Hi All,
This is my first post, for those of you who also frequent the GOG forum these may have an uncanny similarity... Anyway here's a few notes on this build. I already have a George V class from David's old Javelin range and this kit is the same one that also allows the build of the original and rebuilt Precursor. For this build I want the rebuilt, superheated form - so almost identical to the George V but with separate splashers rather than a single joint one. I'd also like an original one but David's had the temerity to retire...! (Have a good one David...
).
This one's going to be "Tamerlane" primarily because there's a photo of it at Manchester so I'm reckoning it may well have shown up at Crook Street.
Anyway... Here's the tender - all very straightforward in typical DA style. I added the water feed pipes as the only extra.
I always have trouble with the adhesive qualities of 4-4-0s so I thought I'd try and compensate this one. There's convenient equalising beams supplied in the kit so I used those, the idea being to have a floating motor/gearbox with the load-bearing fulcrum being equidistant between the drivers - the other one being the bogie pivot. Hitherto, I've built them sprung so let's see if my Grand Experiment works out...
Here's the arrangements with the wheel bearings soldered to the beams and allowed to slide in slots in the frames coincedent with the axle holes
At this stage I thought I'd better build the bogie...:
And lo... I had a runner - well ok, a push-along - after I'd opened out the coupling rod holes - not because of some dimensional slack in the kit but my rubbish soldering up of the rods...
:
I've since tested it with a motor in and, with a tad more opening of the coupling rods, all is ok. I run DCC but prefer to test on DC as it shows up all the tight spots that the feedback DCC chips smooth out. I might furkle with the bogie mount to more accurately set the ride height rather than the as-supplied spring arrangement ....or I might do that at the end when I know how heavy and front loaded the body is, let's see.
Cheers
Allan
This is my first post, for those of you who also frequent the GOG forum these may have an uncanny similarity... Anyway here's a few notes on this build. I already have a George V class from David's old Javelin range and this kit is the same one that also allows the build of the original and rebuilt Precursor. For this build I want the rebuilt, superheated form - so almost identical to the George V but with separate splashers rather than a single joint one. I'd also like an original one but David's had the temerity to retire...! (Have a good one David...
).This one's going to be "Tamerlane" primarily because there's a photo of it at Manchester so I'm reckoning it may well have shown up at Crook Street.
Anyway... Here's the tender - all very straightforward in typical DA style. I added the water feed pipes as the only extra.
I always have trouble with the adhesive qualities of 4-4-0s so I thought I'd try and compensate this one. There's convenient equalising beams supplied in the kit so I used those, the idea being to have a floating motor/gearbox with the load-bearing fulcrum being equidistant between the drivers - the other one being the bogie pivot. Hitherto, I've built them sprung so let's see if my Grand Experiment works out...
Here's the arrangements with the wheel bearings soldered to the beams and allowed to slide in slots in the frames coincedent with the axle holes
At this stage I thought I'd better build the bogie...:
And lo... I had a runner - well ok, a push-along - after I'd opened out the coupling rod holes - not because of some dimensional slack in the kit but my rubbish soldering up of the rods...
:I've since tested it with a motor in and, with a tad more opening of the coupling rods, all is ok. I run DCC but prefer to test on DC as it shows up all the tight spots that the feedback DCC chips smooth out. I might furkle with the bogie mount to more accurately set the ride height rather than the as-supplied spring arrangement ....or I might do that at the end when I know how heavy and front loaded the body is, let's see.
Cheers
Allan
