I was thinking more on the line of lead, solder and filler, the backhead casting has some weight. Hopefully I'll get time this evening to read the instructions for the next step on the chassis On the other hand, I have ordered a few books from Amazon The London and South Western Railway: Locomotive Drawings in 7mm Scale (Portfolio) LSWR Carriages: Non-passenger Carriage Stock v. 3 An illustrated history of Southern wagons, volume one: LSWR and S&DJR: L.S.W.R. and D.J.R Vol 1 The LSWR West Country Lines: Then and Now looks like there may be a few scratchbuilding projects to come Paul
LSWR Paul...? Sounds like the books will be useful to you. I already have a copy of 'An illustrated history of Southern wagons, volume one: LSWR and S&DJR: L.S.W.R. and D.J.R Vol 1' and also An illustrated history of Southern wagons, volume two: LBSCR and Minor Companies. These books have excelent pics and diagrams... From the Vol 1 : LSWR and S&DJR... and from Vol 2 : LBSCR and Minor Companies... Cheers, Gary.
My research material has arrived over the last couple of days So the intention is to build a small starter layout based on the Gauge O guilds £100 starter layout, but as I have access to a traverser that will be my fiddle yard, instead of using a sector plate. It will be based in the West Country on LSWR rails. Hence the above collection of books. Loco's will be Nellie with a fictitious BR number, an ex LSBCR Terrier 0-6-0T and the ex SECR P class 0-6-0T with primarily freight stock, but maybe a single passenger coach - or maybe even borrow Toto's GWR rail coach - I can't believe I've just said that So I'd better get my finger out and get Nellie back on track. Paul
A little spare time, so back to Nellie Next up the smoke box - I've not been looking forward to this bit. The wrapper needed rolling to form the basic shape, then soldered in place, there are some half etched lines to help align the wrapper on to the former. Working on both sides to get a good join Jim provides a whitemetal casting to act as a spacer / support for the back face, so the inside was tinned with solder, then the spacer was placed into position and low melt solder (100C) was used to hold it in place. And now to fit the back piece, fiddly but doable. There are 4 locating tabs to insert the smoke box into the running plate - I just couldn't resist And with the boiler Bit more cleaning up on the smokebox, then the boiler bands Lots of cleaning up here 1st band getting close Time for bed now I think Paul
Hi Paul, you have done a great job there. Forming the boiler band at the end looks a bit intimidating but you have it spot on. Its cleaning up well too. ..... eh ...... did you use the words " spare time " there by any chance ...... thats dangerous.
Looking good Paul, The white metal former inside the smokebox is another bit that I hadn't known was missing from my 2nd hand kit - I just built it without.
Toto wrote: I may have but not being aware that it was missing I packed the side tanks with lead sheet.
Think I'll be doing the same - not good with heights, so will buy some roof flashing from the DIY store. Also as the motor is mounted vertically, I may 3D print the lower part of the boiler and attach it to the motor as a holder for the DCC decoder and stay-alive. May have it done for the forum coming back online Paul
Maybe, but have you a. Taken it out of the box b. assembled it c. read the instructions on how to use it
Well the last week wasn't a complete no modelling zone, (don't tell Toto) but I did get a little done on Nellie. With the vertical motor mount has allowed me have space to hide the motor from the front and give a representation of the bottom half of the boiler between the side tanks. I've 3D printed the bottom half of the boiler, it wraps around the motor and will provide a tray to hold the decoder Paul
Excellent Paul, I am gald that you at least managed a little modelling in amongst to help keep you sane.
Cheers guy's got a little done when everything was quiet at the start when all we could do was wait. Need to get back on track and also do abit on another bridge too far, but that's another thread Paul