vindictive Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 im currently in the process of building a north eastern kits J73 in 4mm scale, my own personal preference is in the BR period and I find a lot of the kits on the market don't tend to cover the variations in smoke box doors. am I the only one to have found this? I cant fault Arthurs kit as its very good and he is very helpful with and questions or need ive had but his kits are generally geared up for modelling the locos in their earlier states. and with other kits too ive found that not all the variations are covered. my wish has been to build my model with the final more curved variation of the smokebox door but I havnt been able to find anyone who does a casting. so because of that I asked my boss if I could fiddle with my machine at work in my own time and make my own and these are the results from todays efforts. has anyone else had similar issues with being able to do all of the variations in kits? David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 To be honest, there is a gap in the market for replacement accurate smokebox doors. 247 Developments does sell some doors, as does AGW, but that's really all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrushVeteran Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Graeme King does some nice LNER replacement smokebox doors in resin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ArthurK Posted April 22, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 22, 2016 My range covers most of the post 1900 NER smokebox doors starting with the smallest on the J71/J72 through those on 4' 3", 4' 6" and 5' 0" boilers. It does include one LNER profile door for 5'0" (D20 & A6). More of these replacement doors will be added when the Q7 comes into production. Not all of these later doors had visible rivets and indeed some of the NER doors acquired mushrom rivets in their later days. ArthurK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindictive Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 managed to get my casting pattern finished that will suit j21,j25,j73,j77,n8/9 and n10. that's what I can think of off the top of my head. maybe not the best pattern ever but im quite pleased to say its the first ive ever done. lets just hope it casts well! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micklner Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Dave Bradwell does Smokebox doors and other castings from his kits B1, J27, Q6 and others. http://traders.scalefour.org/DaveBradwell/castings/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindictive Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 Yeah I have a few of the bradwell ones for various kits but they are all a large diamitee unfortunately. Shame because they are very nice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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