Show us your Pugbashes, Nellieboshes, Desmondifications, Jintysteins

[brumtb]

1 hour ago, RosiesBoss said:

G'day, Halvarras,

 

This project did use part of a Tri-ang saddle tank:

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/167158-gwr-28-“cleobury”-–-ex-cmdplr/

 

Unfortunately, like many other submissions, the images are gone, but here is the unpainted model:

 

And here it is, finished:

 

For those not wanting to scroll through my earlier article, here is the major parts list:

• Chassis from Bachmann AT&SF H0 2-6-0
• Smokebox from Tri-ang “Polly”
• Saddle tank from Tri-ang clockwork 0-6-0ST
• Tank filler from Tri-ang “Polly”
• Lost wax cast dummy leaf springs (very old stock from scrapbox)
• Lost wax cast chimney (Mansfield Models H0 scale NSWGR D50 class chimney)
• Misc. copper and aluminium sheet
•  Tri-ang buffers
• Lost wax cast Ramsbottom safety valves (Mansfield Models H0 scale)
•  Whitemetal whistle & pipes (from scrapbox)
• Handrail knobs
•  0.4mm dia phos bronze wire
•  Clear glazing plastic

Cost of project: A$20.

 

For those wondering, this was a model of a little engine taken over from the Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Light Railway. Similar engines served also in private industry, such as that shown here: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/misc/misc_coll-locos053.htm

 

Happy days!

 

Regards,

 

Rob

That loco is excellent, I really like it.  Making me think!!!

Thanks for showing it.

Tony

 

[Halvarras]

5 hours ago, RosiesBoss said:

G'day, Halvarras,

 

This project did use part of a Tri-ang saddle tank:

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/167158-gwr-28-“cleobury”-–-ex-cmdplr/

 

Unfortunately, like many other submissions, the images are gone, but here is the unpainted model:

 

And here it is, finished:

 

For those not wanting to scroll through my earlier article, here is the major parts list:

• Chassis from Bachmann AT&SF H0 2-6-0
• Smokebox from Tri-ang “Polly”
• Saddle tank from Tri-ang clockwork 0-6-0ST
• Tank filler from Tri-ang “Polly”
• Lost wax cast dummy leaf springs (very old stock from scrapbox)
• Lost wax cast chimney (Mansfield Models H0 scale NSWGR D50 class chimney)
• Misc. copper and aluminium sheet
•  Tri-ang buffers
• Lost wax cast Ramsbottom safety valves (Mansfield Models H0 scale)
•  Whitemetal whistle & pipes (from scrapbox)
• Handrail knobs
•  0.4mm dia phos bronze wire
•  Clear glazing plastic

Cost of project: A$20.

 

For those wondering, this was a model of a little engine taken over from the Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Light Railway. Similar engines served also in private industry, such as that shown here: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/misc/misc_coll-locos053.htm

 

Happy days!

 

Regards,

 

Rob

 

Oh yes, there it is - I recognise the shape!

Inspired piece of modelling, an excellent result from such a random collection of bits 👍!

[41516]

Handsome Nellie upgrade on Hattons, Romford  wheels, cylinders, new chimney, handrails.

 

https://www.hattons.co.uk/1000740/kitbuilt_kb2182_po_freelance_0_4_0t_68195_8195_in_lner_br_black_different_livery_number_on_each_s/stockdetail

 

Edited October 26, 2022 by 41516
photo

[BPC1949]

On 26/10/2022 at 17:13, 41516 said:

Handsome Nellie upgrade on Hattons, Romford  wheels, cylinders, new chimney, handrails.

 

https://www.hattons.co.uk/1000740/kitbuilt_kb2182_po_freelance_0_4_0t_68195_8195_in_lner_br_black_different_livery_number_on_each_s/stockdetail

 

 

I did a similar conversion using bits out of the spares box; she certainly won't be winning any prizes but was a fun little project to do :) 

[Paleopotato09]

I have plans for a Nellie, a little 0-4-2 Bagnall with a pug chassis. 

[Ruston]

As the photos in my posts will be long gone I thought I'd add one of my Nellie conversions again. I seem to have lost photos of the other.

 

0-4-2T, based on a GER design.

