Crane Locomotives

[spikey faz]

Thanks for the kind words. Still a little way to go yet, but I feel like I'm on the home stretch now.

I know the prototype is not everyone's cup of tea and many folk would probably prefer to see an immaculate looking factory finish Dapol Terrier. But that would look just like a few hundred others. I like to try and personalise my RTR locos where possible.

Already thinking about my next (crane) project. Hmm.

Mike

 

[spikey faz]

I still can't make my mind up whether to number it as an Australian loco or have it numbered as a privately owned UK industrial loco. Maybe a contractor was on holiday in Australia, saw the crane loco, liked what he saw and bought one of the pensioned-off terriers when he returned to the UK to convert accordingly. My model is not 100% accurate and I'm mindful that the prototype appears to have the later brake blocks rather than the earlier wooden ones I've used.

Mike

 

[spikey faz]

Not quite finished as there's a bit of touching up of paintwork to be done. Plus it needs a toolbox and fireirons and maybe a driver.







When the sun comes out I'll try and take some better pictures.

Mike

 

[spikey faz]

Moody cab shot.

Mike

 

[Marc Dobson]

Stunning is the only thing I can say.

Marc

 

[spikey faz]

Stunning is the only thing I can say.

Marc

Cheers Marc. Makes all the worn out paint brushes (weathering) and burnt fingers (from soldering) worth the effort. I decided to number it 64 which was the number that the Terrier named 'Kemptown' had before it was withdrawn from service. I simply rescued it from the scrapheap and reconfigured it into a crane loco.

Mike

 

[Rob Pulham]

I have enjoyed following your progress with this as I have similar aspirations. I recently bought a Gladiator short jibbed crane kit with a view to converting either a J79 or Y7 into a J78 (NER Class H1) Crane loco. I will post up progress when I get that far.

 

[Marc Dobson]

Why convert when you could just buy our kit for the H1/J79. A lot less hassle.

Marc

 

[spikey faz]

I have enjoyed following your progress with this as I have similar aspirations. I recently bought a Gladiator short jibbed crane kit with a view to converting either a J79 or Y7 into a J78 (NER Class H1) Crane loco. I will post up progress when I get that far.

Hi Rob

Looking forward to your updates.

Mike

 

[spikey faz]

Why convert when you could just buy our kit for the H1/J79. A lot less hassle.
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Marc

Hi Marc

I didn't know you did a crane kit. Is this an etched kit?

Mike

 

[Marc Dobson]

Mostly etched 18thou NS but the boiler/firebox/smokebox are cast resin. it was designed before I discovered S7 so it has a rigid chassis. I currently working on NER 407, H2 with extended tanks, so I have the full set of small NER tank locos. Its listed on our loco page on the website.

Marc

 

[tomburnham]

For anyone else interested in the North Eastern Railway Class H1 the early version of of the crane tank looked like this, with a weather board rather than a cut down cab. The North Eastern Railway Association has a copy of the General Arrangement Drawing, just the thing for adding all those extra details.

Tom.

 

[Marc Dobson]

The kit has both as I had indented to build both. It was developed from the GAs held at the NRM. I should get round to building a second one.
Marc

 

[Rob Pulham]

Why convert when you could just buy our kit for the H1/J79. A lot less hassle.
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Marc

Thanks Marc,
I didn't know that you did a kit, sadly I already have the loco and have just bought the crane so I will work with what I have.

 

[Caggers]

Hi Marc,

For the uninitiated, where is 'our kit' available from?

I have been following this thread and would love s loco crane is build to S7.

Regards
Simon

 

[Dog Star]

For the uninitiated, where is 'our kit' available from?

Here and scroll down a while.

 

[Marc Dobson]

Sorry! I should have posted the link with the photo. My hobby is S7 but the business is 7mm and 1/32 kits and ready to run with the odd bit of 4mm thrown into the pot.

Marc

 

[spikey faz]

One of the collective nouns to describe a group of cranes (the feathered variety) is 'construction'. So, here we have a 'construction' of crane locos (groan)

Mike

 

[Allen M]

So, here we have a 'construction' of crane locos (groan)

Hi Mike
That made me 'drop my gib' as my mom called it when I look miserable.
Terrible jokes aside, lovely work.
Regards
Allen Morgan

 

[spikey faz]

Thanks Allen.

I had a bit of time off from railway modelling as redecorating took precedence. Now back in the groove again. Your comments help make it all worthwhile. I'll have to think up some more jokes when I post again.

Mike