Re: G1 class 22 build

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Simon Dunkley

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G1 class 22 build

Quick update...

No progress on the model, but I have put the postings on here onto my new website.

I will continue to cross-post, but may put fewer pictures on here.
 
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Simon Dunkley

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G1 class 22 build

Simon Dunkley said:
However, considerable modifications would need to be made to the bogies to accommodate this, and they are ear-marked for the class 29 (which will also need a lot of modifcation!) or maybe a Derby type 2...

The real thing was a B-B, not a Bo-Bo, and all wheels were driven in unison, providing excellent traction characteristics.
What I have in mind is to replicate this, with a Slater's FD01 gearboxes on each axle, connected via cardan shafts and UJs to a step-down gearbox from a large coreless motor (2642 bought for ?6 as surplus many years ago) in the body. Time will tell...
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The new wheelsets arrived today: they are a thing (or 4 things) of beauty and precision and may even spur me on to getting enough done in the garage to be able to approach the workbench.
I have purposely ordered them to Proto:32 standards, with the sole aim of seeing if they run as well as the ScaleOne32 set which will go into the 29. In theory there should be no issue, but we shall see!
Maybe.
 
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Simon Dunkley

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G1 class 22 build

Neil said:
Go to it Dunks; blue or green?
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Blue: it has to be, as I have made some modifications to it already!

When delivered, the locos had small brackets under the cab side windows, I believe for displaying the driver's name. In BYFE, they are no longer there. I was going to do D6327 in BSYE, but the photo I have of it at Horton Road shows the brackets still in place. Due to the roof panel options I have chosen, it will be in the series D6307-D6333: the latter appeals enormously as it was the only non-pilot batch loco with vents over the cab front windows, but this has been modelled already and more importantly, my location for any likely layout has drifted from "around Barnstaple" to "somewhere in the Forest of Dean", and D6333 was a Laira loco and Exeter-Barnstaple (and beyond) regular, hence my earlier request for information on blue Baby Warships in the Forest (preferabley BFYE). D6322 is another possible candidate, but I am not sure I could equal Trevor Hale's amazing weathering job on his model of it!

Note: several edits reuired to get images working, but software kept insert extra http:// in front of things, so I made them links.
 
iploffy

iploffy

OC Blue Brigade
G1 class 22 build

Mr Dunkley do we have an estimation on when the 22 will be built as I am thinking of doing the same idea of central can motor in 2 class 25's I have and was thinking of using an american outline donor vehicle to gice me the chasis.

Ian
 
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Simon Dunkley

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G1 class 22 build

iploffy said:
Mr Dunkley do we have an estimation on when the 22 will be built
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Steve Cook

Steve Cook

Flying Squad
G1 class 22 build

iploffy said:
Mr Dunkley do we have an estimation on when the 22 will be built ...snip
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:)) :))

The answer is Christmas.
The question is which year.......

28ten said:
You wouldn't want me to finish one first!  :))
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You'd be odds on favourite Guv. Its been six and half years in the making so far I think  ;D

Steve
 
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Simon Dunkley

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G1 class 22 build

iploffy said:
thought that might be the case well get your bloody finger out then
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No disrepect to the kit, but after the first burst of enthusiasm, I lost direction a bit, including with the hobby. At the time I also worked in the credit risk department of a regional building society, and we had rather a lot of work on for the regulatory authorities which was mentally draining - and that was before the economy hit the buffers, plus my son arrived and for about 2 years I did no modelling at all. I even avoided Templot for some weeks. Also, it's a hobby and given the number of deadlines in my professional life, I don't want them in my past time.

But you are all right: far more could have been achieved in the time, but ultimately it was my choice how to spend my time, and it could have been spent more profitably with just a little focus.
 
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Simon Dunkley

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G1 class 22 build

Steve Cook said:
iploffy said:
Mr Dunkley do we have an estimation on when the 22 will be built
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The answer is Christmas.
The question is which year.......

28ten said:
You wouldn't want me to finish one first!  :))
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You'd be odds on favourite Guv. Its been six and half years in the making so far I think  ;D

Steve
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Just to update people, questions of this nature can now be passed onto Mr. Cook of this parish, who has acquired said loco from me in its partially constructed state.
This is a very extreme version of passing the buck, I admit, but I have realised that my interests in 1:32 lean more towards things like mineral wagons and 08 shunters than NBL locos, otherwise my interests are more focused on 1:64 scale...
 
Jordan

Jordan

Mid-Western Thunderer
G1 class 22 build

iploffy said:
Mr Dunkley do we have an estimation on when the 22 will be built as I am thinking of doing the same idea of central can motor in 2 class 25's I have and was thinking of using an american outline donor vehicle to gice me the chassis.
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Sorry this is so late, but just to say you may get a chassis for the Class 25 from a Dark Side loco, but the truck (sorry, bogie) wheelbases will be waaaaaaaay out...... there isn't anything made on that side of the Pond that will match much made on this side.... :vista:
... as discussed a year ago in this thread  ;)
 
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