[Paleopotato09]

Other projects include a battered Tomy Donald and Douglas I'm converting into mid to late 1800s long boilers. I just need to find a suitable chassis. I'm thinking terriers may be suitable doners

[Sandhole]

On 23/10/2022 at 07:25, RosiesBoss said:

G'day, all,

 

Is this a Jintystein?

 

I have enjoyed modifying Tri-ang/Hornby models for a long time, as detailed in my contribution on 19 Sep 2022 here: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/174446-tri-ang-locomotives/#comment-4945475

 

This model has been assembled from parts of many scrapped models including:

·         Tri-ang Jinty: Diecast main frame

·         Tri-ang Dean Single: Chimney, dome, outside bearings & springs for leading wheels

·         Mainline Dean Goods: tender body plastic mouldings

·         Tri-ang Nellie: coupling rods

·         Hornby Dublo Castle: Driving wheels

·         Airfix 14XX: Safety valve cover

·         Hornby 2721 class 0-6-0PT: Smokebox door

 

Before painting and lettering:

 

After finishing:

 

So, is it a Jintystein?

 

Details of the project may be found here: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/175034-gwr-3232-class-2-4-0-kitbash/

 

Happy modelling!

 

Regards,

Rob

That is a work of art!!!
Chris.

 

[cypherman]

My little Pugstien made over lockdown. Built on a Hornby Pug chassis. Triang hall valve gear, Lima Crab boiler, plasticard and scrap box bits.

[Halvarras]

On 03/10/2021 at 20:41, Halvarras said:

I've just realised that it's been over two months since I mentioned that my revitalised first-ever loco 'Nellie' and its 'new' Dock Shunter mate were ready for painting.........er, I'm embarrassed to admit that they're still ready for painting as I subsequently got somewhat sidetracked (it happens - a lot in my case, but I'm surely not alone in that) but still going down a 4-wheeled path, as it were. I never really saw this coming to be honest, it just sort of.......occurred!!

I know that what I've done is nowhere near the kind of inspired Frankensteinery displayed on here (proper modelling in my view, and fun to boot!) but chopping up my first loco was never on the cards, this is more a detailing exercise, just to see how they turn out. It was also driven by a desire to at least try to put a long-standing collection of parts to good use, if possible, to hopefully avoid them being binned at some point in the increasingly not-so-distant future, if you know what I mean. A pile of these came from a friend about 30 years ago when he went O gauge - thanks Mike, I've been using them on and off ever since!

Anyway, here's 'Nellie' with new lower gearing and the 15mm 15-spoke Romford wheels removed from that slimmed-down Class 06 (which now sports more appropriate 14mm 10-spoke items). I discovered Mike had glued in the crank pins so my intention to re-use Nellie's original coupling rods and screws came to nowt and I had to make up new rods from N gauge rail. Buffers and brake shoes are MTK plastic items and Nellie's side tanks have been stuffed with lead sheet in plasticard boxes. Opening up under the boiler to view the magnet probably wasn't worth the effort! New injector pipes are Peco track pins inserted from below. I did consider outside cylinders and repositioning the body securing screw (I usually solve such a problem but this one defeated me), however I had to draw a line somewhere.......:

 

The Dock Shunter with its Class 06 radiator grille and Millholm brass wheels has had its backside shrunk by half as it now only needs to accommodate a small Bachmann coupling (since this appendage was only required to fit a coupling at that end I'm puzzled as to why Tri-ang didn't simply stretch the superstructure to fit, as IMHO it looks awkward with that big lump hung out the back). The protruding axleboxes were filed back about 1.5mm and new plasticard covers added, punched out with the same leather punch I used for the same purpose in 1968!! The bonnet sides have been modified to remove the grilles nearest the cab and the remaining six replaced with etched parts left over from a Blacksmith Models Syphon G Diag 062 conversion kit - these had their height reduced by one 'slat' and fit perfectly. New engine access doors have been scribed in. The two small side boxes have been deleted too, these only exist as locations for lugs to laterally position the body on the chassis but one was already broken off so I added a new one centrally at the cab end, just ahead of the coupling where a notch for it already exists. MTK buffers again, Oleo this time. Engine exhaust, vent thingy (not convinced.....) and plastic horns (Piko?) from the spares box are not glued in yet. I'm not happy about the narrow windscreens but the use of a motor bogie means such a compromise was inevitable - besides, Deltic drivers coped at 100mph so......! 

