Bucoops

31 minutes ago, BartlowHills said:

Another old 4mm J17 kit that has not been mentioned above is the Stelfox etched brass one from the 1980's. It's a good starting point if you can find one but rare as the proverbial hen's teeth! Bernard Weller took it over from Stelfox and sold some of the castings up to the early 2000's but never re-released the kit. 

I am lucky enough to have one salted away. 100% brass which is really nice.

They do look good, don't they! And probably a lot quicker to finish off than the Mousa ones!

I see the odd post on Facebook about the Quints - likely from you? I don't think I follow Isinglass Models but probably should! Although that would probably tempt me to buy something...!

Andy said the earlier drawings don't have much underframe detail, that was included in more recent drawings after someone requested it and older ones weren't updated. The Westinghouse cylinders will be smaller than Vacuum ones but I'd still like to know what they look like (there were several designs) and where to put them.

Watching with interest  Do you know if Isinglass have managed to track down any details on the brake cylinder etc. arrangement? I bought the drawings a little while back and I queried the lack of info and they said they were looking into it for their printed models.

Fantastic - thanks I want to put the boxes on the bogie but the castings don't make that easy unfortunately. Might have to follow the instructions!

Hiya, quick question as the archive seems to have dissappeared and I used to pop onto the build of this loco for reference - did you fix the outer sandboxes to the bogies as per the real loco, or behind the buffer beams as per the kit instructions?

Thanks

Richard