GW 850 class Pannier build

Now flood the back of the work around the splayed ends of the wire making sure solder flows into the holes, this will capture the wires but make sure each wire sits correctly before soldering.

 

Solder flows into the holes and captures the wires in place like thus.

 

Now the back of the work piece can be filed flat removing the excess solder and the splayed wires, the wire is quite solid now.

 

And from the back and with the bunker bulkhead and coal hatch complete and ready for fitting tomorrow. I've pressed out the rivet detail on the bunker wrapper, I just need to bend and shape it ready for fitting together as an assembly. Forming the wires and fettling them took about three hours this afternoon.

 

Cheers Paul, yes I have PPE in the workshop and plenty of cleaning fluid... haven't you seen the pictures of bar Keepers Friend in the background. I can't make 300 miles but York is far enough away for me... next build will be a nice LMS loco ... not sure which one to buy in yet.

 

Cheers Toto, this is the sort of little job I enjoy when building kits, time consuming indeed but make the model.

 

Yes the Great Northern and Southern Railway livery it carried, that loco is an early version 57XX pannier which originally had an open cab ... you can see where the lineage from the 850 class comes from. As yet I haven't decided which livery to do mine in... any suggestions ? I do fancy early BR cycling lion in black... LUT never had any of these so the Crimson red is out.

 

Maybe it got lost, driver drops the loco off at the wrong shed late on a Friday night, and some enthusiastic mischievious painter decides to change its allegence, just in time for the driver to find it early on Monday morning, and too dark to notice dark green had turned to red.

or

Bill (Sir William to you), sends a shipment of paint to his old employer to help them through a shortage

See it's easy to justify

Paul[/QUOTE]
Do we have a justification to turn it out in Corporate Rail Blue ?

 

Really I didn't know that Pete... was it full Apple Green or Black ?

 

Now that was some bevvy, Park it on the Friday evening and return 30 years later to pick it up I think more likely a rust coulour than rail blue, unless it was really cold.

Paul[/QUOTE]
I've got it Dundee... it became a heritage loco for DB Schenker, so we can paint it red.

 

I've seen pics of these engines with the GWR button logo and plain GW tank side initials, they were the open cab versions with Dean bunker. I think black is favourite and heavily weathered at the moment.