DLT's SR Locos - Lord Nelson Craftsman Kit

[DLT]

Slotting it all together it looks like this

 

 

 

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[gz3xzf]

Dave

The finish of your work never ceases to amaze me, if I didn't know it was 4mm/ft I would expect it to be a bigger scale.

Keep up the good work, it inspires me to do better in future.

[Blandford1969]

On 28/02/2021 at 21:30, DLT said:

Current task is finishing Jack Benson's DJH 0395 class.  Then less said about the kit the better, but what has been done so far is a very nice joint effort by Jack and Captain Kernow.

My job is to finish the detailing and paint it as 30581.  Here it is with boiler-top injector pipework and handrails added:

 

Still various bits to add.

Your building is always inspirational and such a brilliant help when you are looking to model the same class to see the things you have improved. My apologies for going back to an old post. Is this dome tall or short Adams dome.? I have the remains of a DJH 0395 which will become 30566, but cannot find any information on which dome went on which engine. 

[DLT]

5 hours ago, Blandford1969 said:

Your building is always inspirational and such a brilliant help when you are looking to model the same class to see the things you have improved. My apologies for going back to an old post. Is this dome tall or short Adams dome.? I have the remains of a DJH 0395 which will become 30566, but cannot find any information on which dome went on which engine. 

 

Thanks very much for your kind comments! 

Its best to rely on photos for such details, I have four photos of 30566 (all BR period) and all show the shorter dome

I will PM you.

 

Cheers, Dave.

[DLT]

6 hours ago, gz3xzf said:

Dave

The finish of your work never ceases to amaze me, if I didn't know it was 4mm/ft I would expect it to be a bigger scale.

Keep up the good work, it inspires me to do better in future.

 

Thanks very much Bryan, it REALLY helps when you have a good kit to start with!

[Nick C]

The latest South Western Circular has an article on the differences between the different batches of G6. It seems they really are a minefield, as the later Drummond locos had second-hand boilers from new, and so had various differences to cope with these - including a different wheelbase on one batch...

[DLT]

Hi Nic,

Yes indeed, I've just received my circular, and as you say, its a minefield!

However, our target loco is 258, from the original Adams batch, and during our period appears to have carried a standard Adams boiler.

My apologies for lack of updated recently, but I'm waiting for add-on parts, and we are not going to be able to finish it before Highlevel gets back into action.  And even then I guess he will have a massive backlog of orders

Cheers, Dave.

 

[DLT]

Three Chimneys!  (No, not The Railway Children)  At last some of the add-on parts are arriving.  First is a turned brass chimney for an O2 from PDK.

Here it is compared to the chimney supplied in the kit (centre) and one from a Finecast O2 (left)  Found a couple more in the spares box, but they didn't make the cut.

 

 

Just waiting for a backhead from Phoenix Precision and I can get on and finish the bodywork.

 

Cheers, Dave.

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[DLT]

It didn't take much thought to decide on the turned brass chimney, so here's the whole thing hanging together.

 

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[DLT]

At last all the extra parts have arrived.  The boiler backhead is from Phoenix Precision, and Is an LNER design for a B1 (I think).

Left to right are the original, cut and filed down to Victorian tank engine proportions, and some add on parts.

 

The regulator handle is a bit of brass strip (etch waste) and brass wire; firebox doors are a handle assembly (cast brass) from PDK and and a thin square of brass sheet.

Its not prototypically correct, but it "looks the part"

 

And how it looks in the cab interior.  Reversing lever still needed.

 

Moments after these photos were taken, the regulator handle was swallowed by the carpet monster....

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[DLT]

21 hours ago, DLT said:

Moments after these photos were taken, the regulator handle was swallowed by the carpet monster....

 

By an amazing stroke of luck (or indigestion) the Carpet Monster regurgitated the regulator handle.  BEFORE I made another one....

[DLT]

At long last, some progress to show! 

 

 

Even with a small and straightforward looking loco, there is a lot of detail to add.  Vac and steam heat pipes are brass castings, from Gibson and Branchlines.

 

 

The reversing lever (Blue-Tacked in place for the photo) is a few scraps of brass and a lever left over from a brass signalbox kit.  Possibly Churchward Models.

 

You don't have to build many kits before you acquire quite a scrapbox, I never throw anything away!

 

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[DLT]

All painted and ready for lettering etc, although I seem to be having a run of bad luck here.  Opened a new pack of Araldite and as I squeezed the hardener, the tube split and squirted all over my hand and the bench.

