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[Tony Wright]

'Flushed with success' at today's panning shots of Hornby's locos, I thought I'd try a few more with some of my latest locos.....................

 

 

An interesting comparison with 60008 (both painted by Ian Rathbone).

 

 

I built both these A4s from SEF kits. This one was painted by Geoff Haynes.

 

 

Another of my SEF builds, this one painted by Geoff Haynes. 

 

Another interesting comparison with Hornby's A3s.

 

 

And the latest (Jesse-donated) V2. Repainted by me, on top of a new set of Comet frames and weathered by Geoff Haynes (who also lined the valances). 

 

 

Also weathered by Geoff.

 

I think this is the most 'exciting' model railway photograph I've ever taken!

 

 

 

 

Edited May 18, 2021 by Tony Wright
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[Chuffer Davies]

3 hours ago, Roger Sunderland said:

Many thanks Frank . This does help but I was also interested in how Tony removes either part or all of the wheel spring, and whether the pickups are fitted before the brake gear. I’m sure there were photos of a recent black 5 build but I cannot find them.

Hi Roger,

and of course there is my alternate approach which avoids pickups getting tangled with brake gear and spring hangers.....  Might be worth a second look?

Frank

[geoff west]

22 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

With visitors now allowed, two dear friends popped round today to operate Little Bytham; the first time it's been fully-run for over six months.

 

Needless to say, the trainset performed faultlessly. We didn't, but so what?

 

Thanks Geoff; thanks George. 

Thanks Tony, 

A most enjoyable day. Good to see you and Mo again, and George of course.

 

Geoff.

[Theakerr]

Here in Canada, we have just entered the three week dash to get yard-work done before the six weeks of summer start.   So for model railways only minor projects tend to be undertaken and last night I pulled out one that has been sitting around for t least 10 (15?) years - a Bachmann J38 that never ran very well.  I had remembered some time back someone had posted, I think on the this thread, that poor running of a split Bachmann chassis loco was significantly improved by adding pick-ups and having some of the trusty DCC Concepts pick-up around I decided to fit them.  After removal of some plastic chassis detail that cannot be seen, they dropped in as though they were made to fit and can hardly be seen even before painting.  Screwed directly to the plastic chassis keeper plate, what a difference in running and cheap.   Next challenge is to add some sort of bushing and spacer washers to the centre driver which move around like it has drunk a full bottle of Stolichnaya. 

Should have added that I have converted two other with new chassis and one with A DJH gearbox and another with a SE Finecast gearbox (Thanks Tony & Finecast).  For this i just wanted to see what I could do on the cheap and it should be applicable to other poor running split chassis Bachmann Locos since I have at least one B1

Edited May 18, 2021 by Theakerr
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[Tony Wright]

41 minutes ago, Theakerr said:

Here in Canada, we have just entered the three week dash to get yard-work done before the six weeks of summer start.   So for model railways only minor projects tend to be undertaken and last night I pulled out one that has been sitting around for t least 10 (15?) years - a Bachmann J38 that never ran very well.  I had remembered some time back someone had posted, I think on the this thread, that poor running of a split Bachmann chassis loco was significantly improved by adding pick-ups and having some of the trusty DCC Concepts pick-up around I decided to fit them.  After removal of some plastic chassis detail that cannot be seen, they dropped in as though they were made to fit and can hardly be seen even before painting.  Screwed directly to the plastic chassis keeper plate, what a difference in running and cheap.   Next challenge is to add some sort of bushing and spacer washers to the centre driver which move around like it has drunk a full bottle of Stolichnaya. 

An ingenious solution for sorting out the running of a J39..........

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Barry Ten]

About two years ago I made a start on a short rake of Ratio Midland Clerestory coaches. After glazing them, adding transfers (HMRS methfix) and couplings, I'm finally at the point where they can be run in a train, albeit with some work still to do.

 

One of the outstanding tasks is sorting out ride-height differences between the coaches. The Ratio bogie design doesn't really allow for removal or adjustment once it's fitted, so I'm minded to rework them to be more like conventional kit bogies, with a nut and bolt mounting. The roofs are loose at the moment to allow for final fitting of passengers and so on. In the end they'll be very lightly glued in place to allow for removal in emergencies. As the kits are all-plastic, it's a bit tricky to come up with mounting solutions.

