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| colinpeake | 27 May 2009, 10:12 PM |
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One of the things 'missing' from the Shifting Sands stocklist for some time has been a scale British outline loco typical of 15" lines around the UK. There is of course the US outline 'Thunderbolt' but that was only built as a very quick project and doesn't really represent anything in particular. Whilst in an ideal world I would adore a model of a Bassett-Lowke or similar loco but there are various reasons (mostly lack of available suitable mechanisms) why that is currently a non-starter in 7mm scale on 9mm gauge track (O9). The offer earlier this year of a Graham Farish N-gauge 'Duchess' pacific at a discount price set in motion a train of thought (groan!) that had been idle for some time, as I had eyed one of these up some time ago with a particular loco design in mind.... Trevor Guest's two pacifics.... I have kept this project mostly under wraps so far, I wanted to be confident that it could work before unveiling it. The work has been frustrating at time, I've nearly given up on a couple of occasions! Here are a few pictures, the first batch taken in April at the point I had managed to create a boiler and running plate that fitted around the Farish motor. Boiler is 1/2" styrene tube, everything else is from various sheets or sections of styrene:    A few weeks later clearance tests were carried out at Shifting Sands to make sure the loco fitted. More details had been added by this stage:  Bringing the story up to date, some pictures from today, getting the cab looking right has taken some time (and two attempts) to achieve!    Still a fair bit to do, although most of the structural styrene work is done, just about everything else to add is in the form of brass detailing parts, chimney, dome, handrails etc. Oh, and a new smokebox door to replace the A3 one currently fitted  More as the project progresses.... Colin |
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