WD0-6-0 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I think it was a "beefed up" A1 boiler !! Brit15 Very good. Took me a moment to get this one I must be getting slow. As for the real boiler I hope none of you are telling porkies?! Yeah I thought its about time I left too Rhys Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I said in an earlier post that the GBL base I have was awaiting painting.... Done using black, white, and brown acrylics, and a coating of silver.... It looks even better with the finished loco on it! Note that the fall plate still fits the gap between the Loco and Tender... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Prototype 1, Bachmann chassis, Hornby tender frames, GBL loco and GBL 4472 tender bodyshell. Prototype 2, Hornby Railroad 4472 chassis (with flywheel), GBL loco and tender bodyshell. Bodyshell has been de-frocked and awaiting painting. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted March 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2014 Simon - do you have clearance issues with the valve gear/cylinders on the bodyshell? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Simon - do you have clearance issues with the valve gear/cylinders on the bodyshell? No, because I swapped out the A1/A3 type cylinders for the super detailed A4 type. Therefore it all fits rather well 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I said in an earlier post that the GBL base I have was awaiting painting.... Done using black, white, and brown acrylics, and a coating of silver.... It looks even better with the finished loco on it! Note that the fall plate still fits the gap between the Loco and Tender... Looks good Sarah, nice work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 For the Midlanders among us…correct type wheels, fixed cartazzi, tender body on Hornby tender frames (unbelievably they have identical attachment points so it's literally unscrew the crimson top and screw in to the tender frames). New valve gear, front wheel set. All the wheels will be painted black, the loco body stripped, the tender cut down and then the whole model primed before gloss black, transfers, johnson's Klear and some judicious weathering to be applied. May overtake my A4 conversion at this rate…! 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spet0114 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 ...May overtake my A4 conversion at this rate…! A Duchess overtake an A4 - never! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 A Duchess overtake an A4 - never! Agree! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
knobhead Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Wow! The 28xx is already listed on ebay! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Great-British-Locomotives-Magazine-4-The-Churchward-2800-OO-Gauge-Model-Train-/371031684109?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item566336340d Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrel Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Who would pay that much? Don't think it's in the shops yet and mine has not been delivered yet. Maybe next week Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
knobhead Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Who would pay that much? Don't think it's in the shops yet and mine has not been delivered yet. Maybe next week I did. Couldn't resist for more than a few minutes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Wow! The 28xx is already listed on ebay! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Great-British-Locomotives-Magazine-4-The-Churchward-2800-OO-Gauge-Model-Train-/371031684109?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item566336340d With a nice mark up in price too plus the postage. I think the 28XX should be the shops next Wednesday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
knobhead Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 With a nice mark up in price too plus the postage. I think the 28XX should be the shops next Wednesday. These models aren't sold here so when they hit the stores in the UK and Ireland isn't of much interest.. The higher price and postage is part of the game when you live where I live. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Wow! The 28xx is already listed on ebay! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Great-British-Locomotives-Magazine-4-The-Churchward-2800-OO-Gauge-Model-Train-/371031684109?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item566336340d Who would pay that much? Don't think it's in the shops yet and mine has not been delivered yet. Maybe next week That's clearly someone who doesn't actually have the goods, but is supremely overconfident that he can get hold of sufficient stock next week to put straight into the post. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WD0-6-0 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 With a nice mark up in price too plus the postage. I think the 28XX should be the shops next Wednesday. If you think the mark up on that one is high see their mallard model £12.99 and with postage still to add Rhys Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 These models aren't sold here so when they hit the stores in the UK and Ireland isn't of much interest.. The higher price and postage is part of the game when you live where I live. I am sure we can send one over Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 More pictures here on the blog. Valances not finished yet, need filing and a bit more cutting away at the front, however the overall effect is getting there. Incidentally the valve gear is going to be changed for a super detail Hornby A4 set, I've decided. Very prompt decision when I remembered the bracket for the eccentric gear is moulded onto the body shell of the Railroad A4 and not part of the stamped metal components assembled into the finished valve gear. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Boar Fell Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Issue 5 Will be the Schools, as the cover has now appeared on their website. Wild Boar Fell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgauntlet Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Hi again, Please forgive me all for coming back straight away but I forgot something I wanted to ask. I'm mainly a BR Western Region and Southern Region modeller but maintain an interest in other strange lines in other parts of the country too !!. Please may I ask - I seem to remember once seeing a magazine article on 'cutting and shutting' using A4's to produce the unique W1 4-6-4 in its later A4 lookalike form. If my memory isn't playing tricks on me can anyone who models Mr Gresley's locos perhaps let me know if I'm right. After 54 years active in the hobby it sometimes difficult to remember every detail of the articles I've read over the years so I could be wrong over this. If by chance I am right I reckon the £2.99 A4 has got to offer the perfect place to start as I fancy a W1 in BR livery. Thankyou for any advice on this. Regards to All. You're not wrong, I remember the article myself. It was (I think) published within the past five or six years, I think I still have it somewhere and I'll try to dig it out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 You're not wrong, I remember the article myself. It was (I think) published within the past five or six years, I think I still have it somewhere and I'll try to dig it out. Graeme King produced that conversion first as far as I know, and it was published in BRM first I think. I myself own one of Graeme's excellent conversions, expertly converted by Graeme around six years ago from a Railroad 60022 Mallard model. It is a stunning model and still turns heads when it gets run, though it gets out rarely at the minute as it's the wrong livery and period to the rest of my stock. Not for long I suspect... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 (edited) https://www.model-railways-live.co.uk/Articles/76-12/Locomotives/Stretching_a_streak/ Graeme also does the conversion parts for the Hornby model, which should be suitable for the GBL A4, as well as bits for the A1/1 and other models. http://www.lner.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5243 Edited March 30, 2014 by 69843 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 (edited) W1 conversion: Not quite 5 or 6 years - BRM June 2010 using adapted Finecast parts, now possible much more easily using some dedicated resin pieces. Simon - the top part of your W1's lubricator drive linkage has become inverted. It needs to be coaxed back down, possibly by firstly loosening the body. It may be that it "flipped" when the loco was being run upside down for some reason. Edited March 30, 2014 by gr.king Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 W1 conversion: Not quite 5 or 6 years - BRM June 2010 using adapted Finecast parts, now possible much more easily using so dedicated resin pieces. Simon - the top part of your W1's lubricator drive linkage has become inverted. It needs to be coaxed back down, possibly by firstly loosening the body. It may be that it "flipped" when the loco was being run upside down for some reason. I'd not realised it was that long ago. It really is a beaut. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Simon - the top part of your W1's lubricator drive linkage has become inverted. It needs to be coaxed back down, possibly by firstly loosening the body. It may be that it "flipped" when the loco was being run upside down for some reason. Now done - thanks Graeme. I had the model in a loco cradle recently so it may have happened then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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