 

The Bachmann L&Y loco has been allowed out of its box for a treat.

 

 

[Compound2632]

8 minutes ago, Barry Ten said:

About two years ago I made a start on a short rake of Ratio Midland Clerestory coaches. After glazing them, adding transfers (HMRS methfix) and couplings, I'm finally at the point where they can be run in a train, albeit with some work still to do.

 

The Bachmann L&Y loco has been allowed out of its box for a treat.

 

 

Those are very nicely done. I wish I was lining out to your standard. I do hope you will forgive me if I am pernickety on two points: ends should be red and buffers should be long. What date are you aiming for?

[PupCam]

5 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Also weathered by Geoff.

 

I think this is the most 'exciting' model railway photograph I've ever taken!

DELTIC in action looks fantastic - that weathering is sublime!

 

[Tony Wright]

5 minutes ago, PupCam said:

DELTIC in action looks fantastic - that weathering is sublime!

 

An excellent Bachmann model at source and wonderful Haynes' weathering.

 

A pretty good combination, I'd say.

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Barry Ten]

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Those are very nicely done. I wish I was lining out to your standard. I do hope you will forgive me if I am pernickety on two points: ends should be red and buffers should be long. What date are you aiming for?

 

Many thanks, Stephen. I'm suppose I'm aiming for somewhere around the early-mid 20s when a rake of these might plausibly be mingled with S&D blue carriages, but I confess I'm really not all that clued up on them. I seem to remember that the kits include two lengths of buffers but I kept them short so that I could couple the vehicles reasonably close together.

 

The lining is really only acceptable from normal viewing distance but I hope to get better with time. Ultimately I have eight etched S&D coaches to do.

[Compound2632]

2 minutes ago, Barry Ten said:

I seem to remember that the kits include two lengths of buffers but I kept them short so that I could couple the vehicles reasonably close together.

 

Slaters still sell the sprung buffers from their Midland 6-wheelers as a separate item, 4912. They are a good match. The Ratio underframe moulding includes long and short buffers; the short buffers are appropriate for the Bain suburbans (excepting the brake ends). The Ratio clerestories pretty much represent early-mid 20s condition, with the door toplights replaced by ventilators, single set of steps at each end, etc. The section of roof below the rainstrip was almost certainly painted black and varnished, as in Midland days. In the early 30s, lower stepboards were removed, except on the bogie at the brake end. 

[Woodcock29]

2 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

An ingenious solution for sorting out the running of a J39..........

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

I added tender pickups to one of my Bachmann J39s and that sorted it. The others I have are in their boxes as there's no room on the layout given I prefer to run my large (and ever expanding) variety of kit built locos, so I've never bothered with the others!

Andrew

[Tony Wright]

7 hours ago, Woodcock29 said:

I added tender pickups to one of my Bachmann J39s and that sorted it. The others I have are in their boxes as there's no room on the layout given I prefer to run my large (and ever expanding) variety of kit built locos, so I've never bothered with the others!

Andrew

Good morning Andrew,

 

'The others I have are in their boxes as there's no room on the layout given I prefer to run my large (and ever expanding) variety of kit built locos, so I've never bothered with the others!'

 

I think that's true of many who build their own locomotives. It's certainly the case with me. Despite the excellence of today's RTR locos (though the Bachmann J39's mechanism isn't the best now), even though I spend a fair amount of time detailing/altering/renumbering/renaming/weathering them (and writing about it), the end results are hardly ever used and spend their subsequent existences in boxes or drawers; so much so that I sell many on! 

 

I know when visitors come (and, thankfully, they're returning), when LB is operated it's almost always completely with locos I've built. That's not to say they're better than RTR equivalents (though they do pull more); in some cases (many?) they're probably not (my antiquated scratch-built O1 compared with Hornby's modified one, for instance), but they all have a personal story I can tell.

 

Yes, I can tell the tale of how I altered an RTR loco, but it's not the same in my view. 

 

Is it arrogance? Is it pomposity? However, I always make sure it's made clear if the locos I've built have been painted/weathered by someone else. That is absolutely vital to the process.

 

Somehow the modified RTR ones don't have the same 'appeal'. At least not to me.

