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The Royal Scott tender is ready for cleaning and priming.  No issues with this assembly.  I enjoyed this build after a few dodgy ones.

So it's now go ahead with the actual loco build.

1 hour ago, daifly said:

Did you download the latest instructions from the Ragstone website? They appear to have a pretty good explanation of how the brake gear goes together.

http://www.ragstonemodels.co.uk/uploads/4/8/6/4/48647195/ck20_-_lbsc_bullion.pdf

Dave

Thanks, I have downloaded those instructions, they make sense where the original ones didn't.

Got the bullion van ready for delivery now.  Next up is a David Andrews Royal Scott.  That should be a doddle as I've build quite a few of those under the Gladiator brand.

Another van, this is the Ragstone Models bullion van.  Not very good instructions provided on the one regarding the braking system.  So I improvised on them.

The horsebox is now ready for Geoff. All the very flimsy hinges etc were a bit of  challenge. Not to mention all the handrails to be made from wire  rod.  (Getting them to be identical was the fiddly part)

A little change here building the Roxey Moulding kit for the LBSCR horsebox.  No brake gear provided except for the brake hangers and shoes.

Thanks for all the above replies.  (I have no books on the Caledonian Railway.)  So that's all very helpful.

No sure about that. Doesn't explain why only one front lamp iron.😉

Cracking on  bit with the Cardean loco.  What I'm finding a bit odd with this particular prototype is there are no photos of in service with no lamp irons on the footplate, just the one in front of the chimney. Also no vac pipes on the front.

Christmas greetings to you. And a very prosperous new year too.

After a short break it's back to the Cardean loco.  Not been going to well on the loco body so far. Making clearances for the large driving wheels was the problem. The instructions were not wrong when saying a lot of chopping away of the boiler and splashers were needed.

Hi Ian.  That photo does like like you said.  Thing is the kit instructions say the compensating beams are attached to the tender frames.   The bogies only have the axle boxes attached.  There was virtually no swing for the bogies. So I made the bogies a little narrower to allow enough swing to comfortable traverse a Peco cross over.  I think I have the axle box problem figured. That will be the last items to fit during the painting stage.

Here we go on another headscratcher. This time a Mercian Caledonian 4-6-0, McIntosh 903 name of Cardean. (An ex Sanspareil with an admitted limited amount of reworking.) 

Looking at the axle boxes, somehow they have to fit on the bogies.  I have already had to do some alterations on the actual bogies to get this far.

5 minutes ago, S.D.L. said:

Looks superb.

on the secondhand kit market would it be labelled David Andrew’s or a brand?

David Andrews is the brand.

That's the David Andrews Churchward 47xx finished and ready for delivery.   Been a bit on the tricky side of some areas to build need a fair few of photos to sort it out.  Got there in the end.

On 05/12/2023 at 14:14, daifly said:

Ken

 

I hope that it's just your photos but the boiler looks all wrong to my ageing eyes. The bottom of the boiler should be parallel with the footplate and level with the top of the splashers. The boiler is coned from the back of the smokebox to the front of the firebox. 

 

Dave

The bottom of the boiler is parallel with the footplate and level with the splasher tops.  Being cone shaped and the camera angle makes look slightly off.

21 hours ago, S.D.L. said:

Nice. 
what motor / gearbox is going in it.

 

steve 

The ABC 3 Stage unit. 

Ken.

It's almost done now.   The cab is the most work now.  Then remaining pipe work and boiler parts before the big cleanup and priming.

Body work has now the worse done with. It's all done mainly to the detailing now.

Kicking of today with yesterdays efforts on the bodywork. I had to modify the cylinders snifter valves, they were sitting too high causing them to prevent the footplate to sit down on the chassis. 

That's the chassis almost done, there is still a number of things to attach as yet.  Now turning to the body.  Hope it's going to be no more difficult as the tender was.

That's the loco chassis  under way.  Quite a bit different to the 6 coupled ones as one set of drivers are in the way .You will see what I mean in due course.  I'm pleased the the chassis ran very smooth with no problems.

11 hours ago, LaScala said:

I thought many of them (in slightly earlier iterations maybe) are effectively available as Gladiator kits, my understanding being that he designed them before striking out on his own.  The GCR ones in particular are surely clones?

Quite correct, many of them are available as Gladiator kits. But not all of the David Andrews kits.

Thanks Steve.  Yes, it is a pity they are not readily available.  The tender is now ready for priming.

The tender is now well underway.  A few more things to add then ready for the primer.

A lot of details on this Collet tender.