 

At this point I should have reached for the paint, but instead (oh dear) took a look at the bits I still had left over, including a scratchbuilt plasticard Barclay body, an 0-4-0 6' WB bushed chassis apparently made from whitemetal sheet, can motor with flywheel, 10-spoke wheels, axles, pins etc and, unfortunately, realised that I could use up almost everything by building a Barclay 0-4-0 shunter. The steps are off a scrap Lima 08 and fly cranks off a Mainline 03. Mike had built the Barclay as an 0-6-0 so I shortened it by 10mm (one engine compartment door) and ended up with a cross between Classes 01 & 06 with a bit of D2400 mixed in. Barclay did build shunters for industrial use, Mike himself was involved in the purchase of a full-sized one which I believe is still resident on the Avon Valley Railway. Admittedly this is a scratchbuild so off-topic, but I did then note that I now had one steam and two diesels, and an 0-4-0 saddle tank would balance things up nicely.........this Dapol Pug had to have new bufferbeams added as the dumb buffers were far too low compared to the Tri-ang products. More MTK buffers - in fact I only realised later that these four models display the four different kinds of plastic buffers MTK produced. I replaced the rainstrips as a chunk was missing, they are very fine and this seemed the easier solution for an industrial loco:

 

So finally, it's time to get painting - liveries? 'Nellie' will have to be blue, I'm currently thinking Dock Shunter also blue and the other two Malachite Green, but I may change my mind at the last moment! Purpose, after all this work, most of which was enjoyable but some of which had me wondering why I started? Well, I have an idea........

And surely I have to name the Barclay 'Mike', so he'll forgive me for taking a saw to it 

 

Phew, just over a year later they're finally done! Bit of a story, got sidetracked yet again onto various other projects all year and trying to coordinate spare time, model readiness and weather conditions for outdoor varnish spraying en masse (Railmatch Satin), all other colours being hand-painted. As pointed out earlier these are more beautification than Franken-butchery, Nellie was my first engine in 1966 and carving her up into something else was never the intention. However, she may have got just a wee bit carried away in the make-up department.........

Blue was always going to be the colour and '7' the number, in the spirit of the original. This is Railmatch British Steel Blue but it looks darker than that on 37501 so I think I must have darkened it at some stage for another purpose - can't remember. I had an unopened Kemco waterslide transfer sheet of orange/black/orange lining which I picked up in the mid-1970s to rework a Tri-ang 'Lord of the Isles' which never happened. So that got used up alongside all of the bits, and is why I scraped away the raised boiler bands. The orange lining along the footplate is half of an orange/black/orange strip. Nellie has given up her plastic MTK buffers for a Lima Class 08 improvement task so now sports a set of Bachmann sprung ones instead! A tad OTT?! The tank vents are dome-headed track nails of uncertain origin and the spectacle plates are Tri-ang Hornby coach bogie rivets turned down in a Dremel (that was 'fun', the brass was much harder than I'd expected.......another of those 'have I bitten off more than I can chew' moments), glazed with material punched out of an X-acto spare knife blade pack using the same ancient leather punch as used for the dock shunter's axle box covers, filed down a bit all round to sit just inside the ring and secured with Johnson's Klear. Bonkers, but effective. Well, I think so! This is first time in maybe three decades that I've done this kind of lining (not much call for it on diesels) and I won't care if I never do it again........in fact I intend to avoid it like the plague!

 

As I'd always intended to do these as a 'matched pair' dock shunter Neville got the same livery treatment. I had an idea of how I wanted to apply the lining before scribing in the new engine room door outlines so left enough space for the upper wrap-around lining to pass above them and under the headlight (a triumph of forward planning, that!) The engine room door handles are formed from those (Bambi?) mini-staples superglued from the rear - as there is no clearance inside the body these had to be snipped off and ground flat with the Dremel - I'm surprised they all survived the attack! The vent thingy stayed put. The four marker lights were drilled out and Lima Class 33 clear plastic lenses inserted (these may have been left-overs from four 33-to-26/27 conversions I did in 1987!) SEF Flushglaze windows added and a black-painted false floor 2.5mm below window height inserted to hide the wiring etc (this is removable in case the glazing ever falls in). I did consider windscreen wipers, OK on the back windows, but the fronts......? If I'd just named him 'Nev' I could have stuck the plates on the cabsides instead of where they are now......

