Hi everyone, just made the jump over to the new forum, so this is my first post.
A project i'm just about to embark upon is the construction of a body to fit on a Roco 0-6-0 tender loco i bought recently.
Here's how it looks now...
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The body i'm thinking of putting on it is something freelance which i'll obviously have to scratchbuild. It will draw inspiration from the Ballymena & Larne compound locos from Ireland. Whilst these were 2-4-2Ts mine will be a 2-6-2T and simply have the lines and appearance of those locos. I'm going to work on a scale drawing of it tonight so expect i'll post it in a day or two.
Looking forward to how things go on the new forum. :)
The drawing has been done, i think i've reached a close representation of the compound locos without being a perfect copy, mine will be a 2-6-2T, so has a more slender appearance.
Scanner's been on the blink at home, i'll try and post it soon if i can get it working again...
I've attached the drawing for the loco, excuse all the notes and bits and bobs round the outside, they're reminders for me.
I think i've managed to capture the feeling of the Irish compounds whilst making it looks suitably dissimilar. Hopefully there will be two named Lewis and Harris after the Scottish islands.
Looks good to me - nicely proportioned.
Thanks Tigger, hoping to make a start on construction if i can summon up enough bravery to hack the chassis a little bit...! Will post some pics when i make a start.
Just got back from ExpoNG and have come back with a Soundtraxx Micro Tsunami sound decoder, i'll be fitting this into the design by using the bunker as a bass box with the speaker facing into the cab. This way there'll be enough room to have the decoder fitted into the tanks, and still (hopefullly) have enough room for lighting to be fitted! ;D
Will post some pics when i've begun experimenting. At the mo it's rather crewdly wired up to my Roco 0-6-0 and blu tac'd to the roof... but it sounds great!! 8)
Hello,
Regards to the use of the Roco outside frame chassis, here is a scratch built body I've made. It's based on a Hunslet loco for the Bolivar railway in South America. It's been used at 2 shows on Avyn-A-Llyin layout, but struggles to haul the longer trains due to lack of weight. I feel reluctant to increae the weight as I've read elsewhere about bearing surfaces wearing so I've left it as is. I'm currently building a 2-6-4t based on locos supplied to the Shadara Railway in India also using a Roco chassis.(//)
That's a nice model! I've wanted to build a model of that prototype for some time now.
I've not progressed anything on the Roco chassis as mine has started to develop some slop in te motion. I've done a very crews anglicising job on it, but won't be doing any more than that now. I'll use a farish 08 for this plan once I've got expong preparations out of the way.