trainboy656

Hello again all, this is going better than I'd thought, not as well as I'd like. The cab and coach section I've managed to get on, the front bogie is somewhat in a favourable position, but in order for her to traverse sharper curves and to avoid short circuiting, the underside of the cylinders will be dremmelled away. The rear pony truck is set up in a swing arrangement like on older Hornby models (With some scrap nickleplate I had laying around). Now just comes the arduous task of fitting the pickups to the bogies...! Only thing I am struggling to figure out is thus; Being as this project is one I'm building for my wife, they've requested that I depict the engine in her LSWR days. Only problem is the green, I've tried railmatch, but the lack of colour data on each pot doesn't exactly help me chose which is the correct green...! Any LSWR modellers that would be able to help me out?...

Aye, its a jidenco kit. Indeed it'll be a bit of a balancing act to keep it from reverse grounding out. The kit doesn't seem to come with the means to allow you to make her traverse sharper corners, I had a completed claughton designed by jidenco and it was clear it was designed for 4mm accurate scale track. The front bogie is easy enough, its rear one thats left me scratching my head...! If someone has done it before, it'd be nice to copy their method or adapt it to my purposes. Ah so you managed to get a ride in her coach section. Its a shame the whole engine didn't survive the scrap metal drive...

Hello all I'm not very good at this whole forum thing, so I'll get right to the point; This year I decided to bite the bullet in my side and start building this kit of the LSWR's F9 4-2-4T, otherwise known as "Drummonds Bug". This is a jidenco made kit and my first experience with building one. The best way I can describe it is as a scratch build in disguise. Despite my lack of experience with a kit like this one, progress is.... progressing... very well! However the main problem I encounter is telling. The bogie arrangement is what I'm struggling with for the most part, has anyone on this forum had experience with this kit (Or having outbid me on ebay for one...!) and how have they set up their bogies on this kit? Pictures would be most helpful Regards Joe

Oh wow, this HAS come full circle... I take it you no longer have the 00 scale variant of this loco. I picked her up in a model railway show in Newcastle around a year ago or so. How do I know she's yours? She still has that "temporary" repairs done on her crossheads. Granted when I had acquired her, a lot of those finer details seemed to have disappeared. Looking up I found out about her "wild west" autocoach and made swift action to rectify this. She might be old now, but she's still got plenty of fight left in her I can tell you that. Really IS a small world out there...!