 

Side and underside views of the 'primary' pair - Nellie is showing her white plasticard lead ballast boxes (ooh er missus!) Not much change to Neville's underparts......:

 

Regarding the 'secondary' pair, the Dapol Pug and off-topic scratchbuilt Barclay shunter - I couldn't find the 'before' photo to restore it above - here they are in Precision Paints Malachite Green named Midge and Mike (as promised, Mike!) Mike's whistle came from Nellie's chassis donor. More Bambi staples on display....... Midge employed the last surviving fragment of a sheet of 20thou black plasticard I bought in 1968 (to assist in the conversion of a Tri-ang Class 31 into a Class 47.......don't ask!) - it forms the motor-hiding 'missing' cab side screen on the other side.

 

Ah yes, the nameplates - more old stuff used up. Those on Nellie, Neville and Mike use spare Coopercraft signalbox nameplate backing plates, Midge's are scratchbuilt (and make the loco look even smaller!) All use Coopercraft lettering except Neville as the Ns and Es kept breaking so I had to resort to the remnants of a 1970s Slater's 2mm lettering sprue which luckily still had the correct letters available - the different font makes it look more alloy than brass so silver it had to be.

 

Thanks to this lot my stock of turned brass handrail knobs has been reduced to precisely one! 

[33C]

3 hours ago, Halvarras said:

 

Phew, just over a year later they're finally done! Bit of a story, got sidetracked yet again onto various other projects all year and trying to coordinate spare time, model readiness and weather conditions for outdoor varnish spraying en masse (Railmatch Satin), all other colours being hand-painted. As pointed out earlier these are more beautification than Franken-butchery, Nellie was my first engine in 1966 and carving her up into something else was never the intention. However, she may have got just a wee bit carried away in the make-up department.........

Blue was always going to be the colour and '7' the number, in the spirit of the original. This is Railmatch British Steel Blue but it looks darker than that on 37501 so I think I must have darkened it at some stage for another purpose - can't remember. I had an unopened Kemco waterslide transfer sheet of orange/black/orange lining which I picked up in the mid-1970s to rework a Tri-ang 'Lord of the Isles' which never happened. So that got used up alongside all of the bits, and is why I scraped away the raised boiler bands. The orange lining along the footplate is half of an orange/black/orange strip. Nellie has given up her plastic MTK buffers for a Lima Class 08 improvement task so now sports a set of Bachmann sprung ones instead! A tad OTT?! The tank vents are dome-headed track nails of uncertain origin and the spectacle plates are Tri-ang Hornby coach bogie rivets turned down in a Dremel (that was 'fun', the brass was much harder than I'd expected.......another of those 'have I bitten off more than I can chew' moments), glazed with material punched out of an X-acto spare knife blade pack using the same ancient leather punch as used for the dock shunter's axle box covers, filed down a bit all round to sit just inside the ring and secured with Johnson's Klear. Bonkers, but effective. Well, I think so! This is first time in maybe three decades that I've done this kind of lining (not much call for it on diesels) and I won't care if I never do it again........in fact I intend to avoid it like the plague!

 

As I'd always intended to do these as a 'matched pair' dock shunter Neville got the same livery treatment. I had an idea of how I wanted to apply the lining before scribing in the new engine room door outlines so left enough space for the upper wrap-around lining to pass above them and under the headlight (a triumph of forward planning, that!) The engine room door handles are formed from those (Bambi?) mini-staples superglued from the rear - as there is no clearance inside the body these had to be snipped off and ground flat with the Dremel - I'm surprised they all survived the attack! The vent thingy stayed put. The four marker lights were drilled out and Lima Class 33 clear plastic lenses inserted (these may have been left-overs from four 33-to-26/27 conversions I did in 1987!) SEF Flushglaze windows added and a black-painted false floor 2.5mm below window height inserted to hide the wiring etc (this is removable in case the glazing ever falls in). I did consider windscreen wipers, OK on the back windows, but the fronts......? If I'd just named him 'Nev' I could have stuck the plates on the cabsides instead of where they are now......

 

Side and underside views of the 'primary' pair - Nellie is showing her white plasticard lead ballast boxes (ooh er missus!) Not much change to Neville's underparts......:

 

Regarding the 'secondary' pair, the Dapol Pug and off-topic scratchbuilt Barclay shunter - I couldn't find the 'before' photo to restore it above - here they are in Precision Paints Malachite Green named Midge and Mike (as promised, Mike!) Mike's whistle came from Nellie's chassis donor. More Bambi staples on display....... Midge employed the last surviving fragment of a sheet of 20thou black plasticard I bought in 1968 (to assist in the conversion of a Tri-ang Class 31 into a Class 47.......don't ask!) - it forms the motor-hiding 'missing' cab side screen on the other side.