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

[davidw]

18 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Apparently Hornby is delighted with my modifications/detailing/renumbering/renaming/weathering its locos. So much so that my images will be used by the firm...........

 

Here's a selection.................

 

 

Altered/detailed by me and a complete repaint by Ian Rathbone.

 

A pity about the slidebars being inclined in the wrong direction.

 

 

Just scale 'plates added, and weathered by me. 

 

I no longer own this A4.

 

 

Similarly with 60032, this one renumbered/renamed.

 

 

And 60017.

 

The new owners of 60018, 60032 and 60017 are very happy with them.

 

 

Detailed/renumbered/renamed by me, and weathered by Tom Foster. 

 

 

Detailed/altered by me, and weathered by Tom Wright. 

 

 

The subject of my article in the next BRM. 

 

 

 

 

Detailed/renumbered/renamed by me, and weathered by Tom Wright.

 

 

And a B1. Detailed/renumbered by me, and weathered by Tom Foster.

 

 

Finally an O1. Detailed/renumbered/weathered by me. 

 

 

I think what these images show is how (with just a bit of work) these Hornby RTR locos can make perfectly-acceptable 'layout locos', even though I hardly ever use them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Apparently Hornby is delighted with my modifications/detailing/renumbering/renaming/weathering its locos. So much so that my images will be used by the firm...........

 

Here's a selection.................

 

 

Altered/detailed by me and a complete repaint by Ian Rathbone.

 

A pity about the slidebars being inclined in the wrong direction.

 

 

Just scale 'plates added, and weathered by me. 

 

I no longer own this A4.

 

 

Similarly with 60032, this one renumbered/renamed.

 

 

And 60017.

 

The new owners of 60018, 60032 and 60017 are very happy with them.

 

 

Detailed/renumbered/renamed by me, and weathered by Tom Foster. 

 

 

Detailed/altered by me, and weathered by Tom Wright. 

 

 

The subject of my article in the next BRM. 

 

 

 

 

Detailed/renumbered/renamed by me, and weathered by Tom Wright.

 

 

And a B1. Detailed/renumbered by me, and weathered by Tom Foster.

 

 

Finally an O1. Detailed/renumbered/weathered by me. 

 

 

I think what these images show is how (with just a bit of work) these Hornby RTR locos can make perfectly-acceptable 'layout locos', even though I hardly ever use them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of those shots remind me of M. Mensing's ( I think that's his name) prototype shots. Just what the ECML is all about.

[Clive Mortimore]

I saw this on E-bay and couldn't resist it. It is a Tri-ang Princess converted into a Caprotti Black Five. It isn't the most accurate conversion by far but what appealed to me was someone a long time ago had a go at making a loco he wanted. It was seeing conversions like these in the late 60 and early 70s magazines that inspired me to attempt my own modelling. I could try and improve its appearance but it is going to remain as it is, even if it jumps over the code 100 points  on the running lines of my layout, no way could it manage the station throat's code 70 point work.

 

 

 

 

Next to a Hornby Black Five

Edited May 19, 2021 by Clive Mortimore

[Northmoor]

2 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I saw this on E-bay and couldn't resist it. It is a Tri-ang Princess converted into a Caprotti Black Five. It isn't the most accurate conversion by far but what appealed to me was someone a long time ago had a go at making a loco he wanted. It was seeing conversions like these in the late 60 and early 70s magazines that inspired me to attempt my own modelling. I could try and improve its appearance but it is going to remain as it is, even if it jumps over the code 100 points  on the running lines of my layout, no way could it manage the station throat's code 70 point work.

 

 

 

 

Next to a Hornby Black Five

If I were in your position Clive I'd leave it as is as well.  This is part of railway modelling history, if we all bin these things from our past as "embarrassing", we will erase that history and blur the memories. 

I also keep some Tri-ang,1970s Hornby and Lima stock to remind me of what was current when I was a small boy flicking through catalogues, dreaming.  Many of them, I can remember the long-closed shop I got them from on a family holiday, or how they were a surprise Christmas/Birthday gifts; getting rid of them would be like throwing my childhood in a skip.

There are always suggestions that we should trade in our old models (often in magazines with lots of traders adverts, funnily enough) to buy the newer, better-detailed versions, but where are the memories in the new boxes, because I can never find them?

