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    Anyone who read the topic I started a few days ago will know what this is all about but for those of you who don't, I intend to turn this selection of rolling stock and more (which will follow in later posts into 009 rolling stock and maybe even build a layout around that, this is not for the purists because very little of this will represent actual locomotives or wagons until I add to it with kits in the future. This for fun. some of the matchbox rolling stock to be converted.
    Rhys
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    Hornby 14xx detailing.

    By WD0-6-0,

    I'm normally useless at actually recording any modelling I do. I do a fair bit very little is recorded on here. As I'm now facing a two week modelling ban (imposed by my mother) due to mock exams I thought I would finally start a small project, try and finish it before the end of the holidays and record it all here.
    I'm going to add detail to my 14xx.
    The final model will actually be composed of 3 14xx(s), a mainly trains detail kit and Alan Gibson wheels.
    The first 14xx I had was a poor runner and when a traction tyre needed replacing I took it apart to replace it. Unfortunately as one job was repaired another needed doing and eventually it was de motored and left as hauled stock. A few weeks ago another came up in e classifieds here and I bought it with the intention of combining the two to get a good model. I then thought of further detailing it and my wish was granted not long after when a mainly trains detailing kit along with Gibsons wheels (unfortunately for me in EM) and a spare body appeared on the classifieds as well. Both members were very pleasant to deal with and my thanks to them for making this possible. So here we are, on to the first step.
    With one working chassis I decided to use the gibsons wheels but, problem one, the axles were the wrong length for OO so, me being impatient I decided to use the old axles. Problem two, these axles have a burred end which is smaller than the Gibsons axles so these were wrapped in plasticard (I forget the thickness but very thin), stuck in a drill and spun against a file to make them true round and the right thickness.
     



     
    After this the wheels were attached and quartered. The trailing wheels were just pushed further onto the axle as there is plenty of space.
    I then added the chimney, smokebox door, door handles and main handrail. All of this was done on the new spare body.
     

     
    I then spent the next hour baking a cake.
  4. WD0-6-0
    No photos this time I'm afraid, they'll follow tomorrow.
     
    I spent more time on the wheels today making sure they were right, which they aren't. I was aware that my bodge job on the axles may not work and it seems it didn't, at least not as well as I had hoped, I'm not 100% sure the wheels are exactly parallel and there is a tight spot somewhere when they are rolling but I think that's more to do with my quartering.
    More work to follow.
     
    On the other hand, more detail went on today. The auto equipment is now sat nicely on/under the buffer beams each end and I may purchase the paint tomorrow or the day after.
    The deadline is drawing close now so transfers which have to be ordered in may have to wait until after but since I chose my prototype a long time ago I already have a set of etched plates just waiting to be applied.
     
    After all these chassis problems I'm now thinking s*d this one lets get a high level chassis kit, we'll see
  5. WD0-6-0
    So recently I came across a set of drawings, after an hour or so on the computer I had it set to two scales and printed out several copies (for personal use only obviously). The OO copy is going to be used to train my CAD skills as I'm going to do it on sketch up for 3D printing. The O gauge copy is going to be used to make one the old fashioned way and that's what I'm doing here (I'm doing a OO one by hand two but OO scratch building is not new to me, O is a whole new world. Anyway, enough waffle here is a photo to get you started. The loco itself is a Stanier 2P 0-4-4 tank

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