 

Ah yes, the nameplates - more old stuff used up. Those on Nellie, Neville and Mike use spare Coopercraft signalbox nameplate backing plates, Midge's are scratchbuilt (and make the loco look even smaller!) All use Coopercraft lettering except Neville as the Ns and Es kept breaking so I had to resort to the remnants of a 1970s Slater's 2mm lettering sprue which luckily still had the correct letters available - the different font makes it look more alloy than brass so silver it had to be.

 

Thanks to this lot my stock of turned brass handrail knobs has been reduced to precisely one! 

Very crisp and clean models! 

[Corbs]

10 hours ago, Halvarras said:

 

Phew, just over a year later they're finally done! Bit of a story, got sidetracked yet again onto various other projects all year and trying to coordinate spare time, model readiness and weather conditions for outdoor varnish spraying en masse (Railmatch Satin), all other colours being hand-painted. As pointed out earlier these are more beautification than Franken-butchery, Nellie was my first engine in 1966 and carving her up into something else was never the intention. However, she may have got just a wee bit carried away in the make-up department.........

Blue was always going to be the colour and '7' the number, in the spirit of the original. This is Railmatch British Steel Blue but it looks darker than that on 37501 so I think I must have darkened it at some stage for another purpose - can't remember. I had an unopened Kemco waterslide transfer sheet of orange/black/orange lining which I picked up in the mid-1970s to rework a Tri-ang 'Lord of the Isles' which never happened. So that got used up alongside all of the bits, and is why I scraped away the raised boiler bands. The orange lining along the footplate is half of an orange/black/orange strip. Nellie has given up her plastic MTK buffers for a Lima Class 08 improvement task so now sports a set of Bachmann sprung ones instead! A tad OTT?! The tank vents are dome-headed track nails of uncertain origin and the spectacle plates are Tri-ang Hornby coach bogie rivets turned down in a Dremel (that was 'fun', the brass was much harder than I'd expected.......another of those 'have I bitten off more than I can chew' moments), glazed with material punched out of an X-acto spare knife blade pack using the same ancient leather punch as used for the dock shunter's axle box covers, filed down a bit all round to sit just inside the ring and secured with Johnson's Klear. Bonkers, but effective. Well, I think so! This is first time in maybe three decades that I've done this kind of lining (not much call for it on diesels) and I won't care if I never do it again........in fact I intend to avoid it like the plague!

 

As I'd always intended to do these as a 'matched pair' dock shunter Neville got the same livery treatment. I had an idea of how I wanted to apply the lining before scribing in the new engine room door outlines so left enough space for the upper wrap-around lining to pass above them and under the headlight (a triumph of forward planning, that!) The engine room door handles are formed from those (Bambi?) mini-staples superglued from the rear - as there is no clearance inside the body these had to be snipped off and ground flat with the Dremel - I'm surprised they all survived the attack! The vent thingy stayed put. The four marker lights were drilled out and Lima Class 33 clear plastic lenses inserted (these may have been left-overs from four 33-to-26/27 conversions I did in 1987!) SEF Flushglaze windows added and a black-painted false floor 2.5mm below window height inserted to hide the wiring etc (this is removable in case the glazing ever falls in). I did consider windscreen wipers, OK on the back windows, but the fronts......? If I'd just named him 'Nev' I could have stuck the plates on the cabsides instead of where they are now......

 

Side and underside views of the 'primary' pair - Nellie is showing her white plasticard lead ballast boxes (ooh er missus!) Not much change to Neville's underparts......:

 

Regarding the 'secondary' pair, the Dapol Pug and off-topic scratchbuilt Barclay shunter - I couldn't find the 'before' photo to restore it above - here they are in Precision Paints Malachite Green named Midge and Mike (as promised, Mike!) Mike's whistle came from Nellie's chassis donor. More Bambi staples on display....... Midge employed the last surviving fragment of a sheet of 20thou black plasticard I bought in 1968 (to assist in the conversion of a Tri-ang Class 31 into a Class 47.......don't ask!) - it forms the motor-hiding 'missing' cab side screen on the other side.