[Tony Wright]

It's wonderful to have guests visiting Little Bytham again.

 

Today, it was the turn three old friends (two others just showed their faces for a time - all of us distanced, of course!).

 

For much of the time I left them to it, and a great time was had by all. In typical Wright fashion, two were 'castigated' for poor operation, only for me to trump their mistakes in the grandest manner. I set a road incorrectly, then set another road incorrectly, then operated a point underneath a train and then threw the wrong switch! Isn't it great when critics get 'egg on their faces'? 

 

Throughout it all, the trainset performed perfectly.............

 

Thanks Keith, thanks Ray, thanks Sandra, and thanks for your donations to CRUK.  What a great day! 

Edited May 20, 2021 by Tony Wright
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[t-b-g]

7 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I saw this on E-bay and couldn't resist it. It is a Tri-ang Princess converted into a Caprotti Black Five. It isn't the most accurate conversion by far but what appealed to me was someone a long time ago had a go at making a loco he wanted. It was seeing conversions like these in the late 60 and early 70s magazines that inspired me to attempt my own modelling. I could try and improve its appearance but it is going to remain as it is, even if it jumps over the code 100 points  on the running lines of my layout, no way could it manage the station throat's code 70 point work.

 

 

 

 

Next to a Hornby Black Five

 

I chap I knew in Doncaster, Bill Oldroyd, used to do these sorts of conversions. The old Princess would become a Jubilee, a Royal Scot or a Black 5 (and many others) and the A3 became a V2.

 

He wrote a couple, at least, up for the magazines, probably Railway Modeller. The Caprotti Black 5 may well have been one of them.

 

I look at that and wonder if it was one of his.

 

He passed away quite a while ago and I never knew what happened to his models. He had hundreds of locos to a similar standard.

 

He also used to be just about the worst exhibition critic I ever knew. He would come to many shows with a friend and they would stand in front of a layout picking every fault they could find, in loud voices, to each other, so that everybody else could hear. "Do you see that?" "That loco should never have that sort of dome". "That signal wouldn't be there". "That grass is the wrong colour for that time of year." Just about anything they could think of to run down the exhibit. They are the main reason why I have always disliked drawing public attention to things that others have done wrong. A private word is fine but you don't need to tell the world.

 

I hope I am not crossing any taste boundaries but my co-exhibitor once said that they should be wearing a bra because they were nothing but a pair of knockers.

[MikeCW]

7 hours ago, Northmoor said:

If I were in your position Clive I'd leave it as is as well.  This is part of railway modelling history, if we all bin these things from our past as "embarrassing", we will erase that history and blur the memories. 

I also keep some Tri-ang,1970s Hornby and Lima stock to remind me of what was current when I was a small boy flicking through catalogues, dreaming.  Many of them, I can remember the long-closed shop I got them from on a family holiday, or how they were a surprise Christmas/Birthday gifts; getting rid of them would be like throwing my childhood in a skip.

There are always suggestions that we should trade in our old models (often in magazines with lots of traders adverts, funnily enough) to buy the newer, better-detailed versions, but where are the memories in the new boxes, because I can never find them?

One of the by-products of the move from traditional analogue to digital control of layouts, not often discussed, is the occasional loss of such history.  A good friend, now deceased, had a fine layout which represented over 50 years of his participation in the hobby. There were kit-built locomotives and items of rolling stock from the 1960s, some of the former on their second or third chassis.  These rubbed shoulders with modified and detailed  modern proprietary items.  Over the years early H & M controllers had been superseded by ECM Compspeeds.  H & M point motors were still in use but modifications or additions to the layout used more modern twin-coil machines.  Everything was beautifully observed and modelled.  Engagement with that modelling history was one of the attractions of visiting David's layout which was, until his death, under analogue control.

 

Although I have far less investment in such history, my locomotive stock includes kit-builds from Ks, Gem and M & L, proprietary bodies on brass chassis, and even a couple of the much maligned Bachmann split chassis still happily rolling under detailed, painted and weathered bodies. When I contemplated a move to digital control  I knew that, realistically, I would never fit decoders into all these engines.  But I didn't want them to become "shelf queens" as happens to many locomotives as a result of an owner's move to DCC. They are respectable models, they represent considerable investment of time, effort and cash, and are part of my modelling story.  Furthermore, occasional visitors to the layout have said that they appreciate the variety of stock in operation.