Fortunately it didn't go anywhere near the model: but I managed to knock over a pot full of small parts, several of which headed floor-wards...

Amazingly I found them all!

[DLT]

Latest progress:

 

 

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[hayfield]

DLT

 

Superb piece of modelling, why has this kit not been reintroduced ?

Edited July 27, 2021 by hayfield

[DLT]

11 hours ago, hayfield said:

DLT

 

Superb piece of modelling, why has this kit not been reintroduced ?

 

Search me!

[N15class]

17 hours ago, hayfield said:

why has this kit not been reintroduced ?

Probably not a good seller, is the O2 still produced?, I have a feeling he used the same body for both the G6 and O2, which if I recall was not right for either. Trouble is they both look very similar, and to be honest not many would of noticed. I built the G6 many moons ago, just wish the gearbox was not included, I could never get on with Alan's plastic one.

[Guest Jack Benson]

9 hours ago, N15class said:

Probably not a good seller, is the O2 still produced?, I have a feeling he used the same body for both the G6 and O2, which if I recall was not right for either. Trouble is they both look very similar, and to be honest not many would of noticed. I built the G6 many moons ago, just wish the gearbox was not included, I could never get on with Alan's plastic one.

I think you will find that the G6 is a Connoisseur Kit by Jim Mcgeown not AG

 

StaySafe

 

 

[DLT]

Edited September 7, 2022 by DLT

[N15class]

On 28/07/2021 at 08:39, Jack Benson said:

I think you will find that the G6 is a Connoisseur Kit by Jim Mcgeown not AG

 

I should of realised, thanks for the reminder.

[Dunsignalling]

On 28/07/2021 at 03:09, N15class said:

Probably not a good seller, is the O2 still produced?, I have a feeling he used the same body for both the G6 and O2, which if I recall was not right for either. Trouble is they both look very similar, and to be honest not many would of noticed. I built the G6 many moons ago, just wish the gearbox was not included, I could never get on with Alan's plastic one.

A very detailed article in the current issue of the South Western Circular deals with most of the myriad variations in the G6 class, of which the Drummond era builds re-used boilers from various withdrawn Beattie 2-4-0s, with the (new) smokebox sizes varied to keep the overall length similar. 

 

It also mentions variations in frame length and wheelbase within the G6 class and many of the subsequent boiler changes that occurred when old ones wore out....

 

I formed a distinct impression that at some times, some of the G6s might have resembled some of the O2s more closely than they did some other G6s! 

 

John

[Pierview]

Not up to DLT's exquisite modelling standard but here is my attempt at 30258  from a few years ago. I had been waiting forever for either the Falcon Brass or Alan Gibson kits to reappear on the market and I was unaware of the existence of the Connoisseur kit. Eventually I brewed my own G6 using an SEF O2 kit, which required a couple of small modifications , including shortening the footplate length and raising the cab height. Fortunately the G6 frame set was still available from Alan Gibson which I built and fitted with Gibson wheels, high level gearbox and Mashima motor. Certainly far from perfect but a massive improvement on its predecessor, which was the inaccurate old Wills kit on a HD chassis.  

Barry

 

 

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[Blandford1969]

4 hours ago, Pierview said:

. I had been waiting forever for either the Falcon Brass or Alan Gibson kits to reappear

 

 

There is currently one on eBay at the moment  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324729832777?hash=item4b9b680549:g:snkAAOSwZUFhAAyV

[Tony Teague]

Well whilst we are posting comparative G6's, here's mine built for me almost 15 years ago from the Alan Gibson kit by Chris Phillips:

 

 

A nice little model but perhaps showing the age of it's origins.

 

Tony

[DLT]

I think I've gone as far as I can with this model for the time being.  High Level's new website is now "Live at Last" (Err, wasn't that an album title...?) and taking online orders.  The drive will be my current favourite, a 1320 motor and Roadrunner-Plus gearbox, but goodness only knows how long it will take Chris to work through his backlog.  I can't make any progress with the chassis until the drive is ready, as I build the pickups etc around it.

So the body is fully painted, but not yet weathered.

 

 

I'm really pleased with the cab interior, especially as there was nothing in the kit.  The gauges are overscale, made from brass washers with the black paint polished off and the middle filled with white.  However, as the last picture shows, they are almost invisible with the roof on.

 

 

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