Evening All,
Hope all is well.
I have another query to put forward!
I have the Dundas models Hunslet 'Linda' with tender kit to build, and I have by some miracle acquired a Ibertren cuckoo chassis for it. (This is the chassis the instructions recommend.)
That being said, a decade or so ago you could get a RTR chassis specific for the Hunslet sold by Dundas produced by Mike Chinnery? Does anyone know of any available anywhere, or maybe someone has one they may be willing to part with? Seems these chassis are virtually non existent as well!
Best wishes
Andy
Probably looking for a needle in a haystack, but God loves a trier.
Depending on your skills, you can change the axles by using silver steel and making them longer and changing to outside frames.
As a model, these locos only look right if they match the prototype.
or
You could sell the kit and chassis with the money going towards the purchase of the Bachmann Linda.
Stan.
As far as I can recall the Mike Chinnery chassis were sold along with the body kit, not as a seperate item.
So if you do find one for sale it will probably come with the body as well.
These were selling for more than £150 second hand, but now the Bachmann item is available this may be somewhat less.
I have sent you a PM.
Your Ibertren, in good, as new, condition is worth about £55. (They were £5 when new!)
The Linda kits are now selling for £58.95 new. However, second hand value may have gone down a lot now.
An additional chassis option was the kit sold by Golden Arrow Models.
This consisted of etched side frames, spacers and motion. I'm sure it didn't come with the motor or gears (from memory Farish worm & wheel were suggested). I can't be sure about the wheels either as the one I have part-built has wheels which came from Golden Arrow, but may have been an additional purchase.
They are not listed on the current website (http://www.goldenarrow.me.uk/products.htm#narrow) but it might be worth dropping them an e-mail in case there are any lurking in a cupboard somewhere, and again they may pop up as second hand items (people moving them on having got a Bachman RTR model) on eBay and the like.
Whilst selling what you have might raise something towards the Bachmann I suspect the cost of the body kit on the 2nd hand market will be depressed after Bachmann's release, and the same could be said of the chassis kit options and the Backwoods Miniatures etched kit.
As others have suggested selling the Ibertren chassis could be helpful, but only really if it has been unmodified. It may be useful to retain it for one of the many other body kits that use the same chassis (or even a scratch built body), especially given the effort that may have gone into sourcing the chassis in the first place.
Just looking back over this thread, I am certain that Andrew H., changed the Ladies kits to accept the Malcolm Savage/Mike Chinnery
chassis.
So if you have an original kit, yes the Ibertren chassis is correct, but you may have to alter the body kit it you get hold of one of the
Savage/Chinnery chassis kits.
As I said early, these locos look awful if left as an inside frame loco.
Stan.
Quote from: JulienW on January 17, 2023, 10:42
An additional chassis option was the kit sold by Golden Arrow Models.
This consisted of etched side frames, spacers and motion. I'm sure it didn't come with the motor or gears (from memory Farish worm & wheel were suggested). I can't be sure about the wheels either as the one I have part-built has wheels which came from Golden Arrow, but may have been an additional purchase.
Yes I think you are correct that the wheels were not part of the kit, they were from another supplier and as far as I know they are no longer available.
Also I do not think the Graham Farrish gears listed are available anymore, and even the recomended motor may not be available!!
The above reasons may be why it is no longer listed on the Golden Arrow website?
Time has moved on somewhat!!
Hi all,
Thanks for the input, greatly appreciate it. I had considered just selling the kit and the chassis to go toward the new Bachmann RTR model, but if you ask me, takes the fun out of building and painting a locomotive yourself.
I'm probably going to stow the kit in the 'nice to do someday' box for now and keep the Cuckoo chassis for another project. I have however discovered I have have a Branchlines Hawk chassis tucked away in a Meridian Models Fletcher Jennings kit I forgot I bought a while ago. Just out of curiosity, would this be a suitable donor maybe? Hard to tell as I've not built it yet.
Thanks
Andy
From memory the Hawk chassis is chunky and perhaps more suited to 09 than 009.
Quote from: Andy Robinson on January 17, 2023, 18:59
Hi all,
Thanks for the input, greatly appreciate it. I had considered just selling the kit and the chassis to go toward the new Bachmann RTR model, but if you ask me, takes the fun out of building and painting a locomotive yourself.
I'm with you on that one!
Quote from: Andy Robinson on January 17, 2023, 18:59
I'm probably going to stow the kit in the 'nice to do someday' box for now and keep the Cuckoo chassis for another project. I have however discovered I have have a Branchlines Hawk chassis tucked away in a Meridian Models Fletcher Jennings kit I forgot I bought a while ago. Just out of curiosity, would this be a suitable donor maybe? Hard to tell as I've not built it yet.
Thanks
Andy
From memory the Meridian kit was designed to take the Ibertren 0-4-0...
Quote from: GraemeD on January 17, 2023, 20:57
From memory the Hawk chassis is chunky and perhaps more suited to 09 than 009.
The Branchlines Hawk has quite a big wheelbase and wheel diameter - something like 20mm and 12mm respectively (to compare the Ibertren is something like 16mm and 6mm). This makes it a bit big for the 'normal' 009 loco, say a small industrial tank loco, but I've seen a Langley Lyn 2-4-2 Baldwin built on one and have a pair of Hawks myself with the aim of making a Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 2-4-0+0-4-2 Garratt.
The Branchlines Hawk chassis was used in the replica Craig and Mertonford locos Ian and Joan. As they are big by 009 standards the chassis do not look out of place.
Julien the 'original' Joan in the the Heritage Collection may be on a Hawk chassis.
Malcolm
Thanks Malcolm, I'll check that out.
Rod used a modified Hawk chassis for the C & M loco 'Ian' but for all the 'Joan' locos he had a special chassis etched.
Rodney
Quote from: Rodney S on January 20, 2023, 18:50
Rod used a modified Hawk chassis for the C & M loco 'Ian' but for all the 'Joan' locos he had a special chassis etched.
Rodney
You beat me to it Rodney. I've just had it confirmed by Rod that it was a special chassis etch for Joan. I should have checked my own replicas of Joan before posting my original message!😕
To go back to the original subject I have been developing a chassis for the Dundas kit which, with wonderful timing, I am just starting to produce, it will come with outside frames, different cylinders to suit Linda or Blanche and as a 0-4-0 or 0-4-2. Having put in so much effort to get it right it will continue to be made despite the arrival for the Bachmann model, Nev
Hi Neville,
This has certainly piqued my interest. As Stan Williams rightly put it, these locos only look right if they match the prototype and using a donor Ibertren chassis or similar wouldn't do the kit justice.
Also good timing, but bad fortune there was a Mike Chinnery chassis on eBay, bodykit already built onto the loco. Sadly I was outbid in the last few seconds.
Thanks
Andy