Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
I have a dormant thread on building a JLTRT LMS 10001 (click here to read it so far). That build has stalled for a couple of reasons, but I hope it might kick back into life soon.
To save some repetition, you can see the box contents and other interesting stuff on that thread. Suffice to say the other build is for 10001 in about 1953, just after it arrived on the Southern Region, while this build is the same loco but in 1948. It may prove instructive to see what differences occurred in the time between first emerging from Derby Works to the time on Southern metals.
Differences in the builds come down to the addition of electronics in this one. As an as-built representation of the loco, it will be paired with 10000 by its owner. In order that both will run more or less as expected when in multiple, I've been asked to rebuild the power bogie of his existing 10000 model, and match the DCC for both. More on that in due course, I suspect.
To begin with, I settled in for a spell of armchair modelling. Well, it was more a "spread it all out on the workbench with references" session.
The kits from JLTRT cover both locos in "early" and "late" configurations. Out of the box they make into attractive and reasonably accurate representations. For the true pioneer diesel nerd, though, there are areas that need attention if we want it "just like the real thing".
The worst area is the roof casting. The engine room access hatches are moulded as symmetrical when they are not. There's a fair amount of surgery involved to rectify that, so I'm inclined to leave well alone. The boiler room vent panels, and boiler vent need reworking, as well as some screwed plates at that end. Some new vents need making for the fuel filler overflow, and some more screwed plates around the cooling fan.
On the body sides, the lower skirt panel lines need scribing in. There are two access panels on the No2 left hand side, below the boiler room grille.
For the noses, the raised waist strip needs to be trimmed back in front of the cab doors. The triangular plates for the SR lamp brackets need to be removed. The gangway door hinges need to be modified. I have a feeling the side blower access panels are not as flush they could be, but again that's serious surgery I'm inclined to overlook. The MU connector area is not quite correct, but this may be hard to rectify.
There is a shore supply box fitted to the battery box area, and I need to check the bogie suspension is correct, or correctable. I will also remove the large cast equipment cabinet from the No2 end bulkhead. As explained in the other thread, this equipment was moved into the clean air environment of the engine room itself on 10001.
So, a fair amount to do. I think I shall kick things off with getting the bogies built up and powered.
To save some repetition, you can see the box contents and other interesting stuff on that thread. Suffice to say the other build is for 10001 in about 1953, just after it arrived on the Southern Region, while this build is the same loco but in 1948. It may prove instructive to see what differences occurred in the time between first emerging from Derby Works to the time on Southern metals.
Differences in the builds come down to the addition of electronics in this one. As an as-built representation of the loco, it will be paired with 10000 by its owner. In order that both will run more or less as expected when in multiple, I've been asked to rebuild the power bogie of his existing 10000 model, and match the DCC for both. More on that in due course, I suspect.
To begin with, I settled in for a spell of armchair modelling. Well, it was more a "spread it all out on the workbench with references" session.
The kits from JLTRT cover both locos in "early" and "late" configurations. Out of the box they make into attractive and reasonably accurate representations. For the true pioneer diesel nerd, though, there are areas that need attention if we want it "just like the real thing".
The worst area is the roof casting. The engine room access hatches are moulded as symmetrical when they are not. There's a fair amount of surgery involved to rectify that, so I'm inclined to leave well alone. The boiler room vent panels, and boiler vent need reworking, as well as some screwed plates at that end. Some new vents need making for the fuel filler overflow, and some more screwed plates around the cooling fan.
On the body sides, the lower skirt panel lines need scribing in. There are two access panels on the No2 left hand side, below the boiler room grille.
For the noses, the raised waist strip needs to be trimmed back in front of the cab doors. The triangular plates for the SR lamp brackets need to be removed. The gangway door hinges need to be modified. I have a feeling the side blower access panels are not as flush they could be, but again that's serious surgery I'm inclined to overlook. The MU connector area is not quite correct, but this may be hard to rectify.
There is a shore supply box fitted to the battery box area, and I need to check the bogie suspension is correct, or correctable. I will also remove the large cast equipment cabinet from the No2 end bulkhead. As explained in the other thread, this equipment was moved into the clean air environment of the engine room itself on 10001.
So, a fair amount to do. I think I shall kick things off with getting the bogies built up and powered.
I shall have a good think about the power train when I get back. We off out to a local model engineering supplies company to stock up on sheet and strip metal.
