7mm Mickoo's Commercial Workbench
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. Never done that
mickoo
Western Thunderer
H38 all finished, well it was until I noticed that I've managed to bugger up one of the coach number decals whilst fitting the glazing. New ones in the post shortly 
Cab roof access handrails will be fitted by the customer, as will interior seating etc.
Etches designed and built by myself, paint and weathering by Warren Heywood, bogies unknown source (supplied by client). Ragstone Dynamo, regulator box, brake cylinders, buffers; corridor connectors unknown source (supplied by client), clam shell vents I think are also Ragstone.
Roof, extruded aluminium unknown source (client suppied)
Kitchen vents, gas tanks, battery boxes are home grown 3D prints.
The white sheet shots made all the glazing look opaque, blue grid sheet shots to show they're not
Cab roof access handrails will be fitted by the customer, as will interior seating etc.
Etches designed and built by myself, paint and weathering by Warren Heywood, bogies unknown source (supplied by client). Ragstone Dynamo, regulator box, brake cylinders, buffers; corridor connectors unknown source (supplied by client), clam shell vents I think are also Ragstone.
Roof, extruded aluminium unknown source (client suppied)
Kitchen vents, gas tanks, battery boxes are home grown 3D prints.
The white sheet shots made all the glazing look opaque, blue grid sheet shots to show they're not
oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Hi Mick.
Please keep us up to date with the King Arthur in particular. I'll be so interested to compare it with mine. Straight out of the box.
If you want to look at the prototype in bits you know where to come.....
Best.
Brian
Please keep us up to date with the King Arthur in particular. I'll be so interested to compare it with mine. Straight out of the box.
If you want to look at the prototype in bits you know where to come.....
Best.
Brian
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Brian, I've actually got two to build (one already here for next year and one in the post for starting this weekend); there's also a rebuilt Royal Scot later in the year after the LMS Garratt.Hi Mick.
Please keep us up to date with the King Arthur in particular. I'll be so interested to compare it with mine. Straight out of the box.
If you want to look at the prototype in bits you know where to come.....
Best.
Brian
The photo shoot would be handy....... and I do need to get a crack on with the etches from the photo shoot we did last time, as soon as NRM opens I need to order the frame and stay drawings.
Lancastrian
Western Thunderer
Psssst, Search Engine is open Thursday to Saturday by appointment only, with copy service facility fully re-opened 
Ian
Ian
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Excellent, I dont actually have to visit as I have the drawings list already and they're all on fiche.Psssst, Search Engine is open Thursday to Saturday by appointment only, with copy service facility fully re-opened
Ian
The visit would be to just check some of the drawings for 100% suitable use, but when you take into account seven hours of driving and a near full tank of fuel, it's cheaper to just order and hope they're a near hit.
Len Cattley
Western Thunderer
Mikoo if you need any drawings for the Rebuilt Royal Scot let my know as I have the drawings from the NRM?
Len
Lancastrian
Western Thunderer
Mick,
The question is then, what is the tender going behind ?
Ian
The question is then, what is the tender going behind ?
Ian
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Already answered above in the brake and bogie render posts, but for completeness, MR 3 cylinder compound 2632, I may also do 2634 with the flat footplate as well.
I was never a big Edwardian/Victorian engine fan but having photo'd a few for Nick and built the MOK Armstrong, I cannot deny that once fully painted with all the polished bright work, they do look very good. Unlike the GWR I think MR bright work is steel which is perfect as my preferred base material is nickel silver.
This was supposed to be a simple commission job, but I have kind of got carried away
. I've also just realised the image above has a lot missing as I've not combined the front and rear layers so some rather large blank spaces.Must confess to already looking forward to drawing up and printing the cylinder block and I do have a strong urge to see what one would look like in 1:32
adrian
Flying Squad
Must confess to already looking forward to drawing up and printing the cylinder block and I do have a strong urge to see what one would look like in 1:32
or slightly larger.
Built by Bob Moore - unfortunately cropped in this photo but on the right holding the funnel. IIRC this was at Nottingham MES and the loco is now in the NRM at York.
warren haywood
Western Thunderer
Mick, the splasher beading etc is still brass.Already answered above in the brake and bogie render posts, but for completeness, MR 3 cylinder compound 2632, I may also do 2634 with the flat footplate as well.
I was never a big Edwardian/Victorian engine fan but having photo'd a few for Nick and built the MOK Armstrong, I cannot deny that once fully painted with all the polished bright work, they do look very good. Unlike the GWR I think MR bright work is steel which is perfect as my preferred base material is nickel silver.
This was supposed to be a simple commission job, but I have kind of got carried away
Must confess to already looking forward to drawing up and printing the cylinder block and I do have a strong urge to see what one would look like in 1:32
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Yes, I've just researched that, no problem I'll run up a bespoke brass sheet with those bits on, cab front spectacle plates are brass too, but only the centre ones, outer ones are crimson.
It's going to look smart for sure
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Nice, very nice in factor slightly larger.
View attachment 134768
, they look so much more purposeful with that big bogie tender Nice, very nice in fact
Yes. Indeed!! The Midland Record number 10 and LMS Locomotive Profiles Number 13 The Standard Compounds do these locomotives justice!!
Peter
Crimson Rambler
Western Thunderer
The article in Midland Record No. 10 and the nearly the whole of the LMS Loco Profile No.13 was written by my good friend of long standing David Hunt.
Perhaps more recently better known for his writings, he is in fact a very good modeller - good enough for example to win a gold medal at the Model Engineer Exhibition about thirty years ago with, as it happens, a model of one of Mr Johnson's Compounds - No.2633 the first of the second batch.
It's built to S7 standards with the two photos appearing below having been taken on his layout currently building and taken, in proper Midland fashion, in front of a coaling stage!
Crimson Rambler
Perhaps more recently better known for his writings, he is in fact a very good modeller - good enough for example to win a gold medal at the Model Engineer Exhibition about thirty years ago with, as it happens, a model of one of Mr Johnson's Compounds - No.2633 the first of the second batch.
It's built to S7 standards with the two photos appearing below having been taken on his layout currently building and taken, in proper Midland fashion, in front of a coaling stage!
Crimson Rambler
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Very nice
What's thrown me now is the tender Vac pipe, the model shows it on the left of the draw bar, yet, unless I'm reading the GA incorrectly (highly probable) it's on the right.
LarryG
Western Thunderer
Glad to see the cream lining on David Hunt's Compound ran along the base of the splasher and cab side panel and not on the raised beading. It took me a while to discover what was going on along the bottom of the Tender side back in the 1970's because we didn't have the knowledge that there is today. The lining was on the beading on the Tender, as David's model shows. That's a lovely model and to my eyes accustomed to muck & grime it, looks more workmanlike with accumulated dust