Nick Dunhill’s workshop (scratch)building a SECR P class from the awful Alpha Graphics Kit.

[nickd]

My it's all so small.  Scratchbuilt con rods and redrilled modified crank webs with new journals.

 

 

 

 

 

The crossheads were 'shrunk down' by cutting the castings up and reassembling.  The slide bars have a crank throw length of 10 mm, so new cranks were made with 5 mm centres and a 3 mm journal.

[nickd]

Quite a squeeze.

 

 

 

 

I can see that a quick blow with an aerosol of carburetor cleaner might be in order now.

[nickd]

Here it is running on DCC.  The chuffs are a bit out of sync, and I usually get that, and a bit of 'tuning-in,' done before delivery.  This model however has a Zimo chip.  I usually use ECU decoders and Rob @ Modelyard in Leeds sorts out the firmware for me as part of his fee for the hardware. There's no one I know of in Yorks that can supply and tune Zimo decoders professionally, unless someone out there knows differently......

 

 

Edited April 3, 2023 by nickd

[nickd]

Done.  More pics when I get some decent ones taken.

 

 

This loco is built from a Agenoria Kit with some upgrades and 3D prints to replace the rather tired castings in the kit.

 

[roythebus1]

Nice work there. the P class was the first whitemetal loco kit I built back in the 1960s, a Wills finecast kit that cost me many weeks of paper round money! I still have that loco in my collection, but it had the motor upgraded from a Triang XT60 many years ago. I've also worked on the real thing as a trainee fireman on the K&ESR a few years ago.