Rebuilt Patriot

No Andy I haven't asked preferring to build my own stuff.

 

Ah but Andy... working this one right and we have another loco for the Leek layout... assuming I live that long of course

 

Good plan there Rob... maybe when speaking again with Dave it might be possible to offer different tender types on these Rebuild Class 7 locos as he does with the 8F kits. Interesting what research actually does throw up tho.

 

Rob I can confirm that The Duke of Wellington Regiment (West Riding) which was rebuilt by the LMS in 1944 ran with a rivetted tender, I have a photo of this engine taken at Manchester London Road in 1948, the loco is wearing an experimental livery with LMS on the tender sides and Gill Sans typeset number on the cab 46145. I'll take a picture for you tomorrow when there is good daylight.

 

I believe that 45530 (Patriot) and 46132 ran with welded tenders towards the end of their respective service lives, generally my research shows that of the Rebuilt Class 7 Royal Scots nearly all of them ran with rivetted tenders. The main differences visually between the rebuilds were the earlier style cabs and rear mounted sandboxes on the Scots whereas the Patriots had later Stanier cabs and individual sand boxes fitted below the running plate.

 

Here you go Rob... how about this one for an unusual livery combination?

 

Loco now with a coat of grey primer, the tender will have to wait awhile. The pipe running along the side valance of the footplate is the AWS conduit circuit which was scratch made from 0.35mm wire and some very fine scrap etch off cuts.

 

Well the rebuild was undertaken in 1944 if that helps.

 

https://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?media/45531-rod-and-valve-motion-testing.15635/

Sir Frederick Harrison first time running on the test bed... now to wire up in DC before converting to DCC later on.

 

Thanks Kimbo... still needs to be wired up onto the pick ups and to have wipers fitted onto the tender... this Gladiator kit is a good design build with little or no trimming needed. The firebox design is a tad old fashioned (its the old school front lamination with inner solder seams then file to shape, works well and in many cases I'd argue probably better than a front firebox casting as per some of the Scorpio builds I've done.

cheers Paul

 

Paul I am absolutely convinced your two builds will turn out as mint I'll certainly be following your build reports as they happen.

cheers Paul