some point?  

[John Besley]

On 13/10/2018 at 13:44, Ruston said:

New running plate, buffer beams and buffer blocks made.

 

Branchlines chassis under construction and trial fit of High Level gearbox. The motor is a tiny thing from China. It has the same dimensions as a Mashima 10/15 but cost a fraction of the price.

Where can I get hold of those motors please...

[Adam FW]

Just to let anyone whose interested know I've started a workbench thread in 'modifying and detailing rolling stock' called Adam's Workbench - CAD, 3D printing, bashing RTR locos etc

 

Its mostly going to be covering my 3D printed bodies for RTR locos, starting with Florence from the Foxfield Railway on an Electrotren 0-6-0 chassis.

 

 

I'll get onto the Kitson Pannier at some point aswell and I don't intend on stopping putting images up on this thread of anything new/interesting I make or buy

Edited May 9, 2020 by Adam FW

[Corbs]

That looks fab. Is the body of this one to scale?

[Adam FW]

Just now, Corbs said:

That looks fab. Is the body of this one to scale?

Thanks

 

Before I fully assembled it I would have said yes, but I think it's a bit too tall by about 3mm (it's a wonder I can live with myself after such a mistake), some of that it due to the wheel size and the cab roof thickness (can't really alter this without changing the roof material or squashing the cab front) the rest is simply me making the smokebox too large originally and not scaling the saddletank and cab down to match when I noticed the issue and reduced it's size.

 

Luckily it's an easy fix on CAD and makes a good excuse to have a version 2 maybe of Courageous or one of Florence's other class mates since I've got another chassis. It's also not very noticeable unless you're comparing it directly against a photograph with matching rolling stock.

 

It's not a model I spent much time designing, maybe 2-3 days on the computer in between painting a couple of doors for the house whilst it was raining outside and spending too long on youtube. So I'm not too fussed that it's not perfect.

[Corbs]

With that - make sure you are measuring from railhead rather than sat on the desk as the large flanges of the Electrotren chassis will make it appear taller