Coridor Tender Drawing

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

Looks like a "Roche" drawing to me. They're not always perfect but a good guide. Use that with confirmation of piccies for the details and you should be OK.

[owd sweedy]

Hi BB. You are right it is a Roche drawing done in Sept 1948, although the full drawing sheet also has the front elevation and a split plan view. In the probably long out of print book, "Historic Locomotive Drawings in 4mm Scale", by Ian Allan Ltd.
Cheers,
Owd Sweedy.

[locoian]

Drawing says it is 1" to ft but I have it stored as a TIF file and it could be printed out to any scale you want..


Ian

[EHeaps]

Hi BB. You are right it is a Roche drawing done in Sept 1948, although the full drawing sheet also has the front elevation and a split plan view. In the probably long out of print book, "Historic Locomotive Drawings in 4mm Scale", by Ian Allan Ltd.
Cheers,
Owd Sweedy.

The drawing did indeed feature plan and end views for both locomotive and tender, but I cropped them out to save uploading a massive file to my Google photos account, if anyone's interested I could put the rest of the drawing up as well.

[EHeaps]

Thanks to locoian I have now found the perfect drawing. Thanks for all the help guys!

[Saint Johnstoun]

Here are all the A1/A3 variations in 4mm scale.

LNER A1 and A3 Tenders.doc

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[silverfox]

SJ
all i get is a massive page of hyroglyphics. Could you repost in another format?

[Saint Johnstoun]

The drawings are imposed in a word file - you need to open in Microsoft Word.

[EHeaps]

Using the drawings from locoian and Saint Johnstoun, I have now created all 3 tender variations I need.
Thanks again guys!







Still more do to before the drawings are finished, but they're starting to get close now...

[60800]

What did you use for the curved text on the nameplates?

[EHeaps]

What did you use for the curved text on the nameplates?

It's a text layer in Photoshop Elements (the programme I've used for the whole drawing).

[60800]

Photoshop isn't really an option for me, but thanks anyway
I'll just have to keep looking for text for my A1/A3 nameplates

[Saint Johnstoun]

Pictures still look like those from a child's illustrated book as they lack the detail necessary to be convincing. It would be nice if folks would ask before defacing my drawings or using them to create their own less convincing images.

[EHeaps]

I don't want to get into an argument, but...

Pictures still look like those from a child's illustrated book

That's largely the point, they're not supposed to be modellers scale drawings.

as they lack the detail necessary to be convincing.

Actually the full resolution version (around 2000x9000) pixels contains as much of the detail from drawings and photographs as I could fit in, and there is more to be added.

It would be nice if folks would ask before defacing my drawings or using them to create their own less convincing images.

I would hardly say I had "defaced" your drawings, merely used one of them as a guide, and if you didn't want your drawings to be used in this way, why did you answer my request in the first place?

[2512silverfox]

Saint Johnstoun wrote:
Pictures still look like those from a child's illustrated book
as they lack the detail necessary to be convincing.

I think St J has a point - plus there are glaring errors and omissions. I think I would rather have a very clear traditional drawing and/or a photograph of a correctly painted model. Even the Elegant Steam illustrations have that children's book quality about them.

The only people who ever produced really convincing broadside coloured illustrations of LNER locomotives were Geoffrey Wheeler, David Warner (Profile pubs) and Stuart Black, all of whom I believe worked in gouache.