Blog- Kelvinbank, a Caledonian Railway project. - A Dunalastair 1 part 1

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<p><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'>A very long time ago I bought a second hand Dunalastair 1 DJH kit . Well, it was 18 quid a go complete with a set of Jackson/Romford wheels and an XO4 motor? Plus some other bits. There was even a spare tender in there which ended up behind 583. </span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br />So why had someone sold it? Well to put it politely the castings were horrible. Looked like they just hadn’t got the whitemetal hot enough and it set while flowing. The footplate was junk, the edges and lip were all over the shop. The boiler was laughable. The tender parts looked like the halves of the mould were a mil apart. You could cast a battleship with the flash. </span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br />But its a DJH kit , why not flog it for silly cash on flea bay? Well, nope, no way would I inflict that on a fellow modeller. Just not on. So over the years I have accumulated a few parts and thrown them in the box. </span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br />Now you are all going to point out that very good kits are available for other Dunalastairs, two to four. There are, but sometimes you just have to stretch your modelling legs and actually file some metal. So stuff it, I’m building a Dunalastair 1. On the plus side I have a lot of info; drawings, pics, descriptions.</span></span><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br />Let’s see how it goes. </span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br />At least I’ll have a box to keep it in.</span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br /></span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br />Ok, a chassis, some the Romford/Jackson wheels on for now. Gibsons are being painted. I started with a set of Gibson profile milled frames and went on from there.</span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br /></span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br /></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br />The compensated front bogie uses copperclad as the spacer, the pattern cut in the bottom would let me fit pickups later. </span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br /></span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br />High level gearbox, straightforward build, runs nicely. </span></span><br /><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br /></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style='font-family: Helvetica'><span style='font-size: 18px'><br />Well, it’s a start.</span></span></p><div id='attach_wrap' class='rounded clearfix'>

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