 

Ah yes, the nameplates - more old stuff used up. Those on Nellie, Neville and Mike use spare Coopercraft signalbox nameplate backing plates, Midge's are scratchbuilt (and make the loco look even smaller!) All use Coopercraft lettering except Neville as the Ns and Es kept breaking so I had to resort to the remnants of a 1970s Slater's 2mm lettering sprue which luckily still had the correct letters available - the different font makes it look more alloy than brass so silver it had to be.

 

Thanks to this lot my stock of turned brass handrail knobs has been reduced to precisely one! 

 

These are absolutely wonderful. The two blue ones put me in mind of term used by car enthusiasts - 'restomod' - restored and modified at the same time.

[Talltim]

Do these count for this thread?

From this

To this

Bogies are narrowed ones from a Fenfa toy train set I got for a whole 99p

Nominally Sm scale, but as it’s freelance…

Edited November 6, 2022 by Talltim

[Corbs]

2 minutes ago, Talltim said:

Do these count for this thread?

From this

To this

Bogies are narrowed ones from a Fenfa toy train set I got for a whole 99p

Nominally Sm scale, but as it’s freelance…

That's great! I have one of those from my first ever trainset but I think nostalgia prevents me from chopping it around

 

[Player of trains]

On 31/10/2022 at 18:53, Ruston said:

As the photos in my posts will be long gone I thought I'd add one of my Nellie conversions again. I seem to have lost photos of the other.

 

0-4-2T, based on a GER design.

 

Good gravy is this pretty! I recall a similar and just as pretty outside frame 0-4-2t bash? 

[cypherman]

On 05/11/2022 at 21:37, Halvarras said:

 

Phew, just over a year later they're finally done! Bit of a story, got sidetracked yet again onto various other projects all year and trying to coordinate spare time, model readiness and weather conditions for outdoor varnish spraying en masse (Railmatch Satin), all other colours being hand-painted. As pointed out earlier these are more beautification than Franken-butchery, Nellie was my first engine in 1966 and carving her up into something else was never the intention. However, she may have got just a wee bit carried away in the make-up department.........

Blue was always going to be the colour and '7' the number, in the spirit of the original. This is Railmatch British Steel Blue but it looks darker than that on 37501 so I think I must have darkened it at some stage for another purpose - can't remember. I had an unopened Kemco waterslide transfer sheet of orange/black/orange lining which I picked up in the mid-1970s to rework a Tri-ang 'Lord of the Isles' which never happened. So that got used up alongside all of the bits, and is why I scraped away the raised boiler bands. The orange lining along the footplate is half of an orange/black/orange strip. Nellie has given up her plastic MTK buffers for a Lima Class 08 improvement task so now sports a set of Bachmann sprung ones instead! A tad OTT?! The tank vents are dome-headed track nails of uncertain origin and the spectacle plates are Tri-ang Hornby coach bogie rivets turned down in a Dremel (that was 'fun', the brass was much harder than I'd expected.......another of those 'have I bitten off more than I can chew' moments), glazed with material punched out of an X-acto spare knife blade pack using the same ancient leather punch as used for the dock shunter's axle box covers, filed down a bit all round to sit just inside the ring and secured with Johnson's Klear. Bonkers, but effective. Well, I think so! This is first time in maybe three decades that I've done this kind of lining (not much call for it on diesels) and I won't care if I never do it again........in fact I intend to avoid it like the plague!

 

As I'd always intended to do these as a 'matched pair' dock shunter Neville got the same livery treatment. I had an idea of how I wanted to apply the lining before scribing in the new engine room door outlines so left enough space for the upper wrap-around lining to pass above them and under the headlight (a triumph of forward planning, that!) The engine room door handles are formed from those (Bambi?) mini-staples superglued from the rear - as there is no clearance inside the body these had to be snipped off and ground flat with the Dremel - I'm surprised they all survived the attack! The vent thingy stayed put. The four marker lights were drilled out and Lima Class 33 clear plastic lenses inserted (these may have been left-overs from four 33-to-26/27 conversions I did in 1987!) SEF Flushglaze windows added and a black-painted false floor 2.5mm below window height inserted to hide the wiring etc (this is removable in case the glazing ever falls in). I did consider windscreen wipers, OK on the back windows, but the fronts......? If I'd just named him 'Nev' I could have stuck the plates on the cabsides instead of where they are now......