 

My answer was to set up my existing layout for both analogue and digital train control. This isn't the place for a lengthy dissertation on how I managed this, although it wasn't that difficult.  The outcome has been that my "historic" locomotive stock continues to operate under analogue control while new additions (or visitors) can be run under digital control. It has worked well for nearly two years.  

[Tony Wright]

12 hours ago, t-b-g said:

 

I chap I knew in Doncaster, Bill Oldroyd, used to do these sorts of conversions. The old Princess would become a Jubilee, a Royal Scot or a Black 5 (and many others) and the A3 became a V2.

 

He wrote a couple, at least, up for the magazines, probably Railway Modeller. The Caprotti Black 5 may well have been one of them.

 

I look at that and wonder if it was one of his.

 

He passed away quite a while ago and I never knew what happened to his models. He had hundreds of locos to a similar standard.

 

He also used to be just about the worst exhibition critic I ever knew. He would come to many shows with a friend and they would stand in front of a layout picking every fault they could find, in loud voices, to each other, so that everybody else could hear. "Do you see that?" "That loco should never have that sort of dome". "That signal wouldn't be there". "That grass is the wrong colour for that time of year." Just about anything they could think of to run down the exhibit. They are the main reason why I have always disliked drawing public attention to things that others have done wrong. A private word is fine but you don't need to tell the world.

 

I hope I am not crossing any taste boundaries but my co-exhibitor once said that they should be wearing a bra because they were nothing but a pair of knockers.

Cross as many 'taste boundaries' as you like Tony,

 

We're in danger (as a society) of eventually not being allowed to say anything in case it 'offends'. 

 

I've had many examples of loud-voiced critics when I've been exhibiting. Those with the loudest voices (and mine is considerably so) often (more often) have the least useful things to say. Those 'in the know' will point something out which they know to be wrong, but in a discreet, personal way. The late George Pring was a great help to the Stoke Summit project in that regard.

 

I suppose I was (still am?) in a privileged position to respond to the 'gob-sh*tes'. I'd merely request I return home with them and be allowed to photograph their peerless (and beyond criticism) creations. Did any of them ever take up the offer? Guess what?

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Tony Wright]

8 hours ago, MikeCW said:

One of the by-products of the move from traditional analogue to digital control of layouts, not often discussed, is the occasional loss of such history.  A good friend, now deceased, had a fine layout which represented over 50 years of his participation in the hobby. There were kit-built locomotives and items of rolling stock from the 1960s, some of the former on their second or third chassis.  These rubbed shoulders with modified and detailed  modern proprietary items.  Over the years early H & M controllers had been superseded by ECM Compspeeds.  H & M point motors were still in use but modifications or additions to the layout used more modern twin-coil machines.  Everything was beautifully observed and modelled.  Engagement with that modelling history was one of the attractions of visiting David's layout which was, until his death, under analogue control.

 

Although I have far less investment in such history, my locomotive stock includes kit-builds from Ks, Gem and M & L, proprietary bodies on brass chassis, and even a couple of the much maligned Bachmann split chassis still happily rolling under detailed, painted and weathered bodies. When I contemplated a move to digital control  I knew that, realistically, I would never fit decoders into all these engines.  But I didn't want them to become "shelf queens" as happens to many locomotives as a result of an owner's move to DCC. They are respectable models, they represent considerable investment of time, effort and cash, and are part of my modelling story.  Furthermore, occasional visitors to the layout have said that they appreciate the variety of stock in operation.

 

My answer was to set up my existing layout for both analogue and digital train control. This isn't the place for a lengthy dissertation on how I managed this, although it wasn't that difficult.  The outcome has been that my "historic" locomotive stock continues to operate under analogue control while new additions (or visitors) can be run under digital control. It has worked well for nearly two years.  

What an interesting post Mike,

 

Thanks for writing it.

 

Though, as is known, I have nothing to do with DCC (nor ever will), but yesterday I had a 'similar' situation regarding old and new models. 

 

With friends enjoying running Little Bytham, I was setting up trains for them, especially those hauled by my latest locomotives (I'm a natural show-off). 

