RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 24, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 24, 2016 After a period of not doing much on 1368 due to other stuff going on, it's probably time for an update... I've mostly been working on small stuff, and it's taken a while as it's required reworking some existing bits and scratch building others: 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 24, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 24, 2016 Parts fitted: 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 24, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 24, 2016 And in other news, the parts for the new chassis arrived last week: 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted September 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2016 It's starting look like the dogs dangly bits!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted September 25, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2016 Where abouts on the loco does the penny fit? Not seen one of them on a loco before. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 25, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2016 Where abouts on the loco does the penny fit? Not seen one of them on a loco before. Paul, there's 10,000s of them gone into tarting up this #@!%#@! kit ;-p Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 25, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2016 It's starting look like the dogs dangly bits!! Thanks chap. With the body atleast, I'm starting to see the light at the end of a very long tunnel. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 25, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2016 Today I'll be adding the L shaped fillet between the cab and top of the firebox/tanks. This is complicated by the kit parts being too big, not fitting and the GWR love of curves. I shall be delving into the box of scrap etch again. I've also noticed there's a lump on the top of the firebox on the driver's side next to the cab sheet. No idea what this is for but it's absent from the kit and needs fitting first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 25, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2016 Current state of play: 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Chris Assuming DCC, which chip, and where? Mine is currently a non-sound Zimo, under the cab, with KA in the tanks, but when I have it apart to fit the cylinder drain cocks, I want to fit a sound decoder & speaker. I was hoping that Heljan/Hattons would have brought out the 4mm version, prompting someone to go out & record the real thing and do a project. Unfortunately, this seems to be in the Dapol "don't hold your breath" category at the mo'. What are your thoughts? Best Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tove Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 I`ve been following along,all be it quitely!. And i have to say, i admire your perseverance and determination with this. I think i`d have given up awhile ago...... Regards, Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 25, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2016 Curious lump and L section added (not easy curving L section!): Now off to see a donkey... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 25, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2016 I`ve been following along,all be it quitely!. And i have to say, i admire your perseverance and determination with this. I think i`d have given up awhile ago...... Regards, Brian. Welcome along Mr Snail! Thanks for the comments. Perseverance and determination...don't forget I gave up with it for two years! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 25, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2016 Chris Assuming DCC, which chip, and where? Mine is currently a non-sound Zimo, under the cab, with KA in the tanks, but when I have it apart to fit the cylinder drain cocks, I want to fit a sound decoder & speaker. I was hoping that Heljan/Hattons would have brought out the 4mm version, prompting someone to go out & record the real thing and do a project. Unfortunately, this seems to be in the Dapol "don't hold your breath" category at the mo'. What are your thoughts? Best Simon Yes, it's going to be DCC and sound. The ABC gearbox and Maxon motor hopefully means i can get away with a small chip again. There's space in the boiler and tank for the chip and i've got a pair of speakers to fit front and aft between the frames. I too was hoping that the RTR version coming out would prompt somebody doing a sound recording for it. No rush, but failing a specific 1366 recording i think i'll go with a pannier one. Long way off that point yet! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeHemmings Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 A donkey are they rtr or in kit form,I hear that they can be a bit Smelly at times. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 (edited) Curious lump is probably a cover for lubricator oil pipes from sight feed to cylinders. NB, educated guess, hence "probably"... Not sure about the sound chip from a pannier. Logically, yes, it would have a GW type whistle, and a GW type blast pipe, but I'm not sure if the smaller cylinders firebox & smoke box might not have an effect on the sound. Also, and I guess this is not a problem you face, I don't want all my panniers sounding exactly the same! (I currently have three, and that number will rise when the Minerva 57 arrives in correct bib & tucker - sadly not the first batch). I wonder if he sound project from the Minerva Peckett might not be more apt, but I've got one of them, too... Maybe different speakers would make the sounds just different enough? Best Simon Edit - sorry - all my locos, even the Crailcrest ones, have "H0" chips. Edited September 25, 2016 by Simond Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 25, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2016 A donkey are they rtr or in kit form,I hear that they can be a bit Smelly at times. Mike Yes they smell worse than horses. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tove Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Welcome along Mr Snail! Thanks for the comments. Perseverance and determination...don't forget I gave up with it for two years! Phaa...two years,that`s nothing to a Snail!!..... If it had of been me,it would either have been sold off or binned!. BTW,it`s looking really good.... Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dan Randall Posted September 25, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2016 (edited) I've been unable to quote Worsdell forever's post #1443 for some reason, but funnily enough, I found a use for a penny on my (as yet unfinished), 7mm scale MRJ Project "Wantage Tramway No.5" build. I needed to blank the front of the boiler off (made from 22mm copper pipe), to enable me to attach it to the smokebox and not having access to a lathe, I discovered a penny was just the right size.... Regards Dan Edited September 25, 2016 by Dan Randall 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I read that series in MRJ (I think I still have them) and did consider... Looks like you managed very well with the X-Y table for the smoke box riveting! Nice! Best Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 24, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 24, 2016 Cylinders duly measured in their current unclad state on 1363 Overall length from the outer end of the nuts on the front (which will probably touch the inside of the false front cover) to the back end of the casting a ting bit over 30inches. Assuming the cover goes on flush against the nuts/studs I think the overall length will be as near to 31 inches as makes no difference. The maximum outer diameter of the unclad cylinder casting is 21 inches to which will be added some 1/8th inch plate and probably a bit of lagging but the latter should not push the plate out any further so 21 inches can be considered as the workable dimension. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted October 24, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2016 Superb many thanks Mike. Super helpful with fantastic info yet again. So about 18.1mm long by 12.25diam. Will be interesting to see how useable the Agenoria ones, or parts from, are. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted April 5, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5, 2018 Good reference photos of 1368: https://www.flickr.com/photos/64215236@N03/25983629465/in/photolist-fxVL6N-FA5TMt-JX8cZv-axiQBK/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/96859208@N07/9550295416/in/photolist-fxVL6N-FA5TMt-JX8cZv-axiQBK/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Is it me or is there a step hanging in front of the right hand cylinder in the photo of it next to 1369? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted April 5, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5, 2018 Is it me or is there a step hanging in front of the right hand cylinder in the photo of it next to 1369? Yup, another score for GWR standardisation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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