Milthar

Hi all I recently got this Parkside Dundas ffestiniog railway Blanche kit

on the packaging it states that it's designed for an Ibertren 0-4-0 chassis, I was wondering if there's any substitutes I could use since it seems that Ibertren doesn't produce any 0-4-0s anymore and I can't find any second hand

thanks in advance

39 minutes ago, lofty1966 said:

How easy are these to build? I'm still rather new to kitbuilding and haven't built any etched kits to date

21 minutes ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

Down to brass tacks now. Do you actually know the wheelbase and wheel diameter of this 1854 class? Boiler diameter and boiler centreline height are helpful too. (Ideally you want to obtain a dimensioned drawing for the class, unless the kit has one in the box already.)

 

Knowing relatively little about GWR locos, I proposed the current Bachmann 57xx mechanism, which has the standard 'Crewe' wheelbase which the GWR copied for several of their 0-6-0 classes. There are other options in RTR OO mechanisms, but without knowing these key dimensions it is a guessing game. (The one not to consider is Hornby's 0-6-0 'universal' mechanism, possessed of a wheelbase unknown in UK 0-6-0s, and not a good runner either.)

They had wheels of 4 ft 6 in diameter and a wheelbase of 15 ft 6 in

Most of them had the standard p class boiler (10'3" barrel length, 4'5" barrel diameter and 5'4" firebox length)

The problem is that its an open cabbed loco so most mechanisms dont fit all that well

4 hours ago, lofty1966 said:

Bachmann chassis will have the wrong wheel spacing.

Buy the SE Finecast etched chassis, it's an excellent piece of kit!

Unfortunately not a good option for me since I live in australia and the postage cost would be prohibitively expensive.

I had considered using a chassis from a Hornby 2721 but it looks like the 2721

is a little bit larger so I doubt the 1854 body would fit

Hi all,

I recently got this Wills Finecast GWR 1854 class kit

I was wondering what modern RTR chassis I could get that would fit this body

Thanks in advance

Soaking the model in a degreaser like simple green dissolves the super glue and makes it easy to remove, unfortunately this also strips the paint

You can also put the superglue affected model into a freezer for an hour or so, this will make the super glue brittle and easy to remove