taliesin
Western Thunderer
The more eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that i advertised recently for a Fred Phipps Class 22. Well i have arranged to buy Steve Cook's part built one but like buses another appeared on the RM Web so after some thought i took the plunge and purchased that as well. My thinking behind this was that i could build one for running on G1MRA tracks with radio control and build the other to 'finescale' tolerances with track power, bodies to be swapped at will.
Friday saw me picking up the one advertised on RM Web from Rugby on my way to North Wales.
This one has had the body largely completed with painting and weathering and i do think it looks rather good
This has been done to depict the engine shortly before being withdrawn and i reckon he has done a good job of it.
The not so good bit is that he has made a start on the chassis and by his own admission he is not too good with metal, or the soldering of.
Having spent the weekend in Wales i could do little other than read, and re-read Fred's comprehensive instructions and look at the various parts.
Arriving home today i was able to make a bit of a start. Basically the nickel silver chassis had been folded up, rather badly, especially the bottom edges on the middle section which looked like needle nose pliers had been used a bit at a time but worse was to come, the rather lovely water tank etch had been folded up then glued. I covered this in nitromors and was horrified when one end fell off, the half etch fold had been broken, possibly folded then straightened up once too often. having removed all the glue i was able to solder it up reasonably well but a bit of discreet filling will be required.
I have also been able to locate the tank and two 'mounting channels' and prepared the two half etch strips that beef up the bottom channel. Having now run out of decent light, and possibly some patience my next job will be to solder this lot up and hopefully post a picture.
I have been a bit critical of the former owners metal working skills but i do rate his painting and he has offered to finish off the painting and weathering when the model is complete. Should be rather fun as i am from the large hammer school of modelling so the results might be somewhat er, interesting, cheers for now, Rob
Friday saw me picking up the one advertised on RM Web from Rugby on my way to North Wales.
This one has had the body largely completed with painting and weathering and i do think it looks rather good
This has been done to depict the engine shortly before being withdrawn and i reckon he has done a good job of it.
The not so good bit is that he has made a start on the chassis and by his own admission he is not too good with metal, or the soldering of.
Having spent the weekend in Wales i could do little other than read, and re-read Fred's comprehensive instructions and look at the various parts.
Arriving home today i was able to make a bit of a start. Basically the nickel silver chassis had been folded up, rather badly, especially the bottom edges on the middle section which looked like needle nose pliers had been used a bit at a time but worse was to come, the rather lovely water tank etch had been folded up then glued. I covered this in nitromors and was horrified when one end fell off, the half etch fold had been broken, possibly folded then straightened up once too often. having removed all the glue i was able to solder it up reasonably well but a bit of discreet filling will be required.
I have also been able to locate the tank and two 'mounting channels' and prepared the two half etch strips that beef up the bottom channel. Having now run out of decent light, and possibly some patience my next job will be to solder this lot up and hopefully post a picture.
I have been a bit critical of the former owners metal working skills but i do rate his painting and he has offered to finish off the painting and weathering when the model is complete. Should be rather fun as i am from the large hammer school of modelling so the results might be somewhat er, interesting, cheers for now, Rob
