A colonial side project

[sir douglas]

I had started project about a year or 2 back but quickly lost interest as the proportions didnt look right so i put aside and didnt get back to it . Now one of the new projects has now come up with problems a few weeks ago and has been side lined. but i instead started another which is going along nicely

 

i have an interest in british built locos all around the world of many gauges. Many months ago i was given a box of various old OO loco bits that came from a member of ailing health and his family started clearing out, this box was left after other members took what they wanted. i have ideas of cobbling the chassis' wheels and motors together into the caricatures of NG locos. this one is a generic mix of tender locos by Beyer Peacock, Kitson, Hunslet, North British and Vulcan  which could be found across India, Australia, Africa and South America, some inspirations to name a few;

- South Africa 5B ex Cape Gov "Karoo" class

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Government_Railways_Karoo_Class_locomotives#/media/File:SAR_Class_5B_723_(4-6-2)_CGR_905.jpg

- SAR class 2C ex Natal gov class A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Class_2C_4-6-2#/media/File:Class_2C_4-6-2.jpg

- SAR class 16A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Class_16A_4-6-2#/media/File:SAR_Class_16A_852_(4-6-2).jpg

- Cordoba rly, Argentina

https://images.app.goo.gl/3wSotVYiqHUDgb7s7https://www.flickr.com/photos/124446949@N06/28217292628

- australia

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im1927v143-p6b.jpg

- Darjeeling C class

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1rMvGMMaQkZCtp9jZnSbZmdgzj5pJP0eNrT2DyYpJksj1Brqd1DRhQMQ9_6llJPwuA

 

i cant remember what the chassis was originally but i had previously tried a 2-6-4 tank with but abandoned that it was a 0-6-0 chassis with the wheelbase reduced by drilling new axle holes and the cylinder were from something like an LMS Princess with the valve chests cut off. now its going to be a 4-6-2 tender which first meant making a new front chassis extension, the new one fitted and the old one below, the knuckles have since bee removed to fit to the new one. the front bogie is an old comet etch with Lima loco wheels which i will eventually turn down the large flanges (photo 13-01-2020)

 

(22-01-2020) a boiler cut from steel tube that was a vacuum cleaner handle (it was salvaged from an already broken and dismantled vacuum last year), by chance it is almost the right diamter for the 3'6" (24.5mm) i want. The firebox is all styrene. just like how i make my o gauge fireboxes, the ends are made up of 2mm with something thinner wrapped around and then the corners are filed down. the tender bogies came from a LNER phosphate wagon from my old layout. the body is held dow by bolts ad captive nuts, one in the firebox and one in the smokebox, the rear nut & bolt also holds the trailing wheel on,

 

The drawing i made and is continuosly being added to and changed as i decide how each bit will be done and how it will look, the tender has since been redrawn on a seperate sheet. in my recent search for reference material i came across the National Archives of Australia website with digitized GA drawings of Tasmanian Gov locos and Tenders in high resolution which helps but i cant see how the front face of the tender should look exactly aprt from the tool boxes and brake column

 

(24-01-2020) tender chassis with knuckles fitted

[sir douglas]

Cladding for smokebox ,boiler bands and cylinders superglued on. Tender body made up of 1mm styrene. before cutting the cab sides, i made the front taller by a foot (7mm), the top half was cut off across the top of the firebox and glued it back on with an extension piece but the spectacle prportions looked ridiculous so a new top half was made. The cometic frames of the trailing wheels have axleboxes