SR71 Overspill bench - Hudswell Clarke - Peckett - Barclay

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I seem to have taken a break from kit building recently and picked this up which I started over a year ago. I thought I'd start a thread away from my kit building thread (link below) for RTR activities.

 

This evening I finally finished lining my first Hornby Peckett with HMRS transfers. Next laquer and then weathering to hide the wobbly bits.

 

 

 

Edited November 14, 2020 by SR71

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Bit of weathering this week now that lining is done. Nothing like a photo to show where you've got more work to do! copper chimney is yet to be dealt with.

 

 

Edited September 12, 2020 by SR71
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A bit more weathering, still not quite right but getting there. Nameplates on (one side at least)!

 

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Finished weathering (for now). Some final pictures before I move onto something else. Weathered with a little bit of artists acrylics but mostly weathering pencils.

 

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8 minutes ago, SR71 said:

Finished weathering (for now). Some final pictures before I move onto something else. Weathered with a little bit of artists acrylics but mostly weathering pencils.

 

 

 

 

Good job there.  The subtle weathering on the accompanying 16T mineral wagons in your photos looks spot on to my eye too.  

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3 hours ago, 4630 said:

 

 

Good job there.  The subtle weathering on the accompanying 16T mineral wagons in your photos looks spot on to my eye too.  

 

Thanks 4630. My mineral wagons photo ok but are a bit flat in real life. I've got some ideas to make future ones look less like a painted back scene.

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With Peter the Peckett done for now I've picked up my next projects. One started a while ago and one just recently. Not much to report other than many hours trying to get the bodies to fit over the chassis. I've probably got 3-4hrs in each fettling them just to do this and, as you can see, they still stubbornly refuses to go the last mm. The 0-4-0 needs more taken out of the tank to clear the motor top but the 0-6-0 I've been working on tonight has me beat for now. I cannot see where it is catching.

 

 

Hopefully leaving it and going to bed will generate some ideas.

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Well it's been bugging me all day and after work I managed another hour of scraping. Despite it looking like it cleared the callipers showed I had another 0.8mm to remove before the tanks would clear the motor housing/boiler representation. It's better but still not right;

 

 

I'm trying to be selective where I remove material but at this rate I will stick an LED inside and use it as a lantern for Halloween.

 

 

The point of no return is relieving the chassis but that's something I really don't want to start doing at the moment...

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After several nights sleep, and contacting the supplier, this has now ceased to be my halloween nightmare and may yet become a bonfire night cracker. After getting the callipers out and measuring in multiple places I realised I'd got the sticking point wrong. Repositioning the wiring of the DCC blank inside and careful trimming in and around the smokebox and it now sits right.

 

 

3D prints are new to me so I'm learning as I go but I will persevere. The 0-4-0 is still as it was though I have ordered some bits for it now. Next for both will be scratching some injectors. which are very prominant on the prototype.

 

Some here https://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/55/McAlpine.htm second pic down.

 

 

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So more on the Italia today. Common with all 3D kits the cab roof is somewhat over scale as supplied. Not the suppliers fault but limitations of the medium. Better to have a complete kit that you can edit than a 'kit' in which it's only 50% there. I fancied some brass practice.

 

I laid masking tape on the roof from the kit, trimmed, and transferred the tape to brass sheet. Once cut I rolled it round a paint jar;

 

 

All the pictures I have seen show the cab roof edges bent up to act as a drain channel. Initial bends here but it's also good if I want to enter it in BRISCA Super Stox.

 

 

Finally the bends filed down

 

Pleasant few hours, and I'm pleased with the result.

 

 

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So a wet and miserable day. Good time to get on with the Hudswells no?

 

Well yes but for various reasons I didn't feel confident doing any of the next tasks on those so I decided to do something else that can go in the bin if it was no good. As it happens, so far, it's gone ok.

 

I've had a hattons Barclay for a while and always thought I'd like to try one of the home built bunkers I've seen in a number of pictures on various industrial 0-4-0's. I had some very thin copper sheet that I thought might replicate the rough and ready nature of many of these.

 

 

I cut and folded it out of the sheet which was rolled in storage so a pain to work with until I had some folds. I wanted to use it though because it already had a battered appearence. The pictures are just after I annealed it at which pont it settled ito the shape I was after.

 

 

I soldered a bit of nickel silver fret in the back to stiffen it up.

 

Balanced in place on the engine. Quitting while I am ahead for today!

 

 

 

 

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I've soldered on some retaining tabs now. Only there for appearence, I'm not actually sure how it will attach at this point.

 

Next step is a good clean and then paint. I'm never going to manage weathering as good as the bloom on the copper so I had some fun with filters too;

 

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I try to post regularly - I find it helps me with my motivation even if no one is reading it - but the last few weeks I haven't felt I produced anything postable.

 

Tonight I determined to post something!

 

I've painted the Barclay bunker and now need to weather it and the rest of the engine before I attach it permanently. I will be going for late 60's well used condition. I saw (but now can't find) pictures where the idea of safety was coming in so painting key parts yellow but they hadn't arrived at wasp stripes yet and that's the inspiration.

 

 

I've also been working on the 0-4-0 Hudswell contractor.

 

 

If it works out the excellent photo on the link below should give a pretty substantial clue of what I'm going for. The left right are Mk2 finished (hopefully) centre is Mk1 in progress.

 

https://imageleicestershire.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&i=8456&WINID=1606936797808#.X8gI2rPgphF

 

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I've been finishing off the Barclay over the last few days. As ever close ups do it no favours as does my phone's 'intelligent' photo taking. In trying to make sense of the weathering it skews the colour balance such that it can't be recovered. I need to finish the crew but for that I need more paint so for now it will go on the shelf. I may weather it more when it comes apart again to fit them.

 

 

I wanted to pop the glazing out the rear cab sheet but it seems to be well stuck, again something for when the crew go in.

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Having focused on other things since early Dec i've returned to the Hudswells in the last few weeks. Namely the 0-4-0 contractor. Last night was the first chance to balance parts in place. There is much fettling and more detailing to do but it's starting to come together.

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In the last post you can see I'd taken against the conical safety valve cover and removed it. This necessitated making a replacement as the ones from my spares box were all vastly out of scale. Just finished this evening out of tube and sheet;

 

Edited March 12, 2021 by SR71
Terrible spelling

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Well the job that has been taunting me for, as it turns out from the last post on this thread, for over 2 years, has been done... And it went well. Why was I worried?

 

 

 

Cab roof and rear sheet joined!

 

 

Edited August 24, 2023 by SR71
many errors

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Bunker (far side) now also done. And injector near side fitted up.

 

 

I need to find out what other bits I made to fit. Had yet another piece crack off the body though. I'm beginning to think that I might just as well do all of it in brass... I'm just not there yet though. That chimney is bothering me.