Ruston

I know what it is that's been bugging me about this kit now. The windows are too large.

13 hours ago, MikeParkin65 said:

For info though I admit this would have been far more helpful if I'd taken photo's but I found a small 6 pin wired harness Zimo decoder fits without modification with the Hornby 6 pin socket black tacked  on top of the motor, the decoder tacked on top of the gearbox and the wires carefully coiled and secured below the decoder. I think a direct 6 pin decoder would also fit but a speaker for sound and stay alive if desired would I think have to go into the cab. 

A SA needs to go in the cab but if that suppressor thing is removed from the motor, an ESU speaker will fit in front of the motor. I used a 6 pin Zimo MS500 that plugs directly into the Hornby socket and saves having extra wires to fit in.

The lack of market interest in a tension lock coupler for O may have something to do with them looking bloody awful! 3-links are large enough in O to be used quite easily, so why anyone would want to disfigure their models by ADDING such a thing is beyond me.

In any scale you'll get people going on about this detail isn't right, or that isn't right on a model but they seem to be able to live with these ruddy great ugly and unprototypical couplings stuck on the ends of everything.

Three on the go but not all are mine. It's a mix and match job to get what we want.

First up is the one for Blacker Lane.

This uses the chassis from the BR green one, frames from the Rowntree and bodywork from the BR blue one to give a mid period 20-ton type.

Next is for my friend Scott's half of Sevastopol Works, where it will be a quite new loco, so is in Ruston works livery, or as near as.

This uses the chassis and frames from the BR blue one and the bodywork from the BR green one. The lack of buffer beam weights is ideal for conversion to block buffers, which is what it will have when I've finished with it. The full-length side weights suit the early period. The frame has been painted green but needs a better colour match yet. The roof will also be painted green.

Last is for use at Charlie Strong's yard since I sold my Judith Edge kit-built 88DS that ran on there.

This uses the chassis from the Rowntree one, the frame from the BR green one and the late type bodywork, with larger windows, from the Rowntree one. The white roof has already been painted but, like the other one, requires a better colour match. The frame will also go green and so this is a late model 17-ton type when finished. That exhaust will be painted. White? What were they thinking?

This one is a bit of a mystery but then again maybe not. It's in Middlesborough, photo taken by Keith Long in May 1959. A white, or possibly  yellow 48DS with dark lining. It would have been brand new back then. (Flickr, clickable pic)

There were 3 48DS of similar vintage in the area - 402808 of 1956, of Harrison Bros. foundry, which is pictured earlier in this thread and was painted in the usual lined green and had jacking points under the buffers, so it can't be that. 411318 of 1957 of the Owners Of The Middlesborough Estates Ltd. also pictured in this thread and in green, with oval/double height buffers, so not that one either.

Some lettering is visible above the open engine casing doors and it could be 417891 that was new in May 1959 to Michael Baum Ltd. Scrap dealer, Cleveland Dockyard, Scotts Rd. Middlesborough. A very strange choice of colour for the time, especially if it was white!

Here we go again.

BR lettering, numbering and crests removed. Roof off. Buffers off. They seem to have used more glue on this one as the bodywork is extremely reluctant to leave the frame. I may have to put a slit in the underside for the wires that will connect the Stay Alive, in the cab, to the decoder, under the bonnet. It will also mean repainting the bodywork in situ. I haven't decided how that will go yet. If it remains in what is more or less Ruston's factory livery I will paint the roof to match the rest but I'm thinking that it would be nice in Hargreaves orange to run on Blacker Lane. I already have a fictional steam loco on there, so one of my favourite type of diesels deserves a place there. It's Modeller's Licence, not... No, I can barely bring myself to type the words... Rule 1

3 hours ago, cctransuk said:

 

If they HAD to make this mistake, they could at least have done so on the opposite side, so that it faces forward! It'll be the very devil to correct, as it overlaps the cabside lining.

 

How do these b*lls-ups occur - does no-one check? If it's the factory's fault - send 'em back and demand correct replacements!

 

CJI.

It's not the factory at fault. They were shown like that in the original renderings, which also showed it with the front of the bonnet being painted black and with the side weights of the 20-ton version. I'm sure I mentioned these two things on here and those faults didn't make it to the finished model, so perhaps Hornby do read these comments? I never noticed the crests and I'm not sure anyone else here mentioned it either. Then again it's not our job to do their research for them! I had assumed that Hornby employ someone to do all this stuff; I certainly know that they did but he left for better things a number of years ago and so it's probably the office cat that does it now.

It won't stay looking like that for long. I'll have that BR lettering, numbering and crest off for a start!

15 hours ago, 33C said:

William Pepper inspired?

British Oak opencast Disposal Point, operated by Wm. Pepper/Hargreaves. Full story here -

3 hours ago, Barry O said:

I take it you have some Judith Edge etches to make the 21T hoppers a bit better?

 

And, in Leeds there is a bar opposite what was the Poly main building which is a complete barge? It's a bar but it has impressive Hull shapes..

 

Baz

I've seen that, yes.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8043352,-1.5480045,3a,75y,79.74h,91.08t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1spDYfZoPYzFsBSd5SvmbiHg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DpDYfZoPYzFsBSd5SvmbiHg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D97.8752%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

I don't know anything about the etches. They're not on the JE UK model shops page.

7 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Do you know the origins of this kit? This is a prototype I'd be keen to model in 7mm scale, but they have a lot of subtle differences from the normal LNER hoppers.

Cheers,

Mol

Dave Bradwell, IIRC.