I will be building a Festiniog Railway 0-4-0 Loco 'Prince' & Tender to run with my F&WHR Peco rolling stock
the loco kit is n on its way from Parkside
& arrived in todays post was a Fleischmann Piccolo 7000 2nd hand on ebay it looks not to have had much running & runs nice & slow
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Good choice of chassis, I used the same chassis under the old 1960
The kit is in hand
The casting need some cleaning up before work can start
& once built here's the stock the loco will pull
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If my trapped nerve will allow me later to day when I get up I hope with Deans help make a start chopping the chassis to shape & start on the body
Now a cup of Hot Chocolate then Bed
Still nothing done apart from ordering A set of 4mm Princess plates from the F&WHR shop
Making a start
1st I have removed the lower cob front to allow the motor to fit
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I am also removing the doors from the cab back sheet
More to follow
I have now cut out the door & solded the end & 2 sides together
I then removed some of the plastic from the front Fleischmann Piccolo 7000 chassis As well as the front buffer I hav left the ones on the back of the chassi in place
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I then removed some of the casting from the front footplate
so the loco's body will sit low on the chassis
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I then solded this to the body & filled the hole left under were the sand pots go with a scrap piece of white metal & flooded with solder
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I then worked on the cob foot plate removing a lot of it all the way back so the hole to mount the coupling was just gone
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& solded in place
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Now with the body fitted to the chassis the bottom of the smokebox sits on the step on the plastic part of the chassis & the back buffers of the chassis sit under the floor
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I then added a large scrap piece of white metal in to the smokebox so I can screw the chassis to the body
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the loco is now ready for painting the holes for the sand pots have been drilled these & the front vac pipe will be fitted once the painting is done
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As to the tender I am using a Minitrains F&C coach bogie that I have spare from a F&C 0-4-0 tender I have to hand the wheel base is the same & look almost right
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That's it for today
the tender footplate is now in black & the bodys are now in Maroon
just masked off the loco & tender & given them a coat of Halfords matt black
It's looking good, Brian!
David.
Here is how things were at 10.30am today
loco with the masking taken off still need to hand paint the black edges on the loco fit the smokebox dart & paint the chassis
need to get some handrail knobs so I can add handrails & fit some couplings
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& here's some quick photos of the loco as it is now still need the handrails
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Excellent work Brian and so quick as well! I am very envious!
Mick
Quote from: MickT on February 22, 2016, 13:30
Excellent work Brian and so quick as well! I am very envious!
Mick
Don't for get Building kits is my full time Job
last lot of photos till I add handrails
looking at the photos the body is not siting on the chassis properly I have now put this right
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At the weekends York show I picked up some handrail knobs so the loco is now finished
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