 

Side and underside views of the 'primary' pair - Nellie is showing her white plasticard lead ballast boxes (ooh er missus!) Not much change to Neville's underparts......:

 

Regarding the 'secondary' pair, the Dapol Pug and off-topic scratchbuilt Barclay shunter - I couldn't find the 'before' photo to restore it above - here they are in Precision Paints Malachite Green named Midge and Mike (as promised, Mike!) Mike's whistle came from Nellie's chassis donor. More Bambi staples on display....... Midge employed the last surviving fragment of a sheet of 20thou black plasticard I bought in 1968 (to assist in the conversion of a Tri-ang Class 31 into a Class 47.......don't ask!) - it forms the motor-hiding 'missing' cab side screen on the other side.

 

Ah yes, the nameplates - more old stuff used up. Those on Nellie, Neville and Mike use spare Coopercraft signalbox nameplate backing plates, Midge's are scratchbuilt (and make the loco look even smaller!) All use Coopercraft lettering except Neville as the Ns and Es kept breaking so I had to resort to the remnants of a 1970s Slater's 2mm lettering sprue which luckily still had the correct letters available - the different font makes it look more alloy than brass so silver it had to be.

 

Thanks to this lot my stock of turned brass handrail knobs has been reduced to precisely one! 

What can one say about these engines. Just Stunning

[John Besley]

On 03/11/2022 at 13:26, cypherman said:

My little Pugstien made over lockdown. Built on a Hornby Pug chassis. Triang hall valve gear, Lima Crab boiler, plasticard and scrap box bits.

 

Any chance of taking the pictures again as it difficult to see as they are rather too dark 

[Dunsignalling]

I tweaked a couple so I could see the model better. Any help?

 

John

[Tofufi]

Thought I'd share a couple from my collection - bought at auction, so I can't lay claim to the conversions.

 

First, a Tri-ang Nellie...

 

 

Chassis and body are shortened and it runs a Mashima motor. Unfortunately the chassis is twisted, so it only sits on three wheels at a time - I'll attempt to rectify this at some point.

 

 

 

Next up, a 'Smokey Joe' modified to represent 30458 Ironside...

 

 

Edited November 16, 2022 by Tofufi

[splodgestudios]

Not sure if this belongs here as it’s a piece of rolling stock and not an engine but I’ll share anyway! 
 

I’ve been working on a representation of W&U Tramway No. 9. A pint sized luggage van. 
 

 

Not quite finished yet but it’s coming along! I had the classic airfix brakevan and what I believe to be an airfix cattle wagon spare (falling apart from a lot I purchased) 

 

Quite happy with the result so far, even if it’s a bit inaccurate 

[sir douglas]

is that Zenigata in your profile pic?

[splodgestudios]

1 hour ago, sir douglas said:

is that Zenigata in your profile pic?

Yes it is! Apart from railways, Lupin the third is a major interest of mine

[AlfaZagato]

For your sake, I hope your building is more competent than Zenigata.

[RedGemAlchemist]

On 18/11/2022 at 12:39, splodgestudios said:

Not sure if this belongs here as it’s a piece of rolling stock and not an engine but I’ll share anyway! 
 

I’ve been working on a representation of W&U Tramway No. 9. A pint sized luggage van. 
 

 

Not quite finished yet but it’s coming along! I had the classic airfix brakevan and what I believe to be an airfix cattle wagon spare (falling apart from a lot I purchased) 

 

Quite happy with the result so far, even if it’s a bit inaccurate 

Delightful! I've been wanting to make something similar myself!

[Sophia NSE]

Wait, this isn't an R1 and it's not grey. Instead it's the first loco of my new shelf layout, set on the Channel Island of Guernsey.

Definitely a Terrier, although there's been a few changes. Most notably the safety valves, clack valves, and cab handrails. A smokebox dart is on order to complete the front end, which also has a replacement smokebox door with wings by Killian Keane to backdate it to an A1. The clack valves came from a warped M7 body and the cab handrails are from the J72 that donated it's safety valves.

Finally the loco colour, which is actually SECR coach crimson. I think it quite suits the Terrier. Eventually it will be lined in a straw colour with the Guernsey crest on its tanks. It will be named after one of the Island's parishes.