AJC
Western Thunderer
Yes, it's the Bachmann one - dad has the MSE version and a Cambrian. I know that there's the Chivers' kit out there as well but four is certainly too many!
Adam
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Yes, it's the Bachmann one - dad has the MSE version and a Cambrian. I know that there's the Chivers' kit out there as well but four is certainly too many!
Adam
AJC
Western Thunderer
It is a common affliction, which is strange, given how much hassle the things are; all those brake shoes, handrails, lamps...
Adam
AJC
Western Thunderer
A host of lamp irons. I seem to have been making these for weeks, but it's one of those jobs, yet again, that once you're in a groove, you may as well keep going. So first the aft of the tender for my M&GN 0-6-0. These are all folded over from shim per Iain Rice's little sketches and soldered to a length of 0.45mm wire being pinned into the back of the tender. Yes, the plates are completely wrong, but unaccountably no one does M&GN tender plates, though under paint you'll never tell, and their presence is necessary.
Note that the top iron protrudes further out because of the flare of the tender. You can see the same thing on the bunker of my Mainline/High Level pannier whose prototype was subject to Eastleigh's ministrations, so got Southern pattern irons to go with the GW ones, including GW-pattern in SR positions. GW irons via Masokits, plain from scrap etch.
At the front end, only the smokebox has it's full compliment - note that the centre iron is slightly further forward than the outer pair on these. On 8745 (and two Weymouth engines, 7780 and 7782), the SR position irons were mounted on the smokebox by means of a pair of triangular brackets. Ugly, but fun to model.
Obviously, there's more of these, but how many do you really need to see?
Adam
Note that the top iron protrudes further out because of the flare of the tender. You can see the same thing on the bunker of my Mainline/High Level pannier whose prototype was subject to Eastleigh's ministrations, so got Southern pattern irons to go with the GW ones, including GW-pattern in SR positions. GW irons via Masokits, plain from scrap etch.
At the front end, only the smokebox has it's full compliment - note that the centre iron is slightly further forward than the outer pair on these. On 8745 (and two Weymouth engines, 7780 and 7782), the SR position irons were mounted on the smokebox by means of a pair of triangular brackets. Ugly, but fun to model.
Obviously, there's more of these, but how many do you really need to see?
Adam
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AJC
Western Thunderer
All the footplate irons on now, the offsets are odd, but prototypical.
Again per the late Rice, I’ve opened out the injector detail under the tank and fitted new buffers. I should probably be working on other things but it’s quite satisfying to work up the detail on several things at once.
Adam
Again per the late Rice, I’ve opened out the injector detail under the tank and fitted new buffers. I should probably be working on other things but it’s quite satisfying to work up the detail on several things at once.
Adam
AJC
Western Thunderer
These are quite nice. The SR-liveried vehicles were a win on eBay for very little money and will go in the '30s freight train, or perhaps a subsidiary cattle special (an excuse for a second brakevan)?
Anyway, the two cattle wagons are very nice scratchbuilds in plastic sheet. They must be of an age going on the fittings which are a mix of ABS (for the LSWR one) and Kenline, I think - the SR, Maunsell, van has GWR axleboxes. The Hornby one in BR livery is awaiting better brakeshoes nearer the wheels than the chaps from Margate offer and I suppose I now have a use for the rest of the ABS brakeshoes I have for that project.
These two basically want new couplings and maybe some attention to the lettering before commissioning. The gunpowder van is pure Adrian Swain and very nice it is too. I'm not at all sure that the tare number should actually be where it is, but I can change that...
Oh, there was a Ratio van with these as well, which has been allocated to Sodor, or rather, will be, just as soon as I've sorted out sticking the roof on.
Adam
Anyway, the two cattle wagons are very nice scratchbuilds in plastic sheet. They must be of an age going on the fittings which are a mix of ABS (for the LSWR one) and Kenline, I think - the SR, Maunsell, van has GWR axleboxes. The Hornby one in BR livery is awaiting better brakeshoes nearer the wheels than the chaps from Margate offer and I suppose I now have a use for the rest of the ABS brakeshoes I have for that project.
These two basically want new couplings and maybe some attention to the lettering before commissioning. The gunpowder van is pure Adrian Swain and very nice it is too. I'm not at all sure that the tare number should actually be where it is, but I can change that...
Oh, there was a Ratio van with these as well, which has been allocated to Sodor, or rather, will be, just as soon as I've sorted out sticking the roof on.
Adam
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Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
AJC
Western Thunderer
There were quite a few - perhaps a dozen panniers, for example. The three locos noted above (7780, 7782, 8745), all the Folkestone panniers had the extra lamp irons, but I don't think the latter had the GWR type irons as well. 4666 got an SR pattern batter box for its AWS, too. There were also several - I haven't checked how many - Standard 4 4-6-0s.
Here's 75003:
And 75000 (both Yeovil engines, as it happens):
Note that both only had the GW pattern irons in SR positions.
The more you look, the more you get to see.
Adam