Planet Industrials - Kerr Stuart Victory RTR in OO...

[SteveyDee68]

1 hour ago, cornelius said:

If anyone wants to become the record holder of "Most Victories Bought By One Individual" your current target to beat is 7.

Wow! Just - wow!!

 

But I can see why!

 

HOURS OF FUN!

[SteveyDee68]

All this talk of green and black and crest/number positioning reminiscent of C&HPR NLR tanks …

 

 

 

My name is Steve and I am a (shunting) locoholic… 🙄

 

It’s been six minutes since I last purchased a Victory (this time, a green one) 😬

 

HOURS OF FUN!

 

 

Precioussssss 😈

[Wickham Green too]

11 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said:

... It’s been six minutes since I last purchased a Victory (this time, a green one) 😬 ...

Was that number eight ? ................ and counting .................

[Din]

 

Well that was an unexpected kit.

 

From the PI Facebook Page:

 

Rio Tinto - Perhaps not the cab conversion you were expecting next, James is working on this conversion for a commission inspired by the North British tanks that operated on the Rio Tinto mine railways in Spain. Would anyone else be interested in this as a kit at some point? Ugly but a real character!

[cctransuk]

2 minutes ago, Din said:

 

Well that was an unexpected kit.

 

From the PI Facebook Page:

 

Rio Tinto - Perhaps not the cab conversion you were expecting next, James is working on this conversion for a commission inspired by the North British tanks that operated on the Rio Tinto mine railways in Spain. Would anyone else be interested in this as a kit at some point? Ugly but a real character!

 

Link not working.

 

CJI.

[Moxy]

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=558762159592806&set=a.453895220079501

 

for Rio Tinto possible conversion kit.

[cornelius]

At the moment this is a commission for a personal customer of James's (and not prototypical to the Victory in any way!) but it would be easy enough to make the parts available if there's interest. 

Edited November 29, 2022 by cornelius

[Moxy]

5 minutes ago, cornelius said:

At the moment this is a commission for a personal customer of James's (and not prototypical to the Victory in any way!) but it would be easy enough to make the parts available if there's interest. 

 

Yes, there is interest here.  👍

[Ruston]

My Victory has had a bit of a make-over. I swapped the weathered bodywork with the factory-finish bodywork from a Victory that belongs to a friend, because liked the weathering that I had done. Mine now has the wheels painted and a coat of a coloured varnish applied to the red paintwork in order to darken it and black boiler bands to break up the mass of red. It has also been fitted with buffers for handling chaldrons.

 

 

 

Edited November 29, 2022 by Ruston

[SteveyDee68]

6 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Was that number eight ? ................ and counting .................

Nooooooooo!!!

 

I now have two.

Red and Green.

 

I may end up getting a third.
 

A Black one. (But not the ROD one!)

 

Depends upon if they say anything at all about a blue one.

 

Preferably PLA blue.

 

Just saying.

 

I might just.

 

If they do.

[James Hilton]

3 hours ago, Ruston said:

 

 

 

Superb Dave, lovely combination of colours!

[OliverRowley]

4 hours ago, Ruston said:

My Victory has had a bit of a make-over. I swapped the weathered bodywork with the factory-finish bodywork from a Victory that belongs to a friend, because liked the weathering that I had done. Mine now has the wheels painted and a coat of a coloured varnish applied to the red paintwork in order to darken it and black boiler bands to break up the mass of red. It has also been fitted with buffers for handling chaldrons.

 

 

 

Looks class!

How did you make the dumb buffers?

[Ruston]

29 minutes ago, OliverRowley said:

Looks class!

How did you make the dumb buffers?

Brass bar. Milling machine.

[big jim]

Well my £88 eBay bargain has arrived, quick look in the box and it all looks good, might get it out tomorrow morning for a proper look 

 

 

[NHY 581]

On 29/11/2022 at 13:42, cornelius said:

At the moment this is a commission for a personal customer of James's (and not prototypical to the Victory in any way!) but it would be easy enough to make the parts available if there's interest. 

 

It looks bonkers but strangely compelling !!

 

However, good to see in the same post that a Swindonisation kit is on the horizon. My apologies if I've missed this but what is the timeframe on this ? It would also get around my disappearing lamp iron issue as they would probably ( not checked ) need swapping for GWR types. 

 

Rob. 

[cornelius]

2 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

However, good to see in the same post that a Swindonisation kit is on the horizon. My apologies if I've missed this but what is the timeframe on this ? It would also get around my disappearing lamp iron issue as they would probably ( not checked ) need swapping for GWR types. 

 

The awkward answer is "it depends". The etched overlays for riveted tanks are pretty easy to draw up although our etcher is now at capacity for this year so it would be early 2023 for those. Sourcing new boiler components is a bit variable depending on whether these are cast or printed.

 

The other alternative is if we do a further production run of the loco, then a GWR livery on the current tooling with perhaps a new safety valve cover is a possibility.

[Northmoor MPD]

On 29/11/2022 at 15:05, Ruston said:

My Victory has had a bit of a make-over. I swapped the weathered bodywork with the factory-finish bodywork from a Victory that belongs to a friend, because liked the weathering that I had done. Mine now has the wheels painted and a coat of a coloured varnish applied to the red paintwork in order to darken it and black boiler bands to break up the mass of red. It has also been fitted with buffers for handling chaldrons.

 

 

 

That looks amazing! Could easily be mistaken for 0 gauge! 

