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Today I finished off the Q1.

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I'm quite pleased with the weathering as I tried out a new technique using talcum powder to build up dirt on the underframes. I got the idea from The Loco Builder on YouTube but I think Martyn Welch recommends it as well.

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Sorry for the poor quality; I was just using my phone's zoom.

 

Now I can finally finish off that horsebox that I started ages ago.

 

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Blimey - nearly 3 months since I last posted something on here!

I haven't had much enthusiasm or time lately for modelling so I've just been enjoying running trains. Hopefully, over the Christmas period I should be able to build a wagon or two or something like that.

Those of you who have met me will be aware that I'm still at secondary school and I'm in my last year which means around 2 months of exams starting from May. Because of this, I probably won't be doing much until July and if I am doing some modelling it probably won't be worth posting on here. However, after exams are over I'll (hopefully) be tackling my first commission which I'll certainly be putting progress of on here.

 

On a lighter note, yesterday was the Ely club's annual modelling competition and I got to take the trophy home for another year. Which (to quote The Fast Show) was nice.

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There was only one vote between myself and the member who came second so it was a very close competition.

As you can see behind the Q1 we had some festive refreshments as well.

 

And on that note, Merry Christmas everyone reading this and may all your new trains run well,

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Jamie, I am delighted I've found your thread.

The standard of your work for someone still at school is a joy to behold.

If you look at your early posts and then your later ones the improvements are already very obvious,,,, so just keep modelling.

 

Good luck with the impending exams but please don't make the same mistake I made,,, I thought modelling was more  important!!! WRONG

 

SAD:(

 

 

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So much for not doing anything worth posting! Well, it seemed rude not to buy a Bachmann O4 for only £60.

As some of you may know, the Bachmann O4 isn't correct straight out of the box for any sub class. It's an O4/1 (GCR built) loco with an O4/3 (ROD built) tender. As O4/3s were far more numerous, I decided to convert the model to O4/3 status.

The first job was to remove the vacuum ejector pipe from the RHS of the boiler. This came off fairly easily and then there was just a bit of cleaning up needed. The front, top lamp iron was moved from the door to the top of the smokebox and the vacuum pipes were cut off. The chequered plate just below the smokebox was smoothed over with filler and then sanded down. The wistle was moved onto the top of the cab roof and then the rear roof rib was cut off and a new rib glued on.

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The loco was renumbered to 6257, a Colwick loco, and weathered, firstly with paint and then with weathering powders. A crew and coal have also been fitted.

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Now all she needs are some three link couplings.

 

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While I'm at it, I might as well show what else I've been doing over the holidays. I  had far more time than I thought I would so I managed to get two wagons almost finished for Weybourne, an SR pill box brake van and a lowmac

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The brake van required the sand boxes to be taken off the ends. They came off fairly easily just by slipping a blade between them and the body and cracking the glue. Then I had to fill the holes and add the centre lamp iron. This vehicle just needs to be renumbered and weathered.

 

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Thanks manna,

The GWR version is certainly a better starting point as it has the right cab and the running plate is better around the cylinders.

I got the info about raising the cylinders from Graeme King who was able to provide (very useful) photos and notes. I agree it’s a vast improvement.

 

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Well, so much for not doing any modelling until after exams! Obviously, school was closed last week and my GCSEs have been cancelled. And that means more time for modelling. Win-win!

My parents very kindly payed half of the cost of a London Road Models LNER superheated D2 and all the extras needed to complete it. The kit arrived this morning but the motor and gearbox are still in the post.  

This is where I got up to today

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This shows the complexity of the kit. The brake gear has been a right fiddle and unfortunately I think I might have to cut some away for the pickups.  

The kit is superb. I didn’t have to ream the bearings or coupling rods at all and the chassis rolled down the workbench with just the lightest of prods.

 

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It lives!

 

The motor and gearbox arrived yesterday so I painted the chassis this morning and then wired it up this afternoon. It runs quite well but it’s quite light on its feet at the moment hence the nudge needed in the video. I’ll fit tender pickups as well just to be on the safe side.

 

I’ve made good progress with the body and the basic shell is complete. I’m glad they give you two cabs in the kits because it meant I could practice on one. The cab on the model isn’t perfect but I’m pleased with it.

 

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The engine is ready for painting and yesterday I started on the tender. It’s certainly improving my bending skills. I think, so far, only 3 pieces haven’t required bending or forming! The right hand rear corner bend isn’t great but every time I attempted to adjust the curve it followed the previous bend. In then end I hammered it flat and started again. It made an improvement but it’s not perfect. From 3’ away I think it will look ok.

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It’s still quite messy here but nothing a session with files and a fibre glass pencil won’t cure.

 

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Phew - the flare is almost done! I was dreading the flare as the sides and back are all combined on one piece that you bend and then fill in at the corners. I tried Jonathan Wealleans’ method first which is to tape the flare to 1/8 rod and then tape hard rubber onto the flare. Then squeeze it in a vice. Either the brass or the rubber (or, probably, both) I was using was too soft as the flare curved at the ends but not in then middle so I resorted to using a piece of 2mm steel rod and a small hammer to form the flare.

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The tank had to be extended at the front as after 1903 the tenders were built with the coal plate in front of the tool boxes and tenders built pre-1903 were modified identically. I used some scrap etch. 

 

The tender for my engine (4361) was part of tender order 13, I think, and as such was a ‘backender’, i.e. the brake gear was reversed with the cylinder at the rear and the shoes in front of the wheels. I drilled new holes in the chassis and had to cut the pull rods in half as they need to be outside the wheels between the front and middle axles but inside the wheels between the middle and rear axles. My tender should have a scoop but as I only realised this after I’d assembled the chassis I’m not sure if I’ll include it (one of the spacers has to be put in a different slot depending on whether you’re using the scoop or not). As the tender is a 3670 gallon (3640 with the scoop fitted) vehicle, I might model the well tank between the frames; it’s certainly visible in photos.

 

Who knew tenders could be such a minefield?

 

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Who knew tenders could be such a minefield?

 

Anyone who's taken the time to study them.  I sometimes wonder whether even Malcolm Crawley would recommend blissful ignorance after the years he spent researching his book and the enormous holes which nonetheless still remain in the collective knowledge.  Kudos to you for making the effort, though.

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I’ve noticed that on TW’s model he built for Grantham his tender is wrong so I guess even he is happy to live in blissful ignorance of the shortcomings of his model. As I had a pretty decent photo of 4361 I thought I ought to modify the kit accordingly. It’s a shame that in the photo the tender is covered in a huge heap of coal, making it impossible to tell which type of filler and dome it had. In that respect I had to guess and squint at the photo trying to make out the mushroom vents.

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Almost ready for paint now. Just needs a good clean up with a fibre glass pencil once my refills arrive.

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As I mentioned earlier, I fitted a well tank between the frames from scraps of plasticard. I didn’t fit the scoop in the end but I will add pickups to the tender.

 

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