welshwizard
Western Thunderer
Love the colours over the Firebox/boiler/smokebox.
dibateg
Western Thunderer
After numerous holidays its now back to the rain and the excuse for doing some modelling. After finishing some wagons off, it is back to the 8F tender in a concerted effort to finish it! Now I am on to the body and the first job is to form the curve in at the tops of the sides. Easy, you might think, but I struggled, it was like trying to bend a spring. I had to resort to annealing the sides at the risk of distortion with the miniature blowtorch. It seemed to work and I was able to form them using my home made bending bars and the edge of the workbench. So here is the colourful result:-
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
The last time I saw a tender body with as many holes the thing was beside the sea-side and rotting in time to the nearby fun-fair.
Being serious, I am intrigued by all of the holes in those sides and I shall be very interested to see the story un-fold.
regards, Graham
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
I bet Tony doesn't want to see it unfold after the trouble he went to to bend it in the first place
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
I bet Tony doesn't want to see it unfold after the trouble he went to to bend it in the first place
Pay attention when you are out on rhubarb harvest duties... I was referring to the forthcoming "story" rather than an un-zipping of the tender tank during later stages of assembly...
regards, Graham
BTW - you have had all of those track components for a month now and no photos posted as yet. Hurry along with the plan at least
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
BTW - you have had all of those track components for a month now and no photos posted as yet. Hurry along with the plan at least
There was me hoping that you hadn't noticed
- fat chance!
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
There was me hoping that you hadn't noticed
OK - I shall say no more on the subject just in case I get asked to do something.
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
Thank you, I am interested to see how you proceed with those overlays.
regards, Graham
dibateg
Western Thunderer
So here is the result of an evenings work, only the bulkheads, fire iron tunnel and forward air vents have been soldered so far. All the rest is held in place by tabs. There was some minor fettling here and there, but otherwise it fits together very well. This was good stage to leave it at last night, before I commit the soldering iron. So I've been looking it over at intervals during the day.. just need to make sure the tabs are fully pulled through.
dibateg
Western Thunderer
The Derby Line has been a bit quiet due to other stuff going on, but I'm now on my weathering jobs whilst the 8F awaits final testing
The K3 has received some more attention to tone it down, I'm now at the stage where I visit them every day and tweak the weathering. It can take a week or so!
And Rogers 8F is nearly finished:-
The K3 has received some more attention to tone it down, I'm now at the stage where I visit them every day and tweak the weathering. It can take a week or so!
And Rogers 8F is nearly finished:-
Scanlon
Western Thunderer
Awesome,
Roger
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
Very Nice Tony
TheSnapper
Western Thunderer
Scanlon
Western Thunderer
Hi Mike,great work again Tony, I'm glad to see that it a model of one of the better built prototypes - built on the South coast
cheers
Mike
Built at Brighton for LNER, well you can't get everything right can you. Guilplates came up trumps with the worksplates because they are 4 lines on them rather than the usual two or three. They read LNER, BUILT, SR, 1944.
Loco was a dog when I got it, had to boil it to undo the dubious build, Clive Neal rebuilt the frames rest of the bodge is mine.
Roger