Popular Post KNP Posted March 5 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 5 Sitting, minding her own business, 2776 open cab Pannier sits in the afternoon sun. Waiting for her crew to turn up……unfortunately the wait will be a while as I have run out of crew so have some on order…. So, at the moment just waiting 44 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted March 5 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5 (edited) 10 minutes ago, KNP said: Sitting, minding her own business, 2776 open cab Pannier sits in the afternoon sun. Waiting for her crew to turn up……unfortunately the wait will be a while as I have run out of crew so have some on order…. So, at the moment just waiting A splendid makeover ! Those brake rods make a huge difference - I’ve just looked up the instruction sheet and see they could fit a Bachmann chassis too. Edited March 5 by Limpley Stoker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted March 5 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 5 I wonder if @The Johnster has seen your rather nice 2776. In the absence of new 2721 Class RTR tooling he may be interested in your makeover. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Have looked in the pubs for crew? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 39 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said: A splendid makeover ! Those brake rods make a huge difference - I’ve just looked up the instruction sheet and see they could fit a Bachmann chassis too. I think there is an article in the GW Modelling website on this very subject and there is some work involved to get the two to fit together. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Sweet pea Posted March 5 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5 Hi Kevin the 2776 pannier tank looks great.👍 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishplate Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 1 hour ago, Kevin Johnson said: Hi Kevin the 2776 pannier tank looks great.👍 Agreed. Please could you do some adjacent 'before & after' pics @KNP? 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benbow Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 5 hours ago, KNP said: Sitting, minding her own business, 2776 open cab Pannier sits in the afternoon sun. Waiting for her crew to turn up…… Bert: "Well I'm not taking that thing, no cab...what if it rains?" KNP: "It doesn't rain in Little Muddle" Bert: "Well you can find someone else to drive it because I aint!" 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted March 6 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 6 Long range shot of the viaduct with the auto train posing.... 45 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted March 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 6 A railway within a landscape. Perfect! 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Fair Oak Junction Posted March 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 6 (edited) I never cease to be utterly blown away by your scenic modelling, it's just.....wow! Edited March 6 by Fair Oak Junction 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6 19 hours ago, brushman47544 said: I wonder if @The Johnster has seen your rather nice 2776. In the absence of new 2721 Class RTR tooling he may be interested in your makeover. He has now, nice engine, Kevin. Mine was eventually taken out of service because, despite a good bit of working up and Bachmann 57xx underpinnings, there were too many things that bothered me about the loco. I gave up fairly quickly on the generic Hornby chassis, which I improved considerably but never gave me the slow running I wanted and refused to start smoothly. Other workups were the boiler top furniture, lamp brackets, cast whitemetal buffers, a proper smokebox dart, spectacle plate glazing, real coal, and a Modelu crew. But the Bachmann chassis required a hole for the worm gear at the firehole door, meaning it protruded into the cab a bit. The Crew huddled around it hid it reasonably well, but I know it was there… The Baccy chassis’ wheels were not in line with the Hornby splashers, positioned for the incorrect jintygeneric Hornby axle spacing, and my prototype, 2761 wd TDU 31/03/50, had fluted coupling rods. A photo of this loco at Swindon later that year shows it in 1942-5 austerity black livery, an easy paint job, but with the distinctive ‘Grotesque’ lettering applied by Caerphilly works during that period, which I failed to source anywhere. I never got around to sorting the cab roof, though I did make a canvas weather sheet for her. The deciding factor was the overlong bunker hanging off the back, though, and the chassis went back under it’s donor 57xx, which in the meantime I’d removed the topfeed and plumbing from. Top photo she still has the Hornby chassis, bottom more recent with Baccychas and ragtop, very sporty. The Baccy chassis is much better on this loco despite the fishbelly rods ( some 2721s had these, but not 2761), brake rod detail and a superb runner, and the misalignment with the wheels is not apparent except in a broadside on view. The zoom shot emphasises the bunker droop. Per. Way have still not tidied the sleeper. 2761 is facing the wrong way, South Wales convention was to work smokebox-first up the valley and bunker-first downhill, but the halfcab has been pinched from yard pilot duty at Ogmore Jc for a pickup job to Cwmdimbath. She must have been pretty rough at the end, but a passed fireman/passed cleaner crew are delighted to take her out for a spin, inclement weather notwithstanding. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted March 7 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 7 (edited) With the crew ordered and awaiting dispatch 2776 has moved to the coal staithe. She will sit there until here crew arrives and finished with the wardrobe department where they will be added to the cab. A loco at rest And probably my favourite angle Fore an old stager she has scrubbed up well and makes a nice addition to the LM motive fleet. Edited March 7 by KNP 43 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Sweet pea Posted March 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 7 Lovely shot of the 2776 idling outside the engine shed Kevin. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dragonboy Posted March 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 7 (edited) Do I spy activity where the door used to be suggesting something is about to happen, while another “workman” adopts a traditional pose while holding the second door in place? Edited March 7 by Dragonboy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted March 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 7 4 hours ago, Kevin Johnson said: Lovely shot of the 2776 idling outside the engine shed Kevin. Idling sums up Little Muddle - so 2776 fits in well especially without a motor! I don’t think the chap staring at his runner beans has noticed the new arrival yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autocoach Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Like the Snows of Kilimanjaro, the Bridges of Madison County, there is a story in the Doors of Little Muddle (Engine Shed)... Cue the rock-n-roll sound of The Doors.... 1 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted March 8 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 8 Kevin's Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green static grass flowing down Someone left the door out in the rain I don't think that it can take it Cause it took so long to make it And he'll never hang that door again Oh no! 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted March 8 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 8 Past the farm the goods do chug.... 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Farmer sat on a bench reading a newspaper, flowers in bloom hopefully a coffee nearby. I’m just waiting for a summer morning like that. 2 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted March 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8 3 hours ago, Gedward said: Kevin's Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green static grass flowing down Someone left the door out in the rain I don't think that it can take it Cause it took so long to make it And he'll never hang that door again Oh no! I knew a girl whose surname was McArthur - and who worked at Northwick PARK hospital! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted March 9 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 9 Peaceful start to the day..... 43 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted March 10 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 10 You lucky people... By a pure fluke of the timetable we have ended up with all the Panniers in the yard at LM at the same time! What luck and coincidence? We have 7768 - on shed 2776 - at coal staithes 7750 - water siding 8752 - siding and about to set off 8701 - auto train 37 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted March 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10 20 minutes ago, KNP said: You lucky people... By a pure fluke of the timetable we have ended up with all the Panniers in the yard at LM at the same time! What luck and coincidence? We have 7768 - on shed 2776 - at coal staithes 7750 - water siding 8752 - siding and about to set off 8701 - auto train @2ManySpams will be so excited he may well be sick !!! What a day ! Rob 2 2 1 4 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted March 10 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 10 (edited) And now from one of the bedroom windows of the cottages... A view not often seen as I am balancing over the layout, with the camera pressed against the backscene for stability... One false move.... Edited March 10 by KNP 41 2 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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