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I have made some more progress on the roof furniture but I have just made the frustrating discovery that I don't have enough gas lamp castings in stock. Literally hundreds of torpedo vents but only 8 gas lamps. So I need to place another order with Wizard... Anyway, with the partially-dressed roof trial fitted, it's starting to look more like a carriage: These vehicles were built with very large torpedo vents and some retained those until the end. But some had them replaced with smaller vents, which were mounted on square plates over the old large holes. So I've had fun plating over the holes, drilling through again, and fitting some small torpedo vents, to represent my prototype 840: Thanks again to Ernie for this photo!
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By Tullygrainey · Posted
Gibson wheels have arrived. The Hunslett is a pretty diminutive loco and the boiler diameter is only 16mm in model form. The High Level coreless motor I was intending to use fits inside ok but would require hacking lumps out of the bottom of the boiler at the back to get it in there when mounted in the chassis. To minimise the amount of surgery needed (I hope), I've ordered a smaller motor. So job parked for now. Here are a couple of the locos already on the grubby shunter roster - a Sentinel 0-4-0 Vertical Boiler steam engine and a Thomas Hill rebuild of the Sentinel into a Vanguard 0-4-0 diesel. Both built from RT Models kits. High Level 4wd bogies and Mashima motors. -
The Tenshodo Motor bogie and 21mm gauge. May I start by saying I've not had a wonderful relationship with the traditional Iron cored motor as used in the older Tenshodo motor bogies, and this combined with only 14:1 gearing was a recipe for poor running (for me anyway), I will say however that the gear sets are spot on for restoring AHM Minitrains HOn30 locos from the 60's & 70's....sorry thread drift and I've not even started yet! In the world of 009 the greatest thing since sliced bread (debatable!) has been the KATO 4 wheel drive chassis (made I believe for N gauge trams and rail buses) to be found under such unlikely bedfellows as Glyn Valley Tram locos all the way to "skirted" Quarry Hunslets, don't get me started. The launch of a new version with a coreless motor gives it even better performance than before. So when I saw that Tenshodo now did a coreless version of their original motor bogies I thought it out to worth a look with a view to converting one to 21mm gauge, so as it comes out of the box and without any "running in" it didn't perform too badly, not quite as good as an N gauge KATO but better than they used to be. Attached should be a couple of photos of one I have done so far, more details and photos will follow in due course but please be patient. John Bruce. -
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Thanks very much, they're fantastic. I'm planning a small cameo based on Askeaton, so the shots of the station there are really helpful. -
Unintentionally watched it about 4 times before I realised it was a loop! Looks and sounds wonderful though!
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