['CHARD]

I'm getting in touch with Baroness Gisela Stuart of Edgbaston about obtaining one of her famous ejectors for my maroon example.

[SteveyDee68]

6 hours ago, cornelius said:

The other alternative is if we do a further production run of the loco, then a GWR livery on the current tooling with perhaps a new safety valve cover is a possibility.

Together with a blue PLA livery version…

You just know I am going to keep mithering for that!!

 

HOURS OF FUN!

 

PS

Notification of a parcel arriving tomorrow - surely that can’t be my second, green Victory tank already?!

[Ian J.]

4 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said:

Together with a blue PLA livery version…

You just know I am going to keep mithering for that!!

 

HOURS OF FUN!

 

PS

Notification of a parcel arriving tomorrow - surely that can’t be my second, green Victory tank already?!

 

There's an outside possibility that if a PLA blue were done, I might buy it to go with my slowly building little collection of various Port Authority dock shunters...

[SteveyDee68]

Finally, after shaking off the stinking cold bug that’s floored me for the past week, I’ve had half an hour to unpack, admire and briefly test run my lovely new maroon Victory tank (“Lillibet”, when her name plates arrive in due course).

 

Can I simply echo what has been expressed here and in the pages of the modelling press that, straight out of the box and with no running in, she runs beautifully smoothly, the motor so quiet that the only noise I can hear is the rumble of the wheels transmitted through to my desk surface!

 

Wow!

 

Using the good old Gaugemaster Combi DC hand held controller, I could have her gently move off, accelerate and then seemingly drift to a stop again simply using the control knob…

 

Can’t wait to run her in properly, and then play with operate her again! And to think, a green stablemate will arrive shortly to keep her company!

 

#smitten

 

 

Slightly out of focus iPhone photo, which brings out the red more than it appears in real life!

 

I like the earlier idea on this thread of adding a shelf at the rear of the cab upon which to place toolboxes, tea mugs etc. Particularly because the windows have been done so well - no junking great piece of clear plastic across the cab as is found in the Hornby Pecketts, for example!

 

I also really like the red wheels, black boiler bands and weathering shown earlier by @Ruston - but I think I might leave such improvements to somebody else to undertake, or until such time as I am confident enough to do it myself without ruining a beautiful model!

 

HOURS OF FUN!

Edited December 2, 2022 by SteveyDee68
Further thoughts

[No Decorum]

8 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said:

Finally, after shaking off the stinking cold bug that’s floored me for the past week, I’ve had half an hour to unpack, admire and briefly test run my lovely new maroon Victory tank (“Lillibet”, when her name plates arrive in due course).

 

Can I simply echo what has been expressed here and in the pages of the modelling press that, straight out of the box and with no running in, she runs beautifully smoothly, the motor so quiet that the only noise I can hear is the rumble of the wheels transmitted through to my desk surface!

 

Wow!

 

Using the good old Gaugemaster Combi DC hand held controller, I could have her gently move off, accelerate and then seemingly drift to a stop again simply using the control knob…

 

Can’t wait to run her in properly, and then play with operate her again! And to think, a green stablemate will arrive shortly to keep her company!

 

#smitten

 

 

Slightly out of focus iPhone photo, which brings out the red more than it appears in real life!

 

I like the earlier idea on this thread of adding a shelf at the rear of the cab upon which to place toolboxes, tea mugs etc. Particularly because the windows have been done so well - no junking great piece of clear plastic across the cab as is found in the Hornby Pecketts, for example!

 

I also really like the red wheels, black boiler bands and weathering shown earlier by @Ruston - but I think I might leave such improvements to somebody else to undertake, or until such time as I am confident enough to do it myself without ruining a beautiful model!

 

HOURS OF FUN!

I open each new post hoping that it will bring news of the sound versions. Whilst there may be nothing so far, I enjoy seeing the posts, especially ones with pictures. Ruston has done a superb job weathering his but I can’t bear to spoil the superb finish on a new loco, however realistic it may be. I’m looking forward to hours of fun!

[BVMR21]

14 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said:

blue PLA livery version…

Or a plain lined (or unlined) blue!

[NHY 581]

On 01/12/2022 at 08:47, NHY 581 said:

 

It looks bonkers but strangely compelling !!

 

However, good to see in the same post that a Swindonisation kit is on the horizon. My apologies if I've missed this but what is the timeframe on this ? It would also get around my disappearing lamp iron issue as they would probably ( not checked ) need swapping for GWR types. 

 

Rob. 

 

21 hours ago, cornelius said:

 

The awkward answer is "it depends". The etched overlays for riveted tanks are pretty easy to draw up although our etcher is now at capacity for this year so it would be early 2023 for those. Sourcing new boiler components is a bit variable depending on whether these are cast or printed.

 

The other alternative is if we do a further production run of the loco, then a GWR livery on the current tooling with perhaps a new safety valve cover is a possibility.

 

Morning Stephen, 

 

That sounds worth waiting for but..............

 

Thinking logically ( doesn't happen very often ) when the locos were first acquired by the Brecon and Merthyr and the Alexandra (Newport & South Wales) Docks and Railway they were direct from the R.O.D........and yet to be Swindonized (!?!) and therefore the boiler fittings, tanks etc, were as built.

 

So that's two more pre-grouping liveries that are possible.......

 

Rob. 

 

 

Edited December 2, 2022 by NHY 581

[gpplumy]

 

Plumtree works victories