RTR-Bash/Mod in O Gauge.

Discussion in 'Kits, Kit bashes & Scratch builds' started by hartleymartin, Jun 14, 2019.

  1. paul_l

    paul_l Staff Member Administrator

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    Very nice - 7mm space saver mmmmmmm
     
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    Cab details coming along. I now think I don't need windows in the side doors. For a dinky critter loco, it has quite a big cab, works out as 7ft x 7ft interior in scale. I would have liked to make it a little smaller, but the chassis block and motor determined this for me. The body is actually a friction fit over the chassis block, using several sections inside the cab at floor level to pack in the gaps, but also add some rigidity to the structure. Turns out I actually used 30 thou styrene for the front and rear sheets instead of 40 thou. A couple of 10 thou strips added to the sides and across the rear make it look a little more realistic I think. No prototype as such, just doing it as a sketch of a little critter loco.

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    It seems to sit well in proportion to my not-quite-a-CHG brake van.

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    Just realised that I put the window sections in backwards! The pane with the cross-strut should be at the front of the cab! Nevermind, can always cut it out and use some styrene strip to put it in the right place.
     
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    Two light coats of Tamiya Grey primer went on today. I think it looks good. I also think that windows in the cab doors are unnecessary after seeing it like this. The decorative strips of 10thou strip on the cab sides hide the join between the Atlas cab side section and the new styrene. Just have to sort out some handles for the cab doors and hood doors. On one of my other diesels I used some castings from the O-Aust 48 class kit which were available as separate parts some years ago, but not sure if I can still get them.

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    The project went into the spares bin after I tried some Humbrol spray acrylic and it went badly. Making matters worse, the chassis went AWOL some time in 2019. In other news, I managed to purchase four more of the Atlas Plymouth switchers as a job lot and I am just waiting for them to arrive from the USA. Now that I know how to use an airbrush (at a beginner level anyway) I can do a much better job painting it.
     
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    Shame it was making nice progress, although I was a little unsure about the apex roof ? I would have thought a curved roof was more fitting, but hey, your model and I don’t know your background story (the owner may have had to facilitate repairs/replacement etc)

    I have a Lima loco shunted somewhere that I made look more UK style and fitted a UK style shunted cab (based on an 04 class desk) and once painted BR green with cycling lions looked the part. Sadly, it never saw much use and sits in my dads Garage for the last 25 years.
     
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    I saved the bonnet section. It went into a bath of simple green which didn't do much, but Bondall Water-based turps loosened it enough that I was able to scrub it off. Strangely, it didn't work on the cab. I was sort of going for a look similar to this Royal Navy Planet Diesel:

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    Ah! I’ve been there today where that was photographed at! My dad was the station master
     
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    I managed to purchase a job lot of four Atlas WDT Plymouth Switchers off the flea-bay. I plan on doing another project cutting down the Atlas 0-6-0 diesel switcher into an 0-4-0 once again!
     
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    I've done a bit of a kit-bash to turn a couple of LNER 12t vans into the Wolgan Valley Railway (run by the Commonwealth Oil Corporation) Van No. 114 "Black Maria."

    LINK: https://collection.maas.museum/object/367684

    The choice of bogies here was not a success and others will be used.

    The prototype was a conversion of a bogie open "Dreadnought" wagon for goods that required to be kept covered and secure. The Wolgan Valley Railway was a shale oil line which (rather unusual for Australia) used large standard gauge Shay type locomotives. My model is under scale length, although arguable about right for 1:48 scale. I am not overly worried as this is a "representation" rather than a scale model. My only issue now is where to get an O gauge 2-rail Shay that won't require me to sell any redundant organs...

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    I have a rather "sad" Ixion Hudswell Clarke in my collection. It was a spare engine which had become a source of spares for some other Hudswell Clarke locomotives, three of which have since gone on to new owners. Well, one went back to its original owner when it became sadly missed. I had strongly considered converting it into a side-tank version. There is a build thread on RMweb from some years back where one is converted into a near-enough MSC Canal Class short-tank variety. I was going through some of my old notes and I found Hudswell Clarke B/N. 1007 of 1912, which became NSW Public Works Department No.30

    I have no known dimensions for this locomotive other than 37" wheels and 12"x18" cylinders. There were a couple of other HCs owned by the NSW-PWD, but they were both larger than this one. If I do a side-tank conversion with my Ixion Hudswell Clarke, it will probably be about 10% too big overall, but I should be able to use some off-the-shelf components like a GWR 14xx chimney, dome, smokebox door.

    I have done what I am calling a "Rough Drawing" or "Conjectured Diagram" of 1007. I think she was definitely smaller than the MSC Sweden or Canal types, and my own model will be over-sized, but it is weirdly a project that is calling out to me in some way. The notes I have found say that she was overall plain black after the overhaul 1938-1941.

    The prototype was scrapped in 1955.

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