hartleymartin Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Latest work on the Atlas Diesel conversion. Narrowed the footplate from 63mm down to 56mm (now scale 8ft wide). Also built up the side frames to length. Near enough to the same profile. These will largely be hidden either by reinforcing plats for the buffer plates and/or steps for the shunter. Just new cab, buffing plates, refit mechanism and paint to go. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 Found the old cab, somewhat damaged, in the parts bin. Cut out the sides and I'm thinking of reusing them. Before I get too clever, I did think of making two separate cabs so to masquerade as two locomotives, but I might decide on one as the keeper. Not sure if I can use these cab sides since the doors are 35mm tall and 11mm wide. A bit of a tight squeeze even if the are 1:48 scale. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 "Planot" No. 5 ex-Coney Hill Light Railway with baby brother under construction. No. 5 is 18'6" over headstocks and the newby is 15"0'. I reckon the new cab should keep some family resemblence with No. 5 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 Buffing plates on. Trickier job than I initially thought. Starting to look like a loco now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Fabrication of the cab under way. Something inbetween a Hibberd Planet and a Ruston 48DS or 88DS in design. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Mock up of cab reusing part of the Atlas cab, just for the side windows. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Nice work Martin ! Cheers, Gary. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted July 16, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 16, 2019 It's a critter....an overlay of 10thou plasticard on the buffer beams, embossed with rivet detail from the back, would look good.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 I need more 2mm angle to finish the cab. I thought I had another packet of the stuff, but it was just 2mm strip. Only other question is whether to put a window in the door or not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 Mock up of cab reusing part of the Atlas cab, just for the side windows. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 I'm thinking the next time I get my hands on one of these Atlas diesel mechanisms, I might do a J70/Y6 tram loco body on it. My true love is always with steam locos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 More styrene strips and angle section from the local hobby shop today. Cab is making swift progress. Still pondering wibdows in the cab doors, but now all the detail sections are on I think it would be too much. I'll make a decision once I hit it with a coat of grey primer tomorrow. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 It seems to sit well with my semi-freelance CHG brake van. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 Shot the first two light coats of grey primer. Looks pretty good I think. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertc Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 The little critter looks to be coming along fine Marty. cheers Bob 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 hour ago, robertc said: The little critter looks to be coming along fine Marty. cheers Bob Thanks. I really think that getting a model into primer shows when the ideas have worked well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMR CHRIS Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 The little loco is coming along very nicely Martin it looks like its is a very plausible representation of a small industrial loco 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted October 27, 2019 Author Share Posted October 27, 2019 Critter had a little disaster. I primed it in Tamiya light grey and tried a Humbrol spray can. It needs to go into a bath of plastic-safe paint-remover before anything else can happen. In other news, I bought an Atlas O Gauge "Bobber" Caboose for $5 the other day. Starting to consider what I might do with it. At the moment my thoughts are to do away with the cupola, put some slaters wheels into the underframe, add buffers, couplers and possibly replace the end-platform details. Perhaps something based on one of the Brill Tramway's former horse-drawn carriages: 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 21, 2019 HI, this is just a message to Martin Hartley and all our other friends and RMWebbers in Australia, ans Tasmania, esp NSW and areas affected by the wildfires. We hope you and your dear ones are safe and remain unaffected by the fires at this very worrying time. Also your models and livelihoods are safe too. And that your Govt gets a grip. Any past crimes or misdeeds committed against 7mm scale Atlas, Dapol, Ixion & Minerva models in the cause of Antipodeanising them are forgotten. All the best, guys. Dava 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 Thanks Dava, I am fortunate that my own home is quite safely far from the fires, but several places that I visited in the past few months have been hit hard by this year's bushfire season. The little village of Balmoral in the Southern Highlands was completely destroyed, and I had driven through there not 2 weeks before. The Railway Museum at Thirlmere deployed three bogie water tankers with over 100,000 Litres of water near Buxton, just up the road from Balmoral, for the local Rural Fire Service to use as an emergency supply. A great local initiative, and I had been hoping and praying that they would have no need of it. Sydney has been suffering on and off with some severe smoke hazes which were almost as bad as London Smog just after WW2. Two men from the Horsley Park Rural Fire Service unit (not more than 15 minutes drive from my house) lost two members just before Christmas when a burning tree fell on their Firetruck. Bushfires are a fact of life here in Australia, but these have been the worst since the 2009 Victorian Bushfires - a year when large swathes of the country were either burning or by cruel irony, washed away by floods. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 For those who may be interested, some weeks ago I began work on the KA "Tramcar" Carriage and today the first set of laser-cut parts arrived. A few blunders in the design to fix up, but I could cobble this into a model. There has been sufficient local interest to do a run of these as kits, so I need to improve things before I can sell it as a kit rather than a "kit of parts" Follow the thread on this development here: 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2019 Hi Martin, Good to hear from you and that the only charred wood is on the lasercut coach parts! Happy modelling, Dava 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share Posted December 28, 2019 On 26/12/2019 at 21:23, Dava said: Hi Martin, Good to hear from you and that the only charred wood is on the lasercut coach parts! Happy modelling, Dava Fire seems to be a bit of theme with this model project. There were four prototype KA tramcars. One was sold off to a private railway and lost in a fire in the 1950s. The sole survivor of this class was restored in the 1980s, but lost in the 1993 Parramatta Park arson attack. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 A bit more thread necromancy. 2 years have passed. A certain pestilence has ravaged our lands time and again. Everything I had planned at the start of 2020 was put on indefinite hiatus and most things are dormant. But I now own three Hudswell Clarke locomotives: 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 So what are my plans moving forward with O gauge? Well, I want to purchase a couple of the Manning Wardle K Class and modify them to represent Australian versions, and possibly do an 1860s-1870s era layout based on the Blacktown-Richmond Railway line (near Sydney, Australia). I may also purchase a Slaters GWR Brake 3rd to do a representation of the Easingwold Railway. I am moving more towards just freelancing in 7mm scale. Vaguely Australian-British. It depends largely on what I can obtain easily and what my budget allows. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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