 

 

Seen recently, this is my most-recent A3, observed at speed. I built it from a SE Finecast kit, and Geoff Haynes painted it.

 

This was run yesterday.

 

Immediately afterwards, another A3-hauled express was observed......................

 

 

 

 

This time hauled by a a Wills A3 I built about 40 years ago. I scratch-built a chassis for it, and the painting/weathering is all my work. 

 

About 15 years ago, I replaced the original XO4-style drive with a can/gearbox combo for quieter (if no more-powerful) running. 

 

I chatted to Sandra Orpen about it and she agreed it would be pointless to strip this loco and have it painted by a pro. It still fits well-enough as a 'layout loco' on LB, even though it is showing its age.

 

What it does illustrate is that my building probably hasn't improved at all over the last four decades!

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

[PupCam]

On 19/05/2021 at 07:00, Tony Wright said:

Is it arrogance? Is it pomposity?

 

No Tony, I don't believe it is.  

 

I think it is justifiable pride in having achieved something by one's own efforts and skills and applies to all aspects of life not just  (in your case) building model railway locos, it could be a marvellous piece of art, the creation of a fine garden, (in my case ) the building of a 1/3 scale model of a Sopwith Triplane complete with Vickers machine gun etc etc etc.    As has been said countless times on this thread there is so much to be gained from creating something for yourself; whether that be a light dose of weathering on RTR loco or building from scratch a fine clock (I can recommend the "Clickspring" YouTube channel if clocks etc float your boat).     I have to say, that in my working life job satisfaction generally declined as I did less and less tangible stuff and more and more Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint presentations!  Thankfully that's not an issue these days.

 

Anyway, here's the Triplane and Vickers (hewn from solid bar and sheet material, the corrugated barrel jacket was fun!) presented with a modicum of pride but hopefully no arrogance or pomposity!

 

 

 

9 hours ago, MikeCW said:

Over the years early H & M controllers had been superseded by ECM Compspeeds.

 

Somewhere, buried I have an old Codar controller and inertia module.   Dates back to the late 60's and was, I think, the very first controller to offer such advanced facilities.

 

16 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

We're in danger (as a society) of eventually not being allowed to say anything in case it 'offends'.

 

I fear we are already there, an appalling state of affairs in my opinion.

 

Alan

[LNER4479]

43 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

Anyway, here's the Triplane and Vickers (hewn from solid bar and sheet material, the corrugated barrel jacket was fun!) presented with a modicum of pride but hopefully no arrogance

 

Does it work then? The machine gun, not the aeroplane! Handy device for deterring layout critic g0bsh$tes and any other ne'er-do-wells in the vicinity. 

[PupCam]

4 minutes ago, LNER4479 said:

Does it work then? The machine gun, not the aeroplane! Handy device for deterring layout critic g0bsh$tes and any other ne'er-do-wells in the vicinity. 

 

Not the Mk1 but the Mk2 might  

 

The complete project (technically incomplete - as you can see I still haven't finished it!) has been most educational. I effectively have a complete set of Sopwith drawings for every last bit of the full-size aeroplane to work from and now have a real understanding of its construction.   Indeed I've even given a couple of lectures on the subject with the proceeds being donated to the Shuttleworth Collection.  

 

Similarly, I knew nothing of machine guns and their bits and pieces and whilst I'm still far from knowledgable on the subject you can't help picking up knowledge as you try and work out how to make each bit.

[Barry Ten]

Speaking of machine guns  and planes...

 

My 1/8th P51 is nearly done - just needs the canopy fixing, and a bit of trimming.

 

 

The kit didn't come with guns so I added them out of plastic tube and milliput.

 

Earlier stages of construction:

 

 

Box and plans.

 

 

The wings are pre-shaped foam with a wood lamination. Additional blocks have to be glued on (no soldering) and then profiled.

 

 

A profiled wing, waiting to be joined to its counterpart.

 

 

Fuselage under construction.

 

 

Balsa sheets are wetted and then pulled over the formers to form the top of the fuselage.

 

A mate then took over much of the rest of the project, joining the wings, and adding tail plane, servos etc. The plane then returned to me for final finishing and paint. I added a fully detailed scratchbuilt cockpit interior and seat.

 

 

Some of these pics have been seen before but hopefully the nearly finished item is of interest.

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by Barry Ten