RSS Fetcher Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Here we go. A startlingly inappropriate kit for a beginner to loco building..... There's a lot of catching up to do so starting with last December. This is the first solder of the kit. I'm soldering rather than superglueing like the instructions say to. Even I can tell superglue isn't going to work. Actually,, I did mend an Austin Allegro engine mount with superglue and it held for the year I had it for.... http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/R3QWFq-SnSI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/WgmtttiPqS4/s800/P1040382.JPG And here it is. The cab with completely wrong windows The instructions in issue one were wrong.... http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/R3To8q-SncI/AAAAAAAAAp8/xm1SXX3a8pI/s800/P1040412.JPG Made another cab (I got 4 issue ones) and also tried making some rivet detail from cut down pins. Still not right though. The frames look dreadful no matter which way round you stick them. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/R5vUuSg-azI/AAAAAAAAAzY/0-MPZJL-Cco/s800/P1040609.JPG Here we go with the third cab. This time I bought some rivets from Scale Hardware and filed down the frames as suggested by another RMwebber. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SHU_oEu2dEI/AAAAAAAABC4/TNO9kW9JAxA/s800/P1050397.JPG Now it looks half decent. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SHp4g7EaeAI/AAAAAAAABDw/kE0Gw5E_4YM/s800/cab.JPG Now let's have a look at the chassis. The idea here is that it fixes together rigidly enough so that it's difficult to get it out of alignment. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/R_vh24F_znI/AAAAAAAAA94/npzuXGa1lZ0/s800/P1040889.JPG Here it is. It seems to sit flat on a glass table so it's probably OK. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/R_vh54F_zoI/AAAAAAAAA-A/Gj-NsDpfZ50/s800/P1040890.JPG Here's the cartazzi truck. http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SAJxkhFI_hI/AAAAAAAAA_U/wDMxCq1XooE/s800/P1040898.JPG And with some castings attached. With Araldite since I still haven't tried low melt solder yet... http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SGQbg6_D3JI/AAAAAAAABB4/mfOukskepZo/s800/P1050297.JPG Here's the zamak(?) footplate plonked on the chassis. http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SAJxohFI_jI/AAAAAAAAA_k/Y5OIoC9gSrs/s800/P1040900.JPG This is the tender chassis neatly demonstrating one of the disadvantages of getting bits sent through the post... http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SIJnsHaYMtI/AAAAAAAABFo/fYyDWwP28NE/s800/P1050478.JPG http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SIJnwOeoN9I/AAAAAAAABFs/9AuYtATn-do/s800/P1050479.JPG It went together well enough though. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SIJl98JwgNI/AAAAAAAABFI/xxaeape2X_E/s800/P1050480.JPG Skipping forward to when I got some wheels it runs quite smoothly. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SPKFZfCa6iI/AAAAAAAABTw/73XqXJg10T0/s800/P1060360.JPG The big difference between this kit and the DJH original is the use of plastic. Here's the first of the plastic. The cab roof. The only other plastic kits I've built have been from Airfix. This stuff is a lot better. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SIJn32O1K0I/AAAAAAAABF0/8mhHjHJipeE/s800/P1050485.JPG Here's the cab, now with handrails posed on the chassis. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SIJn8B_v2BI/AAAAAAAABF4/MHKxx-R7HDM/s800/P1050488.JPG Comedy interlude. Some decals. Won't be needing them for a while.... http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SIeG8TOUjdI/AAAAAAAABGE/ie-_ge_HfMs/s800/P1050512.JPG Now for the bigie. The plastic boiler. Looks good to me. Those bits of wire are what Hachette expect me to make rivets out of. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SK3s7_Mzk5I/AAAAAAAABJs/gjx0a4NntS4/s800/P1050819.JPG Nuts to that! I still had loads left over from the cab. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SK3tPArKysI/AAAAAAAABJ4/L1lJS0hma88/s800/P1050823.JPG Looking loco shaped. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SK3tIAelnRI/AAAAAAAABJ0/FyTr-aBfCLE/s800/P1050822.JPG http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SSxv-6A-4QI/AAAAAAAABqs/C7nrTw1jC00/s800/P1060481.JPG This is the plastic A3 backhead that was initially supplied. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SK3tVYPIZRI/AAAAAAAABKA/au4oEZEifGg/s800/P1050825.JPG This is it's whitemetal replacement. http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SRoEvXjZ93I/AAAAAAAABn4/cbrbLUYkoSQ/s800/P1060427.JPG And some stuff to stick to it. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SMxN9Rjw0aI/AAAAAAAABOk/SS-k9OY0Jt4/s800/P1060097.JPG Like this. http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SSdV4qgDj5I/AAAAAAAABpU/9j0-uzVP1II/s800/P1060471.JPG And there we are. Eleven months later. Hachette had some trouble initially accepting my payment so my issues are a little behind. I'm only up to #33. Finally got round to doing a bit more.... Stuck the bits to the backhead. Rather than using the supplied brass wire and painting it I stripped down some copper cable and used that instead. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SYXO8YuTUGI/AAAAAAAABv0/XD8acJnzU3I/s800/P1060616.JPG Guard irons and some brackets fitted to the chassis along with another pair of drivers. http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SasrCHpB7KI/AAAAAAAABx4/HDquZbmxpEs/s800/P1060680.JPG Here we go with the coupling rods. First off made a horlicks of this one. I picked up the mag with instructions for the other side and ended up soldering it back to front. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SepuxppZP9I/AAAAAAAABzo/cr6DbubstjM/s800/P1060782.JPG Some unsoldering later.... My expensive jig. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/Sepu3f32ibI/AAAAAAAABzs/pBf9BKqcNYc/s800/P1060783.JPG All soldered up. "http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/Sepu7neQfHI/AAAAAAAABzw/Gkd55XVE8is/s800/P1060784.JPG"[/imgl]And cleaned.http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/Sepu_yLF_-I/AAAAAAAABz0/pHYYD1zthLQ/s800/P1060785.JPG Here we go with the tender brakes. The instructions tell you fit the brakes and line them up to the wheels. I figured using the rod on the etch as jig might save some trouble later. Superglued these. I still haven't tried low temperature soldering yet. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SjVs6b8tcYI/AAAAAAAAB3c/imnCQYLlwZQ/s800/P1070104.JPG The rods were soldered to the brakes using regular solder. Quickly. The water scoop is also on now. It's a solid casting. Some people have carefully hollowed theirs out. I didn't. By the time the frames are on it's not going to be that visible anyway. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SjVtEnh37oI/AAAAAAAAB3k/V2PB6pHoFgA/s800/P1070106.JPG http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/SjVtKRIxaxI/AAAAAAAAB3o/beTT15kOGbo/s800/P1070107.JPG OK. Time I did some more of this. Out of the box, the footplate fouls the rear drivers. To fix this 2mm needs to be trimmed from the front of the frames. The guard irons need to come off. Also the splashers since they apparently are going to foul the wheels as well. http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/Ss--K7VSfoI/AAAAAAAACLI/a-HIPa_zi6E/s800/P1070607.JPG http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/Ss--PWKJAwI/AAAAAAAACLQ/al4ja3nqVX8/s800/P1070608.JPG Quit a bit of the footplate still needed to be filed away before the wheels would turn and ther'd be no danger of them shorting http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xgcaz4HELkE/Ss--T1waU6I/AAAAAAAACLU/ytMKuwTy73M/s800/P1070609.JPG Now the footplate sits nicely on the chassis and all the wheels go round too! View the full article Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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