Sophia NSE Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) Just thought I'd bring my bodging out of the pugbash thread and horrify a wider audience This first victim was just a little bit of fun involving a cut down J72 on a Hornby 0-4-0 chassis. Looking at it again I'm wondering if an SECR P class would be possible with another cut down body on a Terrier chassis. I know I could buy a P but that's no fun, right? Anyway, I then got the idea for a light railway in the Weald of Kent and the WKR was born. I wanted a bigger tank engine, like an 0-4-4 for the "heavier" workings. Obvious choice would be the H class. But we don't wanna just buy one, we want to bodge, I mean build one. So step forward victims; a job lot of Hornby Dublo/Wrenn R1 bodies and an Airfix 14xx chassis! Some deep thought and slices with a razor saw got us to this point... And then some hacking of the Airfix chassis and a scratchbuilt bogie got us here... A bit of body filling and fettling of the bogie and a loco is sort of emerging, but what to do about the flared tanks, which the H class doesn't have? Answer; some accidental research which shows that some of the SECR Q class 0-4-4s with flared tanks were rebuilt to Q1s ( no, not that Q1!) with Wainwright boilers. I'm going with my particular example being given a pagoda cab too and being sold to the WKR upon the class withdrawal in 1930. The next logical step would be a coat of primer, but I want to remove the worn paint from the buffer beams. Of course, this isolation business has come about and I don't have anything to hand to remove it Any suggestions for alternative paint removal options would be gratefully received. If you've got this far you probably deserve a medal! Stay tuned for the next instalment and stay safe! Edited April 16, 2020 by Sophia NSE Title changed to something more appropriate 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Moxy Posted April 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Sophia NSE said: The next logical step would be a coat of primer, but I want to remove the worn paint from the buffer beams. Of course, this isolation business has come about and I don't have anything to hand to remove it Any suggestions for alternative paint removal options would be gratefully received. If you have any Dettol in stock, that's my usual paint stripper. just leave it to soak overnight. hope this helps 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 Best we have in the house is some floral scented concentrated disinfectant Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted April 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 4, 2020 3 hours ago, Moxy said: If you have any Dettol in stock, that's my usual paint stripper. just leave it to soak overnight. hope this helps If using Dettol Don’t run it under water after taking it out of the Dettol! coat it in undiluted washing up liquid first before you wash it off in water, otherwise you end up with a sticky gooey mess 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 On 04/04/2020 at 19:21, chuffinghell said: If using Dettol Don’t run it under water after taking it out of the Dettol! coat it in undiluted washing up liquid first before you wash it off in water, otherwise you end up with a sticky gooey mess Now I learn the trick! Thanks for the tip, Chuffinghell! I tried to strip a badly hand painted enamel BR green paint finish on a second hand Class 59 by soaking it overnight in Dettol. I rinsed it in water and it went sticky, so I soaked it again. Rinsed it in water again, and I ended up binning it as the whole body starting melting into a sticky mess! I ended up buying a another replacement body off eBay! Thank God it was a (relatively) cheap Lima loco in the first place, and I got the second body at a bargain price too! At least next time I will be better informed how to go about paint stripping with Dettol. Now, when was the last time I saw Dettol or any other surface cleaning agent on the shelves of my local supermarket?! STAY HOME - STAY SAFE - KEEP MODELLING 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted April 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2020 3 minutes ago, SteveyDee68 said: Now I learn the trick! Thanks for the tip, Chuffinghell! I tried to strip a badly hand painted enamel BR green paint finish on a second hand Class 59 by soaking it overnight in Dettol. I rinsed it in water and it went sticky, so I soaked it again. Rinsed it in water again, and I ended up binning it as the whole body starting melting into a sticky mess! I ended up buying a another replacement body off eBay! Thank God it was a (relatively) cheap Lima loco in the first place, and I got the second body at a bargain price too! At least next time I will be better informed how to go about paint stripping with Dettol. Now, when was the last time I saw Dettol or any other surface cleaning agent on the shelves of my local supermarket?! STAY HOME - STAY SAFE - KEEP MODELLING I learned the hard way too, although I now use something called biostrip 20 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 The fancy fragranced disinfectant has pretty much worked and I'm now working on a pair of smaller nuts and bolts to fix the body to the chassis. The single large fixing was obscured by the bogie which meant I would have to remove it first if I wanted to get the body off. I do have an unmolested R1, seen here with the chimney cap and screw that arrived today. It does seem to have a pronounced upward lean to the running plate ahead of the smokebox though... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 7, 2020 Author Share Posted April 7, 2020 The weather has been nice enough for a coat of primer! I missed the same patch on both sides but haven't done my usual and sprayed it on thick. I added cab doors from plasticard before spraying. I'm rather pleased with how things are going! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 Second coat of primer went on this afternoon. Spring buffers arrived today as well as probably enough coaches to keep the WKR running for a while. 2 each of the brake and composite, which will be sprayed into something far less GWR. Any guesses at which manufacturer made them? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted April 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2020 They look like Graham Farish coaches to me 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cypherman Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Hi Sophie, I would say that they are an old pair of 1970's Grafar coaches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 Haha both of you are correct! Now, how much did I pay for all 4 coaches on that auction site? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted April 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2020 £6 each? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 1 hour ago, chuffinghell said: £6 each? Would that be a decent price then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 Today's achievements are some sanding and another coat of primer as well as opening out the buffer holes to accept the sprung buffers 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted April 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2020 5 hours ago, Sophia NSE said: Would that be a decent price then? I honestly have no idea, it was just a guesstimate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 1 minute ago, chuffinghell said: I honestly have no idea, it was just a guesstimate Fair enough. I paid £4.50 each plus shipping 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Not bad, though the ones I bought a couple of years ago were just under £4 each including postage, so I doubt there's any need to pay silly money for them no matter how 'rare' they may be described! The exception is the Pullmans. The only ones of those that are cheap are the wibbly wobbly cellulose acetate bodied ones. Edited April 10, 2020 by BernardTPM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 10, 2020 Author Share Posted April 10, 2020 Now I just need to decide what colour they should be! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted April 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 10, 2020 7 minutes ago, Sophia NSE said: Now I just need to decide what colour they should be! How about GWR brown and cream 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted April 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 10, 2020 An olive green might be nice? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 10, 2020 Author Share Posted April 10, 2020 1 minute ago, chuffinghell said: How about GWR brown and cream Don't think that would go down well in deepest Kent! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 The Kent & East Sussex Railway used to paint their coaches brown & cream back in the '70s. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted April 10, 2020 Author Share Posted April 10, 2020 14 minutes ago, BernardTPM said: The Kent & East Sussex Railway used to paint their coaches brown & cream back in the '70s. Well that would make things easier. A quick coat of grey on the roofs maybe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 1970s K&ESR in DaveF's photo thread. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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