Great British Locomotives Magazine

[S.A.C. Martin]

"Flying Scotsman" could be an inexpensive source of small cutout cabs for anybody looking to convert "Book Law" to late 30s / postwar condition...and of course the bucket seats will also be needed for such a conversion, as well as for correcting ""Flying Foxes" and "Gladiateurs".

Having just destroyed a "Flying Fox" body to get the cab off, I'm now wondering whether I should have waited...

That's what keeps going round in my mind. The cab cut-outs - the handrails will be easy to replace hopefully and removing the deflectors and double chimney should be easy too. Source of body shells good for the late 30s and postwar and repaints all the way to end of steam hopefully.

[Mercator II]

and of course the bucket seats will also be needed...

Sounds like a project part for Graeme and his expanding spare part range

oOo

Brian

[Atlantic 3279]

If Flying Fox was the post 2004 Chinese loco drive model, I don't see how cab removal would be a destructive process. It's only a matter of cracking a few spots of glue looose and unclipping the cab from the boiler.
If working from an older tender-drive model, cab removal ought to still be perfectly possible by suitably careful use of a razor saw. It's equally true to say that if a tender-drive locos bodyshell has been wrecked by cab removal the loss isn't too serious anyway. You can pick up replacement bodies quite cheaply for those if you do your research and/or wait for one at the right price to appear. There are masses of them out there......

[mick b]

Sadly the glue varies on the current bodies , they either fall apart or the exact oppositte . One solution is to cut the bottom cabs slots away from the footplate , rare for the cab to be glued at all to the boiler.

[roverman]

The better half just presented me with the latest issue, bless her, it's a double chimney LMS streamliner. Not sure where that puts it in terms of build dates. Slight mismatch on the gold boiler stripes but otherwise it looks the part, as with the A4 it's based I think on the Hornby China body. Tender wheels swap quite easily for working ones and the loco chassis has some useful looking mouldings for those with a bit of imagination and skill. Hope a Hornby chassis turns up for it soon.

Steve

[Mercator II]

Okay who out bid me on the V2 Coldstreamer earlier!!

I have had a little play at resin casting a tender top for the proposed W1 after the request in classifieds from 2002 for a curved back tender got me thinking, mixed results, the mould is still viable but I am out of practice, the resulting cast has set alittle soft, so in the week another pour will attempted

oOo

Brian

[Saint Johnstoun]

The W1 had a 1928 style corridor tender - we await the arrival of the GBLC Scotsman to see if the tender they provide is capable of upgrading. 10000/60700's tender is still around with 60009!

[greenglade]

Hi all

Just a heads up, I saw issue 2 with the LMS streamliner in Sainbury's yesterday so if you guys have no luck at WHS try there... no good to me as wrong scale. It looked ok if you discount the wheels which i guess you guys would do so anyway in making them running examples.

Regards

Pete

[Mercator II]

The W1 had a 1928 style corridor tender - we await the arrival of the GBLC Scotsman to see if the tender they provide is capable of upgrading. 10000/60700's tender is still around with 60009!

And it was for a short time paired with a nc streamlined tender, which is how my already made variant of the W1 is

What I am planning is another what if plot...

What if it was successful and more of the class where made, so I am planning a w1/1 if you like circa 1935/38 with the larger tender

The livery as yet to be decided

oOo

Brian

[S.A.C. Martin]

A4 Conversion Work

Click the link for more on my work. The Maygib buffers are lovely and I've had no problems thus far. I will only actually fit the buffers once the model is finished and fully painted.

[Atlantic 3279]

First time I've knowingly seen a set of those made up Simon. Glad you managed to get some.

[S.A.C. Martin]

First time I've knowingly seen a set of those made up Simon. Glad you managed to get some.

Thanks Graeme, I rang Branchlines as you suggested and bought some. I have put in a request for some more but Brian from Branchlines who I spoke to was unsure of when more would be in stock.

I've made up all six of my sets, once you've mucked around with one and worked out how it goes together (the diagram provided has one confusing mistake which implies the spring has to be in one piece when the instructions and logic dictate it should be in two pieces) it becomes easy.

They are gems though. I'm very much taken with the quality, and they are in my view better than Hornby's - or will be once fitted purely because they will be more prototypically fitted, with a very nice metal sheen that's not as bright as Hornby's.

[Atlantic 3279]

Some packets of the non-streamlined version of the Spencers that I've assembled also had instructions that misleadingly indicated the spring in one piece (while as you say logic dictates that it has to be divided if you want a proper double action in the buffer), others clearly stated that it should be cut in two. I think I found it more appropriate to cut the spring into thirds, and use only two of the three pieces, otherwise the buffers could be too springy and incapable of full compression. Having two pieces of spring that I could afford to lose turned out to be handy too on at least one occasion - having watched one piece ping off into oblivion, and ending up with one piece whose end was too disttorted for use because I hadn't managed to cut it cleanly....

[S.A.C. Martin]

Just waiting on some tins of paint now…! I'll post some pictures when the primer's on. Suffice to say this whole exercise has made me completely rethink how I set up the A4 Conversion etches, and with some great feedback from other LNER forum members, I think I know what needs to be done now.

Has anyone been able to look closely at the forthcoming 4472 model to see if the cab cutouts and tender sides are rounded or not…?

[mick b]

Photos of the GBL A3 Scotsman version.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index. ... es/page-11