hartleymartin

Shame that they didn't stake their claim to the LBSCR Terrier before Dapol did. I'm sure that they would have done a great job of it.

Still tinkering away at mine. Have to wait for the hobby shop to open tomorrow to get some more paints. Following on from some comments in rhe Cwm Bach thread, it seems that the Hudswell Clarke really is something of an RTR kit. It comes to pieces very nicely for customisation.

Ixion's Hudswell Clarke is a great little model. It does seem to have become a "RTR kit." I've seen quite a few of them modified and customized. I'm tinkering away with mine at the moment.

Thanks for that post. I was looking at getting replacement gauge glasses to add a little more detail to the cab. I also noticed that you repainted the cab floor.

I think that you can get PVC pipe in 1" diameter. Plastruct do make 25.4mm tube with 1.6mm thick walls, but it probably won't be cheap.

Pondering over the mechanism at the moment. Will strip down and respray the coupling rods. I will also have to spray the wheels at some stage. Wissington qas restored with green frames, but I think black are better. Will also have to look at the couplings. The supplied ones work just fine, but I would like either screw link couplingsor the D shackle type with the short middle link.

Can someone please provide a video clip on YouTube to show how they work? I'm rather intrigued.

It's a hobby. I've now spent 10 years in O gauge and have never produced my own layout. Now that I have a small fleet of industrial locomotives I'll have some motivation, but I've quite thoroughly enjoyed building kits and modifying RTR models in the lead time.

Stage 1 of cab interior paint job complete. I ised a buff-coloured spray paint (again from Tamiya) which doesn't really match the supplied cab front, but really isn't noticable when you look into the cab. It will be further obscured by crew figurines, so a good colour match isn't truly essential. It proved to be actually quite easy, figuring out how to mask the cab. Just waiting for the paint to cure before doing the lower half of the cab interior in satin black. Ran out of green when respraying the saddle tank but got one coat of colour on, so will need another can to finish the job. One can would have done the whole job for the locomotive if I had properly prepared the surface before hand (live and learn).

The state of affairs at the moment. Well, until I decided that I didn't do an adequate surface preparation on the saddle tank and took some 1000 grade sand paper to it and gave it a re-spray. I'm also going to go for Satin black on the roof, as the "rubber black" doesn't quite achieve what I want there. The brass buffers have been through some blackening solution, but I'm not yet 100% happy with them. Next, I will tackle the cab interior.

Much of my inspiration is coming from "Wissington" the videos on YouTube show lots of views including cab interior shots.

Indeed I painted the exterior. I masked the doors and windows from the inside. I'm going to brush paint the cab interior. I already gave the floor a wash of XF10 Flat Brown. Not sure what colour the lower backsheet should be (the part with the coal bunker opening) and I'm interested to see in some photos that some had a small cupboard mounted on the backsheet between the windows.

Painted the cab exterior today. It was indeed something of a ship-in-a-bottle exercise just masking it up to leave the interior in grey primer. I might just brush paint the cream interior as I cannot find a suitable spray for it.

At the moment I'm not looking forward to repainting the wheels.

At the moment my thoughts are to remove all the parts that can be removed (already done) then spray the interior, carefully mask the interior, spray green exterior then another masking to spray the roof black. I'm also looking for some interior cab photos to see what details I might add. The left hand cab extension becoming an auxiliary coal bunker is a thought. Other details will include tool boxes and oil cans on the footplate. I haf thought about changing the front sandboxes to the earlier above the footplate type, but I don't really want to hack into the lovely chassis block.

Tamiya Light Grey Primer goes onto the smokebox, boiler and saddle tank: Two coats of primer gave a good coverage. I have also filed and sanded the saddle tank to smooth out the creases into a nice curve. Partly reassembled after Tamiya "Rubber Black" went onto the smokebox and three coats of "Racing Green" went onto the saddle tank and boiler. The cab was disassembled and given a coat of the same primer. As it stands, I'm waiting until I've figured out how to repaint the interior of the cab before adding the green to the exterior. I'm not sure if I will repaint the footplate, but I will definitely re-do the red buffer beams and the coupling rods. Yes, the whole lot will get toned down from the gloss with a matt/satin spray clear-coat. In the background you can see an midland all-3rd bogie coach and a few wagons variously from Slaters, Skytrex and Parkside Dundas.

My own Hudswell Clarke has been pulled apart for a bit of tinkering. The smokebox was singled out to be repainted. I've given it some tamiya light grey primer followed by a coat of tamiya "rubber black." I'm given to understand that smokeboxes tendes to go a matt dark grey from the heat even if the rest of the locomotive stayed in a nice glossy sheen. The saddle tank and boiler are in undercoat after having the tank rounded off. Mine had two eather pronounced creases which I eventually decided had to go. Turned out to be a very easy matter of correcting this. The primer coat quickly shows if any further dressing up is needed. I'm a bit stumped on how to go about repainting the cab at the moment, although I did get the floor out and gave it a wash of Tamiya XF10 flat brown to make it look more like a timber plabked floor.

According to the lner page on the J64, the boilers were 3'8" in diameter, or 25.67mm in 7mm scale. 1" plastic pipe should suffice. It looks like you will be able to reuse the cab, though modifying it to fit with the side tanks. I was typing on a smart phone touch screen keyboard.

Paint the flywheel black and add crew figurines in the xab and you won't see them. In fact, tgis would be a good after market boy kit. Heck, I'd like a side tabk hudswell clarke!

What colour paint did you use for the inside of the cab? I've got mine apart at the moment and I want to paint the inside of the cab the light-buff sort of colour that they used on the prototype.

The ERTL model is way too small. Bachmann do a Thomas The Tank Engine "Henrietta" which could be adapted. It may be possible to splice two of them together to make a representation of the bogie coach, but it wouldn't be quite accurate. It would be near-enough and instantly recognisable as the coach though.

It looks good. Would almost be shame to weather it.

Wow... Just wow.

Surely someone produces a replacement gearset that improves the slow running. I find that a good PWM controller makes a huge difference.

Is the Y6 an easy build? I've often liked the W&U Tram locomotives (probably because of NWR No.7 "Toby") and might be tempted to get one further down the line, particularly if I can get a 4-wheel W&U coach.