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Manning Wardle class H - 4mm scratchbuild


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The model is a work of art!

Are you going to run 'White Peak Lime' through the years?

You've now got the Black Hawthorne and the 'Wardle through to the Ruston and the Vanguard, with the wagons to match!

Are you going to do a mod as was done to the Black Hawthorne at Wirksworth, with the cab extension? It gets a bit raw in the Derbyshire hills on a day like today!!

You and PGH are an inspiration to my crashings about!!

Keep up the great work.

                  Chris.

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The model is a work of art!

Are you going to run 'White Peak Lime' through the years?

You've now got the Black Hawthorne and the 'Wardle through to the Ruston and the Vanguard, with the wagons to match!

Are you going to do a mod as was done to the Black Hawthorne at Wirksworth, with the cab extension? It gets a bit raw in the Derbyshire hills on a day like today!!

You and PGH are an inspiration to my crashings about!!

Keep up the great work.

                  Chris.

Thanks, Chris.

This loco, and the Black Hawthorn, aren't intended for WP. They are for a layout that I have yet to build that is to be turn of the 19th/20th century; a light railway and industrial set up. I could back-date WP by swapping the gounded ex-GWR Mogo for something much older and by swapping the 1960s lorries for Sentinel and Foden steam wagons, plus removing the pallets and fork lift truck.

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This little beauty looks as good 'in the flesh' as it does in the photos.  The next Bagnall Wing Tank project should be as good - if not better!  Really looking forward to it Dave.

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On 24/01/2018 at 18:24, Ruston said:

The footplate has been tapped to take a 10BA screw, which will hold the frames to the running plate/bodywork and with 12BA screws to hold the footplate to the running plate. The bodywork will be united as one unit, which can be unscrewed from the running plate for ease of painting.

post-494-0-49583700-1516817204.jpg

The curved cab back has been formed and soldered to the footplate.

 

The cylinders have been overlaid with 15 thou. sheet and the smokebox has been assembled. The base plate of the smokebox has been tapped to take a central 10BA that will hold the bodywork and frames together, and tapped for a pair of 12BA screws that hold it to the running plate.

post-494-0-37729600-1516817275.jpg

Inside the smokebox is a piece of turned brass bar to not only add weight but to enure the front and rear panels of the smokebox are parallel.

 

More prototype photos:

 

Following Sam's photo of Empress on the Aberford Railway, here is another of that ralway's class H engines; Mulciber.

post-494-0-28388900-1516817588.jpg

 

And also Ignifer, showing the early pattern of smokebox door.

post-494-0-53301400-1516817691.jpg

 

Class H Mannings were operated by 4 mainline railways with the Midland having 5, the North Eastern 5, the Great Eastern 1 and the Cambrian 1.

This is the GER example showing off the rivets on the saddle tank. Most of this class appear to have flush-rivetted tanks.

post-494-0-90556400-1516818051.jpg

 

Here's one I built earlier...

post-494-0-49941600-1516818125.jpg

This is modelled on one of the very last class H to be built, in 1916. Different frames, cylinders and late type cab.

 

"heres one i built earlier"

Blue Peter moment right there.

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On 24/01/2018 at 18:24, Ruston said:

The footplate has been tapped to take a 10BA screw, which will hold the frames to the running plate/bodywork and with 12BA screws to hold the footplate to the running plate. The bodywork will be united as one unit, which can be unscrewed from the running plate for ease of painting.

post-494-0-49583700-1516817204.jpg

The curved cab back has been formed and soldered to the footplate.

 

The cylinders have been overlaid with 15 thou. sheet and the smokebox has been assembled. The base plate of the smokebox has been tapped to take a central 10BA that will hold the bodywork and frames together, and tapped for a pair of 12BA screws that hold it to the running plate.

post-494-0-37729600-1516817275.jpg

Inside the smokebox is a piece of turned brass bar to not only add weight but to enure the front and rear panels of the smokebox are parallel.

 

More prototype photos:

 

Following Sam's photo of Empress on the Aberford Railway, here is another of that ralway's class H engines; Mulciber.

post-494-0-28388900-1516817588.jpg

 

And also Ignifer, showing the early pattern of smokebox door.

post-494-0-53301400-1516817691.jpg

 

Class H Mannings were operated by 4 mainline railways with the Midland having 5, the North Eastern 5, the Great Eastern 1 and the Cambrian 1.

This is the GER example showing off the rivets on the saddle tank. Most of this class appear to have flush-rivetted tanks.

post-494-0-90556400-1516818051.jpg

 

Here's one I built earlier...

post-494-0-49941600-1516818125.jpg

This is modelled on one of the very last class H to be built, in 1916. Different frames, cylinders and late type cab.

 

"heres one i built earlier"

Blue Peter moment right there.

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