hartleymartin Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 I cannot find the thread with the rules of entry, but I hope that mine makes the cut (pun intended!) This is a bog-standard Hornby A1x Terrier. Modifications so far include:- Extending the bunker as per Isle of Wight versions - Moving the tank fillers to their correct position - Modifications to the bufferbeams. Essentially, I took them off, glued 1mm square styrene section to the top, sanded them down a little and am hoping that a couple more goes with fine sandpaper and primer (next one will be red oxide) will put them at a more realistic height. The plan is to re-spray it satin black to represent Isle of Wight No. 11 "Newport" Jobs still to do:- Go over bunker with some filler and sandpaper to take out the rather obvious joins.- remove the sub-footplate front sandboxes- Obtain suitable decals and name-plates- Re-spray in Satin blackSome points of "contention"- I like the red coupling rods, so will keep those.- Lowering the body will require a replacement motor. Perhaps a bit too much for what was always intended as a "cheap and cheerful" conversion.- Yes, I forgot to remove the front window glass before hitting it with primer (D'oh!) - I primarily model 7mm Standard Gauge Australian, NSW prototypes. This means I now have to built an IoW layout! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Lovely stuff, I'll hopefully be doing the same with a Dapol 0 gauge one (or 2!) unless Dapol do it for me!! JF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 I want to get at least two Dapol 7mm terriers. One will be to go into the collection of industrial/light-railway locomotives (Peckett E class too!) and one will get hacked up to represent an NSWGR N67 class. The last died out around 1950, but I could imagineer a history where instead of scrapping it was sold-on to another industrial railway like a colliery. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Hmmm... I'm wondering if I can obtain a nicer casting for the westinghouse brake pump and for the clack valves... I seriously doubt that I can do much about adding rivets to the smokebox. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Alan Gibson does a very nice cast brass Westinghouse pump. Branchlines also do the safety valves - theirs are much nice than the thick plastic ones that come with the model. For the rivets, check out Archer the transfer ones: http://www.archertransfers.com/SurfaceDetailsMain.html I have a Terrier to do myself at some point (I bought it 10+ years ago). The challenge with the Dapol/Hornby model is finding a prototype A1x with the sandboxes above the footplate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Indeed, as far as I am aware there were only 2 or 3 that retained the sandboxes above the footplate after rebuilding as A1x. IoW no. 11 is the only one I could find. I'm a bit reluctant to take files to a perfectly working chassis to take the extra sandboxes off though. the way the model has been moulded makes it quite difficult to remove the sanboxes from the splashers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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