Hobbyhorse Three Green Boxes

[michael mott]

Just finished going through your build wonderful stuff. Humbling to see all the fine details that you have made. I especially appreciate the motion work between the frames. The valve links look like they are steel, is that the case?
Michael

 

[Hobbyhorse]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your kind words.
All the motion work is an optional kit in Nickel Silver, I did consider machining up the valve gear but with the enormity of building 3 kits together I took the easy path.

Simon

 

[King Crab]

Quite a bit of progress this week.
First job was getting all the driving wheels mounted on their axles, and checking all was square and the quartering was OK.
Next the outside frames for the Flower, Duke and Bulldog was assembled onto the main frames, it's a little bit fiddly getting the buffer beams square to the frame being slightly higher.
The last two bogie frames again fairly straightforward in assembling, other than modifying them to accept the new sub frames.
One problem I did encounter was the Duke and Bulldog was riding a bit high, the instructions are a little bit ambiguous about the compensation beams, so after working out the correct height I milled off the top of the bearings to lower the frames.

Simon

I'm playing catch up on this thread.
It's a pleasure to see it all coming together,
but a special treat is spotting all the little jigs and helpers you have,
to make it all accurate and true.
Wonderful to watch!

Peter

 

[Hobbyhorse]

I'm playing catch up on this thread.
It's a pleasure to see it all coming together,
but a special treat is spotting all the little jigs and helpers you have,
to make it all accurate and true.
Wonderful to watch!

Peter

Thanks Peter,

Glad your enjoying the thread.
We’re blessed on WT with some really good modellers, that share the builds with us all.
I think I’ve said it before that my main hobby is the workshop, producing bits to help make building the models easier. If you need any more info I’m happy to help.

Simon

 

[Mike Garwood]

Superb workmanship.

Mike

 

[WM183]

I can see I have been hangin' out with the wrong crowd. My lord that is some amazing machining.

 

[Hobbyhorse]

After sometime managed to get back to the build, starting with the firebox on the bulldog.
As with these kits no problems encountered other that take your time, hopefully should have the boiler assembled later this week.

Simon

 

[Hobbyhorse]

That’s the basic boiler/firebox assembled. One thing I miscounted was the amount of replacement washout plugs required, so spent most of yesterday producing another 2 so that’s the next job fitting them to the firebox.

Simon

 

[Lyndhurstman]

Lovely work, Simon

Cheers

Jan

 

[Hobbyhorse]

Managed to grab a few hours on the Bulldog this week.
Firstly was the firebox to running plate fixings, on the firebox some 1mm plate was cut and formed to fit and spaced out the sides to the correct width. 4 fixings hold this in position with 12ba countersunk screws.



Next was the driving wheel splashers, the sides locate easily but the tops can be tricky, keeping all square was a little time consuming. The fit to these with the firebox is important and a small amount of adjustment was necessary, as having this removable we don’t have the benefit of filling any gaps with solder.


The smokebox saddle was next which is straightforward, it will have some additional fixings added the the running plate, the small gap to the running plate will disappear once fitted.


Lastly the safety valve was adapted to make it removable, same fixing as the previous 2 locos.


Simon

 

[Hobbyhorse]

The Bulldog build is progressing after starting the new layout and some other projects. The plan is to get her to the same state as the other two locos before starting on the tenders.
The cab went together well and was screwed to the boiler, a little bit of adjustment was needed settling the boiler, cab and smokebox to the running plate, its alway needs a bit of extra work to achieve this.
With most of the loco body details on, next is the cab and chassis bits and bobs.

Simon





I've added some fixings to the smokebox as it wasn't sitting well.