davey4270
Western Thunderer
No.1. The Prologue.
I've been requested to post a blog on this build. I won't do another blow by blow build blog as I feel it is repeating already posted blogs as with my previous Crymlyn A Shop techniques covering ex Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr 2195 CWM MAWR, 3F 47655, Ex Rhymney Railway 38, Ex Port Talbot Railway 816, Barry Railway F class 726 and L&MMR 704. I will, however, post occasional updates with pictures and a brief comment.
I have always liked small GWR pannier tanks and wanted a model of 1371 which was trialled at Dan y Graig in the 1930's. They weren't impressed and it was sent back. The kits on the market were rejected for various reasons and I built a vaguely similar ex CM&DPLR 29 to compensate. I was pleasantly surprised one day when helping a friend on his model stand at the recent Kettering GOG show that CSP models had acquired the ex Eric Underhill range and were in the process of updating the castings with the various kits. Pride of place in the centre of their stand was an almost complete 1366 class model. I have a close friend who has also wanted one of these so I ordered a pair of kits and will build his in tandem.
1371 outside the ex Rhondda & Swansea Bay Railway's Dan y graig shed in the 1930's.
Two pictures of the 1366 class kit on the CSP Models stand at Kettering GOG.
The pair of kits.
A pair of footplates.
The black stain on the raised rivets is from Carr's black for brass which stops solder from flooding the areas treated.
A cleaned up footplate etch with rivets raised and cut outs for the Slater's sprung horn blocks that I will fit to the leading and driven axles. (Apparently driven axle is the railway term for the axle driven by the cylinders so not the gear driven axle of the model). The fold down valve chest rear has not been cleanly etched through and needs to be freed up before folding down into position. This will also act as a spacer. Eric Underhill's name is etched into the fret. One of the horn blocks is placed in position and was used to estimate the size of the cuts.
The three laminations of the rear pair of coupling rods were soldered together and the bar part cleaned up while the excess solder on the bosses was left until after the holes were reamed out to suit the Slater's crank pin bushes. This helps to strengthen the bosses during the reaming process as they can delaminate with over enthusiastic reaming. Always let the tool do the work as you can't push a tool through metal, wood or plastic like a knife through butter. My extended axle jig still holding the horn blocks in position after tack soldering. Also visible in the picture are the two small frame spacers I added.
I've been requested to post a blog on this build. I won't do another blow by blow build blog as I feel it is repeating already posted blogs as with my previous Crymlyn A Shop techniques covering ex Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr 2195 CWM MAWR, 3F 47655, Ex Rhymney Railway 38, Ex Port Talbot Railway 816, Barry Railway F class 726 and L&MMR 704. I will, however, post occasional updates with pictures and a brief comment.
I have always liked small GWR pannier tanks and wanted a model of 1371 which was trialled at Dan y Graig in the 1930's. They weren't impressed and it was sent back. The kits on the market were rejected for various reasons and I built a vaguely similar ex CM&DPLR 29 to compensate. I was pleasantly surprised one day when helping a friend on his model stand at the recent Kettering GOG show that CSP models had acquired the ex Eric Underhill range and were in the process of updating the castings with the various kits. Pride of place in the centre of their stand was an almost complete 1366 class model. I have a close friend who has also wanted one of these so I ordered a pair of kits and will build his in tandem.
1371 outside the ex Rhondda & Swansea Bay Railway's Dan y graig shed in the 1930's.
Two pictures of the 1366 class kit on the CSP Models stand at Kettering GOG.
The pair of kits.
A pair of footplates.
The black stain on the raised rivets is from Carr's black for brass which stops solder from flooding the areas treated.
A cleaned up footplate etch with rivets raised and cut outs for the Slater's sprung horn blocks that I will fit to the leading and driven axles. (Apparently driven axle is the railway term for the axle driven by the cylinders so not the gear driven axle of the model). The fold down valve chest rear has not been cleanly etched through and needs to be freed up before folding down into position. This will also act as a spacer. Eric Underhill's name is etched into the fret. One of the horn blocks is placed in position and was used to estimate the size of the cuts.
The three laminations of the rear pair of coupling rods were soldered together and the bar part cleaned up while the excess solder on the bosses was left until after the holes were reamed out to suit the Slater's crank pin bushes. This helps to strengthen the bosses during the reaming process as they can delaminate with over enthusiastic reaming. Always let the tool do the work as you can't push a tool through metal, wood or plastic like a knife through butter. My extended axle jig still holding the horn blocks in position after tack soldering. Also visible in the picture are the two small frame spacers I added.
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