7mm Pete's workbench. LMS 2P or madness in a box.

[Peter Cross]

The F1 frames are together, just needs some of the radial horn checks fitting and adjusting. Hopefully tonight I'll get the drivers in and test the running. Mind you I still need to clean up the coupling rods.





The Jubilee is now black and green. Photos when I can handle it.

 

[Peter Cross]

Bit late in the build but we'll start from where I am now with the build and possible do a prequel later on.

This is being built from an old Oakville kit which is showing its age. Will be 45721 in BR green with welded tender.

State of play now is the tender is complete ready for a good clean and priming.








The loco is coming on but slowly. The kit had white metal cast brakes. So these needed altering to brass along with the motion bracket and associated mounting for the expansion link. As you can see the frames are almost done. With the wheels on the everything goes around as it should including connecting rods and crossheads. Rest of the valve gear is fettled but not fitted.







Footplate, cab, firebox and boiler all fit together. Boiler yet to be fixed, probably by screws. Smoke box saddle is too long and needs shortening. The main problems here were the firebox which when I made with the kit parts I could not get to fit, and the cab was to wide.







More soon I hope. I'm hoping that this week I can get some painting done and catch up a bit. There's my 0395 to finish and a MR1262 as well. And the lads Thomas has not even seen primer as yet.

 

[Peter Cross]

As I can only do the loco lining in daylight, and I only get an hour or so a day to work on the locos.

A new project for the evenings in the workshop was required. Just for a change a carriage. It's a Maunsell corridor composite, to Dia2302. It is a Classic Scale Models kit with Slater's etched bogies. The carriage is unstated but one of the bogies had been partly assembled, but inside out. So before doing anything else the thing was made back into a kit to see if it would survive enough to reassemble.
Fortunately it will, although it's in a few more parts than its brother. It's strange how many of my builds start of by turning it back into a kit of parts.

Already for reassembly.




Looking forward to this, as it will be a change from locos, might spur me on to do my LSWR corridors, for myself.

 

[Peter Cross]

As the Dean's good is in painting thought I'd start something else. It was going to be the RR R class 0-6-2T but I've not got a trailing wheel as yet. It'll at least a month or so before it arrives.

So I thought I would start the College Models 2P I got from the guilds executor service. Complete with wheels and motor. Not much was done but what was, was very poor. So back to kit form. So now we have a box of bits with no instruction. I think there may be bits left unless I can find some.
So to the start of the rebuild. Coupling rods, as you can see I've already brushed them to a matching pair. Top is the one nearly complete the Lower shows what I started with. Yes I should of got some new ones, but it would take months to get here